trothed to Laska, loves Bethlen, follows than in the later preceding publications nature at the conclusion. mother Sarolta. waters a a I And find their way in darkness! Would that believes Its object as immortal as itself! Had been borne off -Alas! he did return And poised there on a bird so bold- And thus he sung : « Adieu! adieu! We must away; Far, far away! To day! to day! Having fairly laid before our readers specimens of the excellent and the indifferent in this production, we shall only tive perusal of the work itself, agree with add, that if they do not, upon these extracts, we think they will, upon the attenthe author's devoting his powers to a less us, that it affords strong presumption of objectionable system than he has hitherto pursued, and is calculated to make those critics pause, who have been unqualified in their condemnation of his poetical attempts, by clearly proving the existence. of genius, which may be misdirected, but cannot be denied. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE in H.M.S. ALCESTE, to the Yellow Sea, along the rous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Coast of Corea, and through its numeIsland of Lew-chew; with an Account of her Shipwretk in the Straits of Gaspar. 8vo. pp. 288. (Concluded from our last.) By John McLeod, surgeon of the Alceste. Of the second part we cannot, in justice, speak so favourably as of the first, which seems to have been struck off in a heat with many happy conceptions, while its successor is more cold, laboured, metaphysical, and uninteresting. Many of the thoughts are far-fetched; the pseuThe Narrative proceeds to detail many do-humorous scenes rather dull; Glymore highly interesting particulars of the cine's simplicity absolute silliness; and But she happy Lew-Chewans, which form a picKiuprili and Zapolya's inspirations occature resembling the golden age, nearer the sionally absolute raving. Nor can our There is a strange mixture in the above. realization of that fable than we imagined industry detect as numerous redeeming The miserable metaphor of the ground-sible to exist in our own time. Their possible at any period, and still less posbeauties as a set-off to this account. swell, pushed to its utmost limit, and conduct at the funeral of a seaman who We will except, however, the following finding mirrors in sunshine, may well be died there, was simple and affecting, and new and exquisite image of Hope. contrasted with the admirable impatient is simply and affectingly related. They Hope draws towards itself expression of hope in the son, and Sa- burn their own dead, but assisted in in the lines we have put in italics. rolta's fine explication of the principle burying and erecting a tomb-stone to the had noted several passages to illustrate thy and respectful sorrow. We British sailor, with every mark of sympasuch blame as we have unwillingly at-time, when Capt. Maxwell fractured and tached to the execution of this dramatic dislocated his finger, the physicians of poem; but considering it upon the whole Lew-chew attended him with great solias a production evincing high talent, and citude. They were allowed to undertake of merits over those defects which we gladly observing the great predominancy feared would never be eradicated from this gentleman's writings, we refrain from the disagreeable task of copying them. One will suffice:-a girl shooting an assassin with an arrow is thus hyperbolically and The flame with which it kindles ; and the following picture, which (addressing Sarolta,) Bethlen draws to himself, on hearing that he was found an infant beside a wounded mother Eyes fair as thine Have gazed on me with tears of love and anguish, scious; And tones of anxious fondness, passionate pray ers sooth'd A mother's ear, lisping a mother's name! It will not, we think, be denied, that incomprehensibly described. some of our quotations bear the true 'Twas as a vision blazoned on a clond stamp of poetic feeling and genius; that By lightning, shaped into a passionate scheme they must leaven the mass of mere com- Of life and death! mon-place, and weigh against those. cherished abstractions which are scarce rational. And we rejoice to find that fewer lapses of this kind occur in Zapolya first of two songs equally silly. ex. From sky to earth it slanted; with this surgeon, and another more in the At the time appointed, one of the Chiefs, character of a physician, and their retinue, their appearance along-side. The injury some of them bearing a medicine-chest, made being again examined, a fowl was killed sition of flour and eggs, with some warm with much form, and skinned, and a compoingredients, about the consistence of dough, was put round the fractured part, (which had the effect of retaining it in its position,) and the whole enclosed in the skin of a fowl. As They burn the bodies of their dead, and deposit their bones in urns, (at least in our neighbourhood), in natural vaults, or caverns of the rocks along the sea-shore. The graves of the few Chinese residents here are formed in their own style. them was particularly described. Their | of government are in their own, or Japanese Crimes are said to be very unfrequent His chest was extremely neat, its exterior japanned black, and a number of partitions in it, again subdivided, so as to contain about a hundred and eighty different articles, (quite enough, in all conscience, even among the greatest hypochondriacs and drug-swallowers); but they were fortunately all simples, being a collection of wood shavings, roots, seeds, and dried flowers, of his own country. There appeared also some ginseng, a product of Tartary and Corea, much in vogue in these parts. Small portions of the specified articles were measured out with a silver spatula, and put up in little parcels, and directions were now issued as to the mode of boiling and drinking the decoction. Next day they were highly delighted to hear the good effect of their medicines, though they had never been taken, (as many a poor doctor is cheated by cunning patients); and a new application was brought for the finger, corresponding stature. termed a fish-poultice, so composed as to look, and indeed to smell, something like currant-jelly. The Lewchews are a very small race of The people of Tatao and the north-east people, the average height of the men not islands are reported to have been in possesexceeding five feet two inches at the utmost sion of books previous to the Chinese attack Almost the whole animal creation here is of on Grand Lewchew, and to have been even diminutive size, but all excellent in their more polished than in the principal island. kind. Their bullocks seldom weighed more Tatao and Ki-ki-ai are said to produce a sort than 350lbs., but they were plump and well-of cedar, termed kien-mou by the Chinese, conditioned, and the beef very fine; their and iseki by the inhabitants, which is congoats and pigs were reduced in the same sidered incorruptible, and brings a great proportion, their poultry seeming to form the price, the columns of the palaces of the only exception. However small the men grandees being generally formed of it. might be, they were sturdy, well-built, and athletic. The ladies we had no opportunity of measuring, but they appeared to be of A Chief of high rank came on board the Alceste on the 24th October, whom his own people saluted by kneeling, These islanders, most probably, originated clasping their hands before their breasts, from Japan or Corea, having a good deal of and bowing their heads. The next day the Corean lineaments, but rather milder he gave the strangers a splendid entertainHaving carried on this scheme for a few and softened down. They are obviously ment on shore; and as it was the annidays, they were then informed that the finger not of Chinese origin, having nothing what decking the vessels with a multitude of beautiful lanterns, sent on board for that purpose by the hospitable islanders. was so much better as to render their attend-ever of that drowsy and elongated eye which Versary of our beloved King's accession, ance unnecessary any longer; and, as a re- peculiarly distinguishes the latter; nor would the ships were dressed, royal salutes ward for their services, they were presented it seem that the few Chinese and their de- fired, and every other demonstration of with some little articles, and, among others, scendants settled on the island freely mixed loyal respect shown. The healths of as an addition to the chest, some spirits of with the native Lewchews, the natural fea- their respective sovereigns were toasted hartshorn, displaying to them its effect on tures and the natural disposition of the two by the British and Lewchewans; prethe olfactory organs, with which they were people being perfectly distinct, and differing sents were interchanged, and at night the quite astonished and pleased; some spirits in every respect. Neither have they any most brilliant effect was produced by of lavender, and oil of mint, they also con- mixture of Indian blood, being quite as fair sidered a great acquisition. The physician, as the Southern Europeans; even those who more especially, seemed to be a very respect- are most exposed being scarcely so swarthy able man, and was treated as such by those as the same class of society in Spain or Porabout him. Their practice seems to be a tugal. good deal derived from the Chinese, for their The Chinese language is learnt by a few, notion of the circulation of the blood, or as the French is in our own country; but the rather their having no correct notion about Bonzes, who are also schoolmasters, teach it, is the same. Neither have they any idea the boys their native language, which is of anatomy from actual observation, and, of dialect of the Japanese, and is rather soft course, the greater operations cannot be and harmonious; and they have nothing of undertaken; one man only was examined that hesitation in utterance, or appearance by Mr. Rankin, who had lost his arm, and of choking, which is observed in the former, his stump was rather a rude one. Some corn often requiring the action of the hands to was left with them, which they promised to assist the tongue. The orders and records cultivate; and, fortunately, Captain Hall had some English potatoes, which were likely to be productive, and the mode of planting a In this respect the Chinese seem to resem. ble what is said of a Frenchman;-that if his hands are tied, he cannot speak. Before our navigators departed, which they did on the 27th October, after a stay of six weeks, a whimsical proposal was made to the boatswain's wife, who had been much on shore, to remain behind, and become the cara sposa of some great man, (supposed the king,) with a splendid house, and all manner of finery. Her husband, after a day's deliberation, refused to part with this desired lady. The sailing of the ships produced a strong demonstration of the benevolent feelings generated by the friendly inter-Road of the frigate, (which deserved to this court, and city officers," we were course which had taken place. be preserved as a relic for the lesson she induced to take it for perusal. The period of our departure being now gave these slaves,) are too generally Far be it from us to enter into the fixed, all the stores were embarked on the known to need our comments. windings of the wise Corporation's polievening of the 26th October. The next morn We shall only notice, that the details tics, or to try to reconcile its inconsisting, as the ships unmoored, the Lewchews, of the situation and proceedings of the encies. For aught we know, both votes as a mark of respect, arrayed themselves in their best apparel, and proceeding to the crew left on the island of Pulo-leat, might be soundly bottomed, and the temple, offered up to their gods a solemn sa- struggling against privations the most profane scriptural debate in the second crifice, invoking them to protect the Engelees, trying, and peril, from about 600 Malay instance be as innocent of meaning, as to avert every danger, and restore them in pirates, the most appalling, for nineteen the matter-of-course commendations in safety to their native land! In the manner days, until the return of Mr. Ellis, with the first. But it rather appears to us, of this adieu there was an air of sublimity succours from Batavia, furnishes one of and benevolence combined, by far more touching to the heart than the most refined compliment of a more civilized people. It was the genuine benignity of artless nature, and of primitive innocence. Immediately following this solemnity, our particular friends crowded on board to shake hands, and say, "Farewell!" whilst the tears which many of them shed, evinced the sincerity of the most romantic and delightful episodes that we ever read. The amiable point of view in which this history pourtrays Mr. Ellis, is enough to insure him the esteem, even the affection of strangers. At Batavia, the re-united voyagers again happily embarked in the Cæsar; escaped being destroyed by fire in that Bidding farewell to a race, whose vir-ship, touched at the Cape and at St. tues were rendered dearer from the con- Helena, where their interview with Buonatrast with the Chinese, the Alceste pursued parte is described, and at length arrived at Spithead, "from whence," (says our author, with true feeling, schooled by experience,) their attachment. her course by Formosa, the western parts of which have submitted to the yoke of China, and respecting which a note is 66 we landed once more on that both were wrong; for we cannot think that the sermon deserved encomia and propagation, any more than that it should have been raked up a second time for the sake of a party triumph at the expense of decency and religion. The and merriment, and ludicrous quotation. Bible is an indifferent subject for jest, But our business is with the publication rather than with the Corporation; and we must say, that it does display more of politics thau a sermon ought to do, or is, in our humble judgment, consistent with the duties of a Christian expounder of the word of God. It might be, that the occasion warranted slipped in, en passant, to tell us, that our native isle; not merely with the com- some allusions to the circumstances of the mode of courtship there is rather mon feeling of happiness, which all man- the times, and some advice thereon to odd-the lover declaring himself by kind naturally enjoy on revisiting the the hearers, drawn from the examples of hovering about the house of his mistress, and playing upon some instrument "which signal she answers by coming out to meet him, and settle the matter, provided he is to her taste; should it be otherwise, she takes no notice, the gentleman whistles in vain." Virgil surely had this island in his prophetic view when he wrote, "Formosam resonare doces," as a lover's canticle. Returned to Macao and Canton, our tars met with that insolent reception from the Viceroy of Canton, which led to the well-known display of British coolness and valour, when the broadsides of the Alceste tumbled the batteries and lanterns about the ears of the astounded natives, and that ship took her station where it was her duty to be, in spite of the Mandarins, or Mad Marines, as the sailors nicknamed them. We wish a land of their birth, but with those sensa- others." The Holy Writ. But this discourse is very nearly all political, and, what is worse still, of the harshest kind. The severity of justice may be necessary, but surely the pulpit is not the place to enLong as this review is, we must ac- force it. Mercy is the attribute most knowledge that our extracts by no means congenial to that place, and the doctrine do full justice to the interest which the of universal peace and good-will better Narrative possesses; and we cordially re-adapted to its character than the denuncommend the volume itself to supply our ciation of mortal punishments. deficiencies. It is adorned with several text will show the nature of the discourse, beautiful coloured prints, has an appen-as all the inferences drawn from it are dix containing much useful and enter- sternly correct. taining information; and though we have ransacked its pages to this extent, we have been so pleased with them, that we are not sure we shall not return to the charge, and lay before our readers one or two curious extracts more, but merely quoting our authority, without further animadversion. similar ceremony had been performed on A SERMON preached in the Cathedral The proceedings after Lord Amherst's arrival, the sailing and wreck in Gaspar "Whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be exe- death or to banishment, or to confiscation of Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; We are of the Poet's religion, rather than of the Priest's. We know that crime must be visited condignly; but the best feeling of man is compassion for his erring fellow-creature, and the best preThis Sermon having attracted more cept of the disciples of Him that might than usual notice, from having been made the vantage best have took, is to temper the subject of a vote of censure in the the exposition of the law with the meek Common Council of London, after a vote spirit of the lawgiver. We have no difof thanks, declaring it to be "excellent," ference with Mr. Bates in doctrinal had passed in the same assembly, with points; but this we will freely and canfurther direction for its being printed, didly say, a minister of the gospel is and a copy "sent to every member of among the last who ought (in our opi nion,) to urge an unmitigated, unrelent- would argue from their errors, more fer-marvellous secrets, which brought about the ing, and unforgiving view of human tile in promise of future excellence. Let co-partnership. It may therefore be preoffences. It is true, that conscience must him, however, vigorously pursue the sumed, that the art of printing had its birth in the city of Strasburg, in the year 1436. dictate to such a man what he ought to muse; throw away timidity, and act the But we know nothing respecting the early do, and we are convinced that the ardent lover. Cymon was nothing but processes and first productions of the art. It preacher of this Sermon deemed it a sa- an idiot till the full fervour of inspiration is generally believed, that up to the year cred obligation to stand forth, at no com- took possession of his soul, and he sur- 1438, Guttemberg made use of moveable mon era of confusion and danger, as the rendered himself without reserve to the wooden characters. But either the derangeadvocate of judgment on the offending: mighty passion which claimed all his ment of his affairs, or the fear of injuring his credit, prevented him at all times from but it was an unamiable duty, and we do energies. putting his name to his works; and we trust, that whenever it may occur as The principal Poems in this volume are here reduced to mere conjectures. One needful, which Heaven forbid should are an Epistle from Abelard to Eloise; thing is, however, certain; namely, that Gutoften happen, there may be somewhat an Ode to Genius; Monody on Chatter-temberg was an inhabitant of Strasburg in more of tenderness, something more of ton; and Retrospection, a Sketch; the 1444: but in 1443, he had hired a house at piety breathed into every political address remainder are sonnets and minor pieces. Mentz, where, in 1450, he formed a connecwhich the nature of the times may ask The whole are of a melancholy cast, and ion with Faustus. To this partnership is generally attributed the production of the from the pulpit. The Head of our this perhaps gives a sameness which Biblia Latina, called the forty-two line Bible, religion never preached intolerance or might better have been relieved. We without either date, name of the printer, or vengeance; let us imitate him, rather subjoin one of the sonnets as a specimen. the place at which it was printed. This than the Prophets of the Old Testament, work was, however, the occasion of law-suits who combined the offices of legislators between the two partners. Faustus demanded a re-imbursement of the considerable and teachers of morality, and whose sums which he had advanced, and, in 1455, tenets in the former character do not always offer the most adviseable rule for Guttemberg was compelled to resign the establishment to Faustus, who carried it on the governance of modern nations. in company with Schoiffer. In the year following, Guttemberg, assisted by Conrad Humery, a Syndic of Mentz, established another press in that city. From this press, doubtless issued the work entitled, Hermanni EVENING HOURS; a collection Original Poems. 18mo. pp. 128. of THE ELGIN MARBLES. lime? For oft, in anger, at yon fane he hurled His iron rod, but prostrate at the shrine Of the Great Goddess harmlessly it fell, ARTS AND SCIENCES. AND ITS EARLIEST PRODUCTIONS. Universelle will, as we have already stated, : de Saldis speculum sacerdotum, sixteen sheets quarto; neither date nor printer's name are attached to it, though it bears the name of the city of Mentz; it is printed in characters different from those which belonged to the other presses of Mentz. Such is the opinion of M. Von Prael concerning this volume, and it may safely be adopted. M. G. Fischer, who published an Essay on the typographic printing of ten works, among which are four monuments of J. Gutenberg (Mentz, year X, in quarto), attributed to Guttemberg the These Poems, we are given to understand, are "the effusions of leisure hours, and composed between the ages of fifteen and nineteen :" the models proposed by the author for himself are those of what was called our Augustan age, the era of Pope, before the newer schools started up to contest the palm. As the productions of youth, they are entitled to much indulgence, and it may appear somewhat paradoxical in us to say, that appear in a few days. We extract and transwe wish they had stood in need of more. late from them the following article:editions of the Donat. But since the pubThe truth is, as it appears to us, that Guttemberg (called John Genstleish oflication of M. Fischer's work, a sheet bethey are too correct. The versification Sulgeloch), the inventor of printing in Eu-longing to one of these Donats has been would do no discredit to a veteran poet; rope, was born at Mentz, in 1400. Only two discovered, which bears the name of Peter of Gernsheim (Schoiffer); a circumstance there is a maturity and good sense about cities now dispute the honour of having given which authorises us in attributing to this the thoughts, a judgment, a skill in the of having produced the same artist. Though birth to the typographic art, and both boast same Schoiffer, all the works which are exeart, and a sober fire throughout, which there is not extant any monument of the cuted with corresponding characters. But we could have well pardoned seeing ex-art of printing, to which the name of Gut- these characters, which are the same as changed for greater irregularities and more temberg is affixed, yet a well-authenticated those of the Biblia Latina, having first prominent faults. Yet it would be harsh tradition, adopted by the two cities, incon- belonged to Guttemberg and Faustus, and to condemn a young man for writing too testably bears witness in favor of the indivi-afterwards to Faustus and Schoiffer, it is much like one of experienced years, esdual in question. The family of Guttem-extremely difficult to allot to each their pecially when, as in the present case, the one called Zum Gensfleish (House of that the names of the inventors of the two berg was noble, and possessed two houses; share of the impressions. It is remarkable, there is much general talent and consider- Goose-flesh), the other, Zum Gudenberg most celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth able genius displayed. We know how (House of Good Mountain). In 1424, Gut- century, are not attached to their produc sweet encouragement is to the youthful temberg proceeded to Strasburg, where, in tions. The Psalter of 1457, of which the bard, and though we cannot devote our 1436, he formed a co-partnership with An-priority of date is indisputable, bears only space to analyze this volume, we trust drew Dryzehn and some others, in all his the names of Faustus and Schoiffer, though it cannot possibly have been the first prothe writer will be satisfied with the asmarvellous arts and secrets. George Dryzehn, on the death of his brother Andrew, insisted duction of the art. During the four last censurance which we can honestly give him, on becoming his successor; and, in 1339, turies, printing characters have received a that with all the blemishes in our power instituted a law-suit against Guttemberg, less favourable to the eye); but in every more elegant form (perhaps one which is to detect, he might solace himself with who was condemned to resign to the heirs the acknowledgment that not one of the of the deceased the share he had held in the other respect, the Psalter of 1457 is doubtless a masterpiece. It must have been pregreatest poets of the present day pro partnership. The invention of typography ceded by long experiments; and here the duced, at the age of nineteen, works more was, it appears, among the number of the efforts of Guttemberg cannot be disputed. creditable to their names, though, we There is reason to believe, that in the in The Parthenon. Psyche. FINE ARTS. DAVID'S CUPID AND PSYCHE. This new production of the celebrated artist possesses merit of the first order. Skill and grace are the chief characteristics of the composition. expressed their ardent desire for the immediate establishment of a direct intercourse between their kingdom and Cape Coast, to natives, now reduced to submission, had which the prejudices of the intermediate hitherto opposed the most formidable obstacles. To improve this favourable opportunity, the mission set out, having for its object not only the establishment of commercial intercourse, but also the scientific observation of a country hitherto so little from Cape Coast, after a fatiguing journey (or Cummazee, as we have also seen it spelt,) known, and it happily reached Commassie, the Ashantee capital, situate about 190 miles of many days. After this explanation of the circumstances, we hasten to lay before our readers curious and interesting, being an Extract of a those particulars which seem to us peculiarly Letter, dated 21st June, 1817, from a gentleman in Africa to his friend in this country, describing their reception at the Court of fancy of the art, more than eighteen months must have been spent in the printing of this Psalter, an interval which brings us back to a period previous to the separation of Guttemberg and Faustus. Palmer, in his His-permission to view M. David's picture of A few amateurs have recently obtained tory of Printing, (in English) mentions a book entitled, Liber Dialogorum Gregorii, the subscription of which he gives in the following terms : “Presens hoc opq (opus) factum est per Johan. Guttenbergium apud argentinam anno millesimo cccclviii." David Clement, on the authority of Palmer, menPsyche, voluptuously stretched on an ancurious Bible, page 16; and again in vol. iv, summits of the distant hills, warn the young tions this volume in the preface to his The beams of Aurora, which already gild the tique bed, is sleeping in the arms of Love. page 70; and vol. ix, pages 275 and 276. In the latter instance he, however, acknow-god that it is time to quit his lovely mistress. ledges having too readily placed faith in tion, lest his motion should disturb the He rises from the bed with the utmost cauPalmer, and regards the subscription which slumber of the innocent Psyche. he quotes as a matter of doubt. This subscription is now known to have been printed artist is not recognizable at the first glance. In this picture the habitual style of the after the work, and is said to have been Hitherto M. David has perhaps been too done at Oxford. In 1458, Guttemberg esta-inattentive to colouring, and has devoted blished his second printing press at Mentz, himself to the production of figures of the where he continued to print until 1465, grand style. His Cupid, though exquisitely when he was appointed Gentleman of the formed, possesses no ideal beauty, and there Household to the Elector Adolphus of Nas-is even an expression of vulgarity in the mussie, the capital, they were interrupted by sau. He died three years afterwards, on the countenance: the arms are too long and an immense crowd. Guards were drawn up, 24th of February, 1468. Much has been thin, there is little luxuriance in the colour- and went through the African evolutions, written concerning Guttemberg and his in- ing of the hair, and the shades of the neck firing amid music, flags, &c. After stopping vention. Several particulars, however, still approximate too nearly to black. But though about half an hour, they advanced slowly on; remain in obscurity; and it would now per- M. David may have lost some portion of his but, every few yards, were detained to hear haps be difficult to imagine any new hypo-taste for the antique and the grandiose of a song, and that musquets might be fired in thesis. All the various investigations and form, he has certainly improved in other honour to them; this continued during their discoveries hitherto made, are insufficient to particulars, which are not less important to progress through the first street, a mile in clear up the doubts which have arisen. It the art of painting; we allude to truth of length. At the corner of the King's resiis probable, that in proportion as we remove expression and force of colouring. from the period at which printing was in- Psyche is designed with exquisite grace, and intended for him were deposited in a house; His dence they made a halt, while the presents vented, we shall meet with no monuments hitherto undiscovered which might serve as Titian's Venuses for elegance of contour and long street, they were seated in an open hall, may be compared to the most beautiful of and then having proceeded down another authorities. In addition to the work of truth of colouring in the flesh. The picture that the people might have a full view of M. Fischer, before referred to, it is sufficient altogether reminds the observer of the vigor-them-the crowd exceeded forty thousand ous touch of Caravagio. to mention: III. Biblioteca Mogantina, libris sæculo primo typographico Mogantia impressis, instructa a Stephano Alexandro Wurdirvein episcopo heliopolensi, 1787, quarto. At the bottom of the picture are inscribed, in large characters, the name of the artist and that of the city of Brussels. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. Ashantee. "On the entrance of the mission to Com souls. officers of the royal household came to an"In about a quarter of an hour the civil nounce his Majesty's pleasure to see them. Mounted on their hammock-poles, they advanced to the market-place, which is near a mile in breadth. Here a grand display of mile long, and more than half a quarter of a banners and large umbrellas greeted their Around I. Monumenta typographica queæ artis hujus præstantissimæ originem, laudem et abusum posteris produnt, instaurata studio et labore J. C. Wolf. Hamburgh, 1740, two parts, octavo, containing forty-four complete works relative to the origin of printing, and three hundred quotations from different authors on the same THE ASHANTEE AFRICAN NATION. subject. II. Essai d'Annales de la Vie de J. Guten-dent for some very interesting particulars re-view-each Cuboseer, (the term for chieftain,) We are indebted to a friendly Corresponberg, inventeur de la typographie, par J. J. lative to the King, Capital, and People of with their wives, children, warriors, slaves, Oberlin. Strasburg, 1801, in octavo. This Ashantee, an extensive and powerful kingdom and other retinue round the chief's shade: work contains references to several others, in the interior of Africa; as an introduction from the transient glance taken at the moof which it gives summaries. the late contest detailed in all the newspapers, three hundred, distinguished by large umto which, it may be proper to premise, that ment, it is calculated there must have been which brought the contending armies of the brellas, each of whom commands from five Fantees and Ashantees (the rival nations of hundred to three thousand men. Cape Coast Castle, and for some time hands with each chief; every one had his the Gold Coast,) down to our settlement at this circle they ran the gauntlet, shaking V. Analyse des opinions diverses sur l'origine led to a mission to the monarch of the latter with horns and other instruments, while fans, threatened the safety of that establishment, band, and as they saluted, they flourished de l'imprimerie, par M. Daunou, 1803, quarto. country, which may ultimately prove very muskets, rods, elephants' tails, and the VI. Origine de l'imprimerie, d'après les titres beneficial to the British interests, and open Lord knows what, were waved in air as a authentiques, l'opinion de M. Daunou, et celle a new route for the prosecution of discove-mark of respect. When they arrived at any de M. Von Prael, par Lambinel, (deuxième ries in the interior of Africa. The judicious of the princes of the blood, the din was édition), 1810, 2 vol. in 8vo. dans lesquels est measures of defence adopted by the Gover- overpowering; what then must it have been ré-imprimé l'ouvrage de M. Daunou. the settlement, had impressed the conflicting Every thing over which silence did not hold nor, and the well-supported neutrality of when they approached the royal presence? parties with sentiments of high respect for her sway, raised their opposite powers to the superior discipline, and other advantages the full. of civilization, which they witnessed; and on the termination of the contest, the victorious Ashantees, in the name of their Prince, IV. J. D. Schapflin vindicia typographica, 1760, quarto. VII. Initia typographica, illustravit J. Fr. Lichtenberger, 1811, quarto. The author has published a sequel to this work, under the following title: Indulgentiarum literas Nicolai Quinti P. M. pro regno Cypri impressas anno 1454; matricumque epocham vindicavit, initia typograph. supplevit, 1815, quarto. sat the King, surrounded with emblems of "Under an umbrella, on a small eminence, power, (all gold,) and his numerous attend |