Mr. EDITOR, It has been generally understood that! Otway took the plot of his celebrated tragedy of the Orphan from an adventure in real life; and an old tomb-stone in a coun try church-yard has been pointed out as re We trust, however, that the European increase. We have no doubt but this league is too firmly consolidated to be is the plan now hinted at, as it created a shaken by these demonstrations. With very strong sensation at the period of regard to the law on the freedom of the which we are speaking. press, it is briefly this-to permit all Accounts from Marseilles report that books to be published under the legal the plague of Algiers has become dread-cording it. I have in my possession a very responsibility of the authors, editors, fully destructive; they also glance at the rare old play, entitled," The Hogge hath lost printers, and publishers in successive affairs of Tunis, representing the Bey as his Pearle, written by Robert Tailor, and diorder; and to continue the legal restric-being very unpopular, and his sons as vers times acted publikely by certaine London tions on the publication of periodical odious debauchees whose conduct is in small quarto; the plot of which turns Prentices in 1614;" and published that year works, the newspapers, &c. till the year likely to produce a revolution. upon the very incident that Otway has 1821. In the one case the law operates Mr. Rush, late Attorney General, has founded his tragedy upon--with these excepto punish, in the other to prevent: the been appointed Ambassador Extraordi- tions, that the parties are not brothers, but former is therefore as free as any thing nary from the United States to Great Bri- friends, and ultimately become reconciled to can be in a political sense, and the latter tain. His character is highly spoken of each other. I am inclined to doubt whether as entirely shackled as any thing can be in the American journals. Otway really founded his tragedy upon a which is mocked with the name of liberty. The Prince Regent has gone to Brigh-play, written so many years before the event matter of fact. Might not this curious old Where there is a power in government to ton, for the benefit of air and exercise, in question is stated to have happened, have step in, under any pretence, between an without the fatigue of court, so insepara- furnished him with the plot of the Orphan? individual and his intents, that iudi- ble from a residence in the metropolis. I will only add that this play, though ocvidual is effectually enslaved; which he His Royal Highness is living in much casionally exhibiting some of the extravais not, let the enactments against his ac- privacy. gances of the ancient school, is a very potions be ever so severe. We enter not etical and admirable production. Your constant Reader, E. D. Her Majesty has returned to Bath, into the question whether this may or may where we hope change of scene may not be expedient under existing circum- contribute to renovate her health, and stances in France, but we may notice tranquillize her spirits. that it cannot be necessary, if all the as- Prince Leopold, it is said, will visit surances given to the King, that he is a Brighton and Weymouth,-make an exfather living in the hearts of all his sub-cursion to Germany, and finally settle jects, be correct. The new law in fur-at Claremont. sun-rise to sun-set! VARIETIES. therance of the Concordat with the Pope The appeal of murder, Ashford versus The Parisian theatres now abound with A violent shock of an earthquake was felt at Geneva, on the 12th instant, and one also at Messina on the 18th ult. Happily there was no damage done in either instance. Throgmorton Street, The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh have proposed, as the subject of a prize essay, (limited to its own members) this question-" What changes are produced on atmospheric air by the action of the skin of the living human body?" Mademoiselle Laisnez, one of the first dancers at Marseilles, has, according to a Paris Journal, formed an engagement with the managers of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. First Minister of Maria Louisa, has purchased HEBREW LITERATURE.- Count Magawly, 1700 Hebrew manuscripts of great value, for the public library of Parma. Pinnock's edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of England, for the use of schools, with a continuation down to the present time, is reprinting; to which will be added a very useful table, showing the Genealogy of the present Royal Family of Great Britain, lineally deduced from Egbert, the first sole monarch of England. Mr. W. Russel Macdonald is preparing for publication a Paraphrase of the Economy of Human Life,-also à Companion to it. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Goethe's Life; and the whimsical Jeu d'Esprit, Letter from Mount Cervin to the Vosges, in our next. We are reluctantly compelled, from the number sented to us, on a late melancholy event, to conquer and merit of the poems which have been kindly prethrough them all in twelve months; and we dare not our desire to publish them. We could not get enter upon the invidious task of selection. Our Correspondents will please to accept our thanks, and an assurance that we esteem their favours as we ought; though, in the present instance, we cannot avail ourselves of them. ERRATUM.-In the Notice of the Print from Mr. Stothard's Canterbury Pilgrims, in our last number, line 42 from the end, for "food" read "host." patriotism can excuse. a How little Sweden can be considered as seat of the arts, appears from the fact, that besides the cabinet of Count Brahê, which contains some excellent paintings, (among which is an admirable David, by Guido, and the beautiful portrait of Mad. Montespan, by Mignard,) and the cabinet of a private collector, whose name has slipped my memory, there is not a single collection in Stockholm, worth mentioning. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. LITHOLOGY. precious stones, and amateurs who form col denheim, has indeed publicly advanced, ' con amore. His successor, who has inherited that one in the Stockholm museum might hardly one of his father's tastes, has done be placed in the next rank after that of nothing for its improvement or the enlargeIt is for him only a sort of retireParis: we must however confess, that ex-ment. Traité des Caractères physiques des Pierres cept the Nine Muses, a Grecian Priestess, ment, where he often indulges in his meand an Endymion of remarkable beauty, lancholy ideas, and has only a small court précieuses, pour servir à leur détermination lorsqu'elles ont été taillées; by the ABBE which was found in the rums of the Villa with him. Stockholm itself does not pos- HAUY, Member of the Royal Academy of Hadriani, in 1783, and was purchased by sess one public or private building in a great Sciences, Professor of Mineralogy of the Jarthe king, two beautiful candelabras and style, or of any remarkable elegance. The some bas-reliefs, the good Mr. Fredenheim hall of the assembly of the States (in front din du Roi and the Faculty of Sciences, Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at has indulged in an exaggeration which only of which stands the statue of Gustavus Vasa) St. Petersburg, and the Royal Academies is low, overloaded with architectural ornaments, and remarkable for nothing but its of Berlin, Lisbon, Munich, &c. &c. This work, which is destined for men of destination. The Schloszplaz (Palace-square) science and men of the world, presents reis more striking, and more modern. If you searches of a kind entirely new, and doubly come from one of the largest and fine streets, Drottnings-gatan and Regerings-gatan, the interesting, whether considered with respect which the celebrated author has been guided. palace lies just before you. Under the shade to themselves or the views of utility by of the statue of Gustavus Adolphus, and by His object is to enable artists who work in divides the palace from the square, you the bridge over a small arm of the sea which proceed directly to the former. To the right and left are buildings in a very regular style: Another proof is, that the most eminent there the Opera-house, here the Palace of Swedish painters, as Spaarman, Westmüller, the Princess Albertine, aunt to the King. Hall, &c. &c. acquired their reputation and The whole is, as I have already said, strik fortune abroad. In this branch of art, the ing, but cannot be described in detail. The only other names worth mentioning are statue of the Swedish hero, though made Precious stones lose in the hands of art Breda, the pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, an by L'Archèque, Sergell's master, is but inthe distinctive forms impressed upon thei excellent portrait painter; Masreliez, an different, and does not exactly stand in one historical painter, whose compositions have line between the bridge and the castle. On by nature: the observer is thus deprived of the only characteristic which is invariably more grace than strength, and the two bro-the whole, the place is too confined for so thers Martin, of whom the one is an excel- many objects. Stockholm is, notwithstand-combined with their essence, and those who, lent engraver, and the other a pleasing land-ing this, one of the finest cities, and at least in judging of these substances, confine themscape painter. Besides these, I could not one the most worthy of being seen in selves merely to ocular testimony, can permention any other, and even the latter might Europe. It would be one of the largest, if ceive only accidental differences of appearit were equally extended every way, which ance by which they are liable to be deceived. It remained for the philosopher who first is not the case. gave correctness to the arrangement of minerals, by the observation of their natural forms, to bring artists to that degree of precision, the advantages of which are lost with regard to precious stones, when they are submitted to the operation of cutting. be contested with Sweden. Some of the streets, scarce open With respect to statuary, the series seems to be nearly closed with Sergell's name. He ly indicated by two rows of wooden houses, has, however, educated several pupils, who extend far into the country; nay, on many already promise some thing, especially one sides you already fancy yourself in the who is gone to Rome, and taken with him fields, before you come to the barriers. The a name of good omen; he is called Göthe. populous and flourishing capital does not In respect to architecture, neither Stock-strike you till you reach the more inhabited holm, nor its neighbourhood, has any thing parts. ections, to know and judge of these substances, after they have been cut, and to determine their value by experiments at once simple and decisive, and thus to avoid the mistakes to which those individuals are exposed who consult only their false and deceiving physiognomy. M. Hauy has conceived the happy idea of substituting for the character presented by to show which announces great progress in Now a coup-d'œil; as it were a bird's-eye the form of minerals, various physical prothis art. The royal palaces in Stockholm view. Rocks rise upon rocks, and form a and Drottningholm are masses of stone, less rampart, which seems to surround the bori perties, which though insufficient in themselves, and when considered detachedly, deremarkable for their architecture than for zon about the town on all sides the sea rive all their force from their union and comthe beauty of their situation. The one is a comes in and divides it into islands, and bination. Their properties, which are in a large square building, on an eminence, which unites with the waters of the Meler Lake. great measure the fruit of the delicate reoverlooks the harbour, and nearly the whole The harbour, in a semi-circular form, searches of the author, are presented in the town. The other extends with heavy archi- stretches out in its whole extent, and is so form of a table, which by comprising under tecture to the Meler Lake, and presents at a deep, that it even receives ships of war one genus the different stones, concerning distance, if you come from Stockholm, a under the walls of the palace, and promotes which doubts may arise from the very probeautiful prospect. The Castle of Haga, a in every way the advantage of maritime inter-perty of colour, enables the reader to perhappy thought of Gustavus the Third, and course. In spite of rocks and frost, there is ceive at first glance the different experiments properly no more than a very pretty sketch great commercial activity on the broad quays. by which they may be distinguished. of a Royal Palace, lies in the middle of an Three of the finest quarters of the city are To facilitate the application of the method, English garden, laid out with great judg-ornamented with the statues of the three it was, however, necessary to make the ment, and the inside is adorned with much Gustavus's, which awaken great recollec- reader acquainted with the properties from taste. We see at the first look that Gusta- tions. The arsenal recalls the triumph of whence characters are derived, and likewise vus must have built and lived in this palace Gustavus the Third, in 1772; and the saloon with the mode of making experiments calof the Theatre reminds us of his unhappy culated to verify them. In order to render death 1792. Alternately filled with admira- this part of the work generally intelligible, tion and reflections, we survey all this with great interest; and perhaps this faint description may enable you to conceive how one may pass with pleasure, twenty rivers and three arms of the sea to see Stockholm. When be published the antiques of the Royal Museum at Stockholm. Von Göch haussen. 2 Reinhard and Sickler's almanack from Rome of 1810, mentions him as the sculptor of a Meleager, a Bacchus, a Hebe, and several busts, The Bacchus, in particular, as far as we have Adieu. been able to learn, is said to be a masterpiece equally distinguished by genius in the conception and beauty in the execution.-Von Göchhaussen. the author found it requisite to explain the truths of science by a particular form of language, adapted even to the comprehension of those who are strangers to this kind of study. M. Hauy bas fulfilled this consideration by scrupulously avoiding all scientific phrases, and by an admirable choice of simple expressions, and numerous comparisons drawn from familiar objects, calculated to inform without fatiguing the understanding. He begins by giving short explanations of certain geometrical terms, which enable him to abbreviate the table of that beautiful theory, to which the mineralogical system owes its advancement and perfection; and to demonstrate all its advantages by a brief description of the various species of precious stones. He then proceeds to develope the physical knowledge relative to the employment of characters, and to detail the processes by which the experiments are to be made. This article is particularly remarkable on account of the interest which arises from the subject of which it treats, as well as its connexion with all that precedes it. It may be termed a little treatise on natural philosophy for general use, in which the principal phenomena of light, electricity and magnetism are explained with that clearness and elegance of style, which remind us of the important work of the author, who has rendered classical those sublime truths, which were before reserved only to a few privileged minds. The book concludes with an Appendix, which explains within a narrow compass all the positive knowledge, which it is important to acquire concerning another class of substances, which come under our observation more frequently than precious stones, such as Agate, Lapis-lazuli, yellow Amber, &c., which appear under such a variety of forms, and are applied to so many useful purposes. From what we have said of this work, it must be evident that it needs only to be read to be understood. Its value is besides encreased by the correctness of the printing, the elegance of the types and finished style of the Engravings. ORIGINAL POETRY. PRIDE'S MISTAKE: A TALE. The stately mistress of a school, She took some little state upon her, Thought by these honest folks to have her. Nor was the Curate's wife to blame; "My mistress, Madam, sends by me, For port and sherry, cakes and spice, The curate's wife had got her share Amidst this clatter, rout, and din, "And this reception, worse than rude, The curate's wife could only wonder; If little things to little men, To vapour, break their fans, and vex; When the stars are away-O, how dark is the night, When the pale moon is quench'd by some heavy black cloud! But should she bid hope from my bosom take A much thicker gloom would my soul then THE BANKS OF THE STOUR. There, gay as the flowret which hangs o'er the In my childhood I rambled along ; There kindled my fancy with honour's wild dream, And I first felt the pleasure of song. And now that affliction sits wan on my cheek, On the banks of the Stour once more I must An asylum in which to repose. Retir'd from the service of honour and wealth, Ye breezes! prevail on the red bloom of health, F. B. THE DISCONTENTED MAN. The sooner it is paid the better; Nay, some implore a moment's credit! No houses, lands, or gold have I— OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Politics, &c. NO. XLVI. GOETHE'S LIFE. SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 1817. PRICE 1s. presume a violent eruption. At the left lay loud and wild: the women did not pray Capri, rising almost perpendicularly; the kneeling on the deck with their children, forms of its rocky cliffs were perfectly dis- but because the space was too confined to In one of our earlier numbers we in- tinguishable through the bluish transparent move, lay crowded together. They, more serted an extract from the celebrated vapour. Under a perfectly serene, cloudless than the men, who coolly thought on means Goethe's History of his own Life, to sky, shone the calm scarcely agitated sea, of safety, scolded and abused the captain. which he has given the rather singular which, at last, as the wind entirely died Now he was upbraided with every thing that title of "Fiction and Truth." We have away, lay stretched out before us like a trans- had been passed over in silence during the been informed that the author at first parent lake. We were wrapt in extasy at voyage; for much money, bad accommodathought of comprising the whole in about lamented, that all the art of colouring was which though not rude, was reserved. Ile the contemplation of the scene. R. Kniep tion, inferior nourishment, his behaviour, four volumes. However, the three first insufficient to represent the harmony of had given nobody an account of his actions; volumes that were published not having those tints, as the finest English pencil would nay, even this last evening had observed an advanced the history so far as was ex- not enable the most skilful hand to trace obstinate silence respecting his manœuvres. pected, and many readers, as it should the delicacy of these lines. I, on the other He and his pilot were said to be a couple of seem, being impatient to arrive at a more hand, convinced that a far inferior repre- adventurers without knowledge of navigainteresting period of the life of the au-ble of giving, would be at a future time high-contrived to become possessed of a vessel, sentation to what this able artist was capa- tion, who, out of mere lust of gain, had thor, he was induced to pass over an ly desirable, encouraged him to exert his and now by their incapacity and awkwardinterval of several years, (to be filled up hand and his eye for the last time: he suf-ness carried into destruction those who had at a future time,) and to begin a second fered himself to be persuaded, and produced confided themselves to their care. The capdivision of his work; comprising his one of the most accurate drawings, which he tain was silent, and seemed to meditate on travels in Italy. The first volume of afterwards coloured, and gave an example, the means of our deliverance: as for mythis second part was published some that even the impossible may be attained by self, to whom, from my youth, nothing had months ago; of the second volume, ing to night was watched by us with equally possibly remain silent any longer. I stepped the art of design. The transition from even been so vexatious as anarchy, I could not which is under the press, we have obtained several extracts, some of which we and to our astonishment the cloud over Ve- to them, that just at this moment, in partieager eyes. Capri lay quite dark before us, forward, and addressed them. I represented shall translate for the entertainment of suvius was inflamed, as well as the cloudy cular, their noise and clamour hindered and our readers, without, however, restrict-streak, growing continually more and more confounded those, from whom alone we ing ourselves to the exact chronological fiery; and we saw at last a considerable ex- could expect our deliverance, so that they order of the dates; which is the less tent of the atmosphere in the back-ground could neither think nor understand cach necessary, as this tour was performed of our picture enlightened, and even irra- other. As for you,' said I, 'look into yourabove forty years ago. We merely obselves, and then address your fervent prayers diated by flashes of lightning. "Amidst the enjoyment of these welcome to the mother of God, on whom alone it serve, that the author travelled through scenes, we had not observed that we were depends whether she will mediate with her Italy in its whole length to Naples, where threatened with a great misfortune; but the son, that he may do for you what he formerhe embarked for Sicily. Among our ex-confusion among the passengers did not long ly did for his apostles, when the waves of tracts are some from Naples, Palermo, leave us in uncertainty. They, better ac- the stormy sea of Tiberias dashed over the and Messina. The first extract, how-quainted with sea affairs than we were, ship, while the Lord slept who, however, ever, which we have selected to trans- and his pilot, that by their want of skill, not waked him, immediately commanded the bitterly reproached the master of the vessel when the disconsolate and helpless disciples late, is the following. winds to be hushed, so as he now can command the breeze to blow, if such be his divine will.' Monday, May 14, 1787. (At Sea. On the passage from Messina to Naples.) only the Strait was missed, but the people, "These words produced the best effect. Thus the afternoon passed away without One of the women, with whom I had been our entering, as we wished, into the Gulf of conversing before on moral and religious Naples. On the contrary, we were consubjects, exclaimed, Ah il Barlame! benestantly driven westwards, and our vessel, as detto il Barlame! And they really began, it approached the island of Capri, left Cape as they were already on their knees, eagerly Minerva more and more at a distance. Every to pray, with more than usual fervour. They body was vexed and impatient, but we two, could do this with the more composure, as who looked at the world with the eyes of the sailors attempted a means to save us, lovers of the picturesque, had reason to be which at least addressed itself to the eyeperfectly satisfied, for at sun-set we enjoyed "Our attention being excited by this lan- sight; they hoisted out the boat, which, the most glorious prospect that the whole guage, we considered our fate with horror: indeed, could hold only six or eight men; voyage had afforded us. Before our eyes for though the night did not allow us to see fastened it by a long rope to the ship, lay Cape Minerva, and the mountains con- the increasing danger, we remarked that the which the boat's crew endeavoured to tow nected with it, glowing with the most splen- vessel, wavering and unsteady, approached out of danger. Indeed, we thought for a did colouring, while the rocks, stretching to the rocks, which stood darker and darker moment that they moved it in the current, the south, already began to assume a bluish before us, while the broad expanse of the and hoped to see it soon safely out of it. hue. From the cape, the coast extending to sea still faintly glimmered in the last rays But whether these very efforts increased the Sorrento was illumined by the departing of the evening twilight: not the slightest counter-power of the current, or whatever beams. Mount Vesuvius was visible; an motion was perceptible in the air; every might be the cause, the boat, with its crew immense volume of smoke towered above body held up haudkerchiefs and light rib-at the end of the long rope, was dashed its summit, from which a long streak ex- bons, but not the slightest sign appeared of backwards in a curve towards the ship, tended far to the east, and gave us reason to the desired breeze. The people grew more something like the lash of a carman's whip. 2 respects to him there. Round it are many together. Next door to us, lives Madame have a way of proving whether you be cuckolds ice-houses. "Faire le voyage du jardin" has Fee. As she keeps much to herself, the or no." Refreshments were served; iced almost passed into a proverb, at our court, neighbours accuse her of witchcraft. Per- water in abundance. She then produced seand is applied to persons who undertake any haps, after all, it is only a Conte de Fée. veral pair of horns. "These horns," she said, thing difficult. The king is very childish Close to her is a morose old gentleman, "have a magical power in them; if he to whose and wanton in his sports, often throwing who lives very retired, and is hardly ever temples they are applied, be a real cuckold, great stones and snow-balls for his amuse-visited.-Beyond him, resides a stripling, there they will remain fixed; if he be not, on ment. When reproached with his wanton- who is so simple as to suffer the children to application, they will instantly fall off." So ness in injuring the trees, he answers, frown-play at leap-frog over his back; we call him saying, she attached horns successively on ing, "Is there, then, any crime in playing at Simplon, which is short for simpleton. He Messrs. Nest, Eiger, Wetter, Shreck, and nine-pins?" Forgive me, O Vosges, for dwel- is universally cut. I should like to see the Finsteraar ;-they remained immoveably fixling on these trifles; but no doubt you are brats make me stoop my back. One snow-ed. There happened, however, to be one aware that the least things about a court ball filliped at them by iny little finger, young married fellow present, on whose become matters of importance. Near our should soon bring them to their senses. temples the horns would not stand. Once, monarch, reside the two Bernards,' strict I am glad at last to be able to name that twice, and thrice, did Jungfrau apply them, methodists, and we call them the Saints. real ornament of our society, my venerable and as often did they fall off. The wench, The younger brother is a good little fellow friend Gothard. He and the two Bernards as barefaced a wanton as ever existed, inenough, and we nick-name him Le Petit are the only saints we have among us. He stead of paying him a decent compliment, Saint. The elder is very kind to sick or is an excellent creature; and never fails to began to scoff at him: "Oh, oh! then I see distressed travellers. They are often seen show the greatest hospitality to strangers, we have a Fall-horn among us; let us all learn with their powdered heads at a great bow who frequently go both to see him, and the to keep our beds as undefiled as the pure Mr. window, admiring the prospect which their noble view which his house commands. Faulhorn." All the party joined in a roar house commands. At the opposite side of our street, is a of laughter against him, and thought it an school of mischievous brats, who are often excellent joke: for my part, 1 thought it seen to pelt people with stones and snow-wretched, and could only turn away from balls. We call them the little devils. We the wench in disgust. However, from that want a new system of education for these hour, this stripling has been always known under the naine of Fallhorn.' I took care that she should not make the experiment on me. An old maiden lady lives near them, who passes most of her time in weeping over the miseries of this sinful world. Her name is La Dolente; she is intimately connected with the Bernards, but no one ever enter-refractory imps. tained the slightest suspicion of any thing wrong. The tears she sheds are incessant. She always carries a fan in her hand; and she is much looked up to. Gothard, the Bernards, and myself, are much hurt when we reflect on the state of our morals. The truth is, very many of us are I am known in our state by two names. cuckolds. There is that wench Jungfrau, My friends style me Cerviu; my enemies, who resides nearly opposite to me; she mar- who want to make me a cuckold, call me ried a fine young fellow, eager to win her Matterhorn. This is a sarcasm, rather hand. What was the consequence? She pointed, you will say. But they cannot deny cuckolded him immediately. About the that I possess acuter parts than all the rest time of her marriage, too, it is notorious that of our fraternity. No matter, however, horn she was brought to bed of twins, the fruit or no, since horns are so much the vogue. of an illicit amour with a tall bloomless fel-The ill, if any, rests with my wife Rosalow. It is, besides, pretty well known that my conscience is clear. she has a lech for a slippery youth, young Rodan, who, however, is French in heart, and swears he will have nothing to do with our sturdy lasses. In spite of her infamous conduct, she has the impudence to call herself virgin. Not far from the Bernards, resides my friend Combin. He is a fine personable fellow enough; but wastes his manhood in ogling with his mistress, Mademoiselle Chermontane. It is always his chère Chermontane, and nothing else. He is often seen combing his head for his Chermontane. The quantity of powder which falls from this operation, is prodigious. He has a barber, a hard-breathing fellow, whom he nick-names Boreas, and who never fails to apply fresh powder with his puff. They both live very retired: report says that his concubine is very pale and beautiful, but with a heart as cold as ice. Near him resides one of our Close to her, lives Finsteraar, very lar9 in worst characters; unfortunately for the re-his propensities, and not less vischiously inputation of our neighbourhood, his notoriety is great: we call him Le Vilain, or in our dialect, Le Velan." clined. At a party given one evening by Le Mont Fée. 2 Le Montemoro. Beyond my friend Combin, lives another profligate; he too keeps a mistress, whom he plagues much; she goes by the name of La Tourmentée.7 Report, however, says, that she is attached to him. After him, comes your humble servant, and his wife Rosa. 8 She is a full-blown rose indeed. 3 Cervin, however, brags a little too hastily; I do not mean to praise myself, or my merchants who transport wine from Chatillon, for the Col du Cervin is occasionally passed by wife; but the truth is, we do all we can to counteract the depravity of the neigh-the romantic valley of St. Nicholas, witnessed. on the Dora; as the author, in his passage up bourhood by our example. We live, in The passage of the Col is the highest in Europe; short, as man and wife should do, always it rises not less than 10,284 feet above the sea. Le Grand et le Petit Saint Bernard. + Les Diablerets, lesser mountains, N. E. of 2 Le Col des Fenêtres, near the Grand Saint the Valais. Some of these imps, however, rise Bernard. not less than 8000 feet above the sea. 5 The Eigerhorn. 3 Le Mont Dolente, near the Col de Ferret. 4 Le Glacier de L'Eventail, shaped like a fan, and attached to the Mont Dolente. 5 The Chermontane glacier, which falls from the Mont Combin. 6 Le Mont Velan. 6 The Gemini, vulgò Gemmi. 8 The Aletch glacier, which falls from the 9 Lux, a village in the Valais, opposite the 7 Le Glacier Tourmenté, attached to the Col Finsteraar. d'Oren. Le Mont Rosa. In spite of all these iniquities, we are not strangers to more rational and innocent amusements. We have an Italian resident among us, who has opened a noble panorama of our territory; his name is Righi';3 he exhibits it sometimes in a camera lucida, sometimes in a camera obscura. Our laws are in a very bad state. Our judge, a stern inexorable fellow, keeps aloof from us all, and had as lieve condemn the innocent as the guilty. The little devils call him Pontius Pilate. There is that Rossberg, one of our puisné judges; he presides at a horrid tribunal. At one session, he condemned upwards of 450 persons; and no sooner had he pronounced the verdict, than they were executed. Their houses, too, were razed to the ground. Himself the 1 The Faulhorn, on the Lake of Brientz. the Alps. This colossus, but little known, rises + Le Mont Pilate. 5 L'écroulement du Rossberg, which happen10 The Visch glacier, inclining from the Fins-ed in 1806, and destroyed four villages, and 450 teraar. peasants. |