found out of the Mediterranean. "The lowances must be made for apparent cruelty. | house, and not much more than three per- Austria and Prussia, and all the Powers ther skirmishing thau regular affairs, and the royal cause was rendered triumphant by a rising of the loyal inhabitants within the city, while the insurgents were engaged without. The works undertaken on the right of the The Dey of Tripoli has presented the Temple of Jupiter Stator, go on briskly; one Prince Regent with such remains of anti-sees now a wall forming a segment of a cirquity as are removable at Lebyda, which is cle; from the description of the Rostra, it famous for being the site of Carthage. These may be a part of that building. ancient monuments are represented as highly curious, and illustrative of that once splendid capital. ZADIG SAID TO BE A PLAGIARISM. Extract from Jorgenson's Travels in France Letters from Bourges of the 13th, state, that the preceding evening, between four and five o'clock, a terrible hail storm greatly injured the country between the rivers Arbrose; the hailstones were as large as pinon and Auron, in the vicinity of St. Amand Germany, lately published. geon's eggs, and fell with the most destrucThe following anecdote of that extraordi-tive violence. The harvest, and the other In the course of last week Brussels was nary man, which came to my knowledge produce of the fields in the neighbourhood, more than once thrown into some con- during my stay in Germany, is so little were entirely destroyed in less than an hour. fusion by riots in the markets for provi-insertion in the Literary Gazette. I was one bad on the 1st July. known in this country, that I send it for The King of Prussia arrived at the Carlssions. The populace enforced the sale day conversing with a German gentleman, The corn harvest has been so abundant in of several articles of consumption at low who is deeply skilled in all branches of lite-Sicily, that his Neopolitan Majesty has, by a prices, and it was found necessary to rature, and had studied the French and Eng-Royal Decree, permitted the exportation of call in the aid of the military to restore lish authors with great attention. Voltaire the new wheat. tranquillity and order. accidentally became the subject of conver- An Italian Journal contains the following sation: I mentioned, that the great French-calculations on the probabilities of human of genius; but nothing struck me so much peopled by a thousand millions of indiviman had displayed a wonderful versatility life. The writer supposes the earth to be as the variations of his style, when writing duals, who all die within the space of a cenon different topics-I mentioned Zadig as an tury. Thirty-three years are allotted to each instance: who would believe the author of generation; consequently 33,333,333 indithis small volume to be the same man that had written the History of Charles XII. or the Letters on the English nation, if we were not well informed of the fact? The the least, from Voltaire's reputation, inGerman, without intending to detract, in formed me, that the original Zadig was actu- the same period, only 740 will survive at the ally written some centuries back by a Persian termination of a year, in three years 600, in philosopher. A copy had found its way five years 584, in ten years 540, in thirty into the East Indies, whence it was trans- years 446, in sixty years 226, in eighty years mitted to England; where it lay without 49, in ninety years 11, in ninety-five years 9, notice, till it accidentally fell into the hands and in ninety-seven years 1. of Voltaire; who published it as the production of his own fancy. The Swiss Diet met at Berne, on the 7th inst. The President's opening speech describes the Confederation as eminently tranquil and prosperous. The Ribbon of the Garter, vacant by the death of the Duke of Northumberland, has been conferred by the Prince Regent on Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for War and Colonies. [The authentic news of the week is so scanty as to afford us only this slight sketch, independent of what finds place among our Varieties.] VARIETIES. POPULATION OF PARIS.-A Census of viduals die yearly, 91,324 daily, 3808 hourly, 65 every minute, and 1 every second; $7,037,037 individuals are born in a year, 101,471 in a day, 4228 in an hour, 70 in a minute, and 1 in a second. Out of 1000 children who are born within ANIMAL POISONS.-It unfortunately hap. From the above tables the author conpens that science is too often at war with cludes that one half of the children who are humanity; and we turn with disgust from brought into the world, die before they attain the spectacle of martyred dogs and cats un-Paris has just been published. It states the age of seventeen. Out of one thousand der the knife and stop-watch of experimental that the City contains 27,371 houses, 227,252 individuals, only one will live to be a hunsurgery. Yet where the result of experi- families, and 715,595 individuals. This dred years of age. ments promises benefit to mankind, fair al- gives eight families and a half to cach The following is the number of men in different countries, on an equal space of ground: trusted him with the management of a jour-ings in pannels and borders, which are not In Iceland, 1; in Sweden, 14; in Turkey, 36; in Poland, 32; in Spain, 63; in Ireland, NATURAL GLAUBER'S SALT.-A traveller Opposite this villa, on the other side of 99; in Switzerland, 114; in Germany, 127; in England, 152; in France, 160; in Upper has lately discovered a natural Glauber's Italy, 172; in Naples, 192; in Venice, 196; Salt on the plains (or deserts) near Iassy, in the valley, an ancient house has been disin Holland, 224; and in Malta, 1103. What Moldavia. It is well known that Glauber's covered, of which only one apartment is an astonishing difference with respect to the Salt is a production of Art; but here it appears visible, with mosaic in figures. It is hoped as a production of Nature. The traveller that something interesting will be found, population of Iceland and Malta! An experiment is making on the Seine, in question remarked on his way from because several vases have been discovered By the Quebec Paper of the 19th ult. we under the inspection of the Institute, of a Mobilew to Iassy, and also in the countries entire, in a kind of subterraneous gallery. new constructed boat, with oars, which is near the Pruth, that the hollows were in described as possessing all the advantages some places of a greyish appearance, from find that the House of Assembly has been of the steam-boat without any of its incon- being covered with a white dust. He col-prorogued from the 2d of July to the 1st of veniencies and dangers. One man, placed lected some of this white grey earth, and September. It contains one article of intelin this oar-boat, is sufficient to urge it on-brought it to Moscow, where it was examin-ligence, that may be useful to those deluded wards with full rapidity, by a handle which ed; and gave the following result. The and deluding persons, who fly to America as resembles the rounce of a printing-press, and earth is grey, crumbling, easily reduced to a country where they hope to better their which gives motion to the wheels. It is powder, internally blackish, and the outside condition. It appears that Mr. Buchanan, added, that a single horse, instead of a man, coat of a salt cool taste. Chemically analyzed, the British Consul at New York, had arrived would be sufficient for carrying the greatest two ounces of this grey Salt-earth afforded, at Quebec to concert measures with his Exby the dry strong distillation, a liquor of cellency the Governor for the future disposal weight. 80 grains, which was a solution of Sal Am- of Emigrants who may arrive in the United The following statement will best illus-moniac, and 10 grains of sublimated Sal States. The nature of the proposed arrangeAmmoniac. The remainder (sediment) be- ment is stated to be for their conveyance to trate the disappointment the Emigrants ing mixed with water gave half an ounce Upper Canada. The expense is estimated at meet with on their arrival at New York: "EMIGRATION. Statement shewing the and 50 grains of pure crystalized Glauber's five dollars and a half each adult, and half number of British subjects who lately left Salt. The earth weighed still an ounce and that amount for children. Great Britain and Ireland for the United a half and 20 grains. Treated with double States of America, and who received be- the weight of English Oil of Vitriol it affordtween the 10th March and 10th May, 1817, ed two drachms of Alum, and 12 grains of Selenite. What remained was gravelly passports to entitle them to grants of land, from James Buchanan, Esq. his Majesty's earth (Kiesclerde) mixed with some dephloIt appears Consul at New York, to proceed to British gisticated ferruginous and calcareous earth. North America, chiefly to Upper Canada:(Eisenerde and Kalkerde). Glauber's -Farmers, 87; Labourers, 31; Manufac-therefore that this earth of Iassy would well reward the trouble of preparing turers, 43; Mechanics, 186 -Women, 185; Salt from it upon the spot. Children, 456.-Total, 988.-Of this number, English, 329; Scots, 178; Irish, 481.Total, with 340 last Autumn, 1328.-Number of applications approved by the Consul, up to the 30th May, 1658." CURE FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.-The Piedmontese Gazette of the 8th, contains the following: "Thanks to the exertions of the celebrated professor BRUGNATELLI, (at Florence) there is at length discovered an efficacious remedy against the most terrible of all maladies, canine madness. This remedy consists of hydroclore (liquid oxygenated muriatic acid) used internally as well as externally: the wounds caused by the bite of mad animals LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. FRANKLIN'S CORRESPONDENCE and LADY Our readers will be MORGAN'S "FRANCE." pleased to hear, that Octavo Editions of these interesting works have just made their appear ance. The Second and concluding Volume of DR. WATKINS' LIFE of the late RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN will appear early next week. We understand that the very curious Manuscripts of the celebrated John Evelyn are preparing for publication. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Biographical Memoir of Madame de Stael has so far occupied our columns, that we are under the necessity of postponing the insertion of many communications. The Biogra phies of several distinguished persons are in preparation. Some confusion having arisen in consequence of Gentlemen who contribute to the various The Resolutions proposed at the first meeting of the Catholic Board, Dublin, on Saturday last, for a letter of complaint and remonstrance to the See of Rome, upon the indignity offered by the temporal authorities of the Court of Rome to the very respectable delegate of the Catholics of Ireland, the Rev. Mr. Hayes, and demanding that he may be immediately recalled-were carried unani-are to be washed with it. It appears that departments of this Journal, as well as others this substance destroys the hydrophobic being addressed as the organs of communicamously. poison, even when used several days after tion, or as responsible for its contents, we beg the fatal bite. Numerous cures, incontes-leave to refer to our Imprint for the proper table and authentic, which have been effect-mode of communication, and to say, that it is ed by this extremely simple method, in the uncandid and erroneous to fix upon Individuals which boasts a little Republic of Literature.. great hospital of Lombardy, leave no doubt as the Writers of Articles, in a publication as to the power of this specific." The New York Advertiser of the 17th of June contains the following account of the shock of an earthquake: "ST. STEVEN'S, (N. B.) JUNE 4.—Yesterday morning, about a quarter past three o'clock, we had a severe shock of an earthquake; its direction was from S. W. to N. E. which time the earth was in motion about one minute and a half, the tops of houses were thrown down, others were much cracked, doors unlocked, chairs and tables set in motion, and the vessels in the river shook like a leaf." The necessary researches alone have prevented the Conclusion of W. C.'s Observations on GLASS-PAINTING. As soon as some promised documents are obtained, the article will be finished and inserted in our earliest ensuing publication. "The Rostrum," &c. shall appear as early as possible; there was no lecture last week Our publishers having received during the owing to the indisposition of Mr. Ogilvie. Two miles from the Gate of St. Sebastian, on the declivity of a little hill, there has lately been discovered an Antique Villa. This habitation evidently appears to have been burnt and plundered. A large court, surrounded by a piazza, lights the ground story on three sides only; the fourth side A letter from Vienna of the 2nd instant forms an open portico, with a double range of states, that the Mountain of Hausruck, columns, which faces a little valley: beauin Upper Austria, has suddenly disap-tiful mosaics, in good preservation, adorn peared, and been replaced by a lake. Some almost all the apartments: one represents a past week the names of a considerable number houses were destroyed in consequence, and vessel surrounded by tritons and sea mon-of new Subscribers to the Literary Gazette, we several persons are stated to have perished.sters: the others have several compartments. beg to acquaint those who wish to have it comThe Constitutionnel informs its readers The walls are for the most part covered with plete, that it may be had either in Parts or in that the celebrated Billaud de Varrenes is marble in the lower part. The portico or Numbers, from the commencement in January, now at St. Domingo, where Petion has en-piazza round the court is covered with paint- 1817. OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Politics and Fashion. NO. XXVIII. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1817. PRICE 1s. his good-humour was almost proverbial. of mind than Mr. Beloe. His is a very His open and generous nature was too often cornucopia of amusement, from the hisa dupe to the treacherous, and a prey to the tory of his College companions, many THE SEXAGENARIAN; or, THE RE- designing. His latter days were spent in of them since Bishops, Judges, Peers, and Senators, to the latest date of his COLLECTIONS of a LITERARY LIFE. retirement from those busy scenes, in which he had formerly borne a conspicuous part. 8vo. 2 vols. Published by Rivingtons. In the last two years of his life, he amused observation; through the whole classes himself with the composition of the preced- of Poets, Politicians, Authors, Blue StockIt may appear a strange way of begining Memoirs, which display an extensive ings, Booksellers, &c. &c. &c. with whom, ning the Review of a work to transcribe knowledge of the events and the characters in the course of a long and various cathe Postscript, but in the present instance of a former day. Many of the personages reer, he had lived on terms of intimacy or friendship. Price 11. 1s. it appears to be the most expedient. there described, like the hand which records Such was the plan, and such the fate of poor BELOE, the Sexagenarian! Should the writer of this article ever have to record similar occurrences at a similar period of life, it would be one of his earlier recollections, that he had more than once met in society where the conversational talents to which so just a tribute is here paid, were exerted to the delight and in formation of the social circle. It will not perhaps be a very easy matter, at this period of the work, to recal the mind of the reader from fiction to reality, and to persuade him of the melancholy truth, that the Sexagenarian is now no more. The circumstances attending this event are of an interesting, almost even of an awful nature. To engage the attention more deeply in his narrative, and to relieve it of the egotism attached to self-biography, the Sexagenarian had adopted the third person instead of the first in many parts of the work. He had supposed, that after his death, a friend had discovered a number of scattered materials, from which these volumes were to be form ed, and had so supplied the connecting links as to make the history complete. In adopting this plan, he was enabled to give the narrative many little lively turns, which the natural playfulness of his mind suggested. In this manner he had proceeded, sustaining the character of himself and his friend, within a few pages of the conclusion of his work, and had even corrected the press down The Postscript so perfectly explains to the present sheet. Little perhaps did he think how prophetic was his plan, and that the nature and object of these volumes, on his own death-bed he should in reality that it would be impertinent to enlarge entrust to a friend that office, which in fiction the subject. They contain a series he had supposed to have been committed to of contemporary biographical portraits, To present these Memoirs to the world, and explain the peculiar circum- and of curious anecdotes: the former stances under which they are published, was are all of them easily recognized by the dying request of the Sexagenarian, to persons who have mixed in the literary one who knew and who valued his worth. world, or who are only common readers, He had scarcely entered upon his sixtieth-and most of them must be familiar to year, and had just entitled himself to the every apprehension; the latter are full To the appellation which in his work he had as- of whimsicality and interest. sumed, when he was suddenly called from an existence of much bodily pain and suffering. accuracy of the characteristic sketches His life had been chequered by various events we can, as far as our own acquaintance both of a prosperous and of an adverse na- goes, in most instances, cordially subture. In the paths of literature his exer- scribe. Two or three are, we think, rations had been attended with the most gra- ther roughly handled; but the Sexagenatifying success. Ile had moved in the first rian displays no malice, even where he circles of life; he had been fostered by the takes no pains to conceal that he felt regreat, and rewarded by the good. No sentment. This sometimes tinges the perhaps, of his age, possessed larger or more varied resources of curious and entertaining colouring, but it never destroys the lineascholarship. In literary anecdote, he was ments. his care. man, upon rich and fertile; in neat and appropriate It is impossible but that such a life of citations, he was unrivalled. His conversa intercourse with the great, the learned, tion was easy, elegant, and communicative; the mixed world, should abound with inand no scholar could leave his company without an addition to his stock of know-cident, and furnish ample stores for the ledge. As a friend he was respected and common-place book of any man, though beloved; among his acquaintance, indeed, of infinitely less observation and powers Ex. Gr. Poetry ascribed to Professor Porson. ON THE POPULAR PLAY OF PIZARRO. As I walked through the Strand so careless and gay, I met a young girl who was wheeling a barrow; So my apples I bought, and set off for Pizarro. Choice fruit, Sir, said she, and a bill of the play; When I got to the door, I was squeezed, and cried dear me, I wonder they made the entrance so narrow; The loving companion of gallant Pizarro. Had I been 'mong the Gods I had surely cried Nosy, Come play up a jig, and a fig for Pizarro. His boots were much neater than those of Then the priestess and virgins, in robes white and flowing, Walked solemnly on like a sow and her farrow, politely informed the whole house they And were going To entreat heaven's curses on noble Pizarro. Rolla made a fine speech with such logic and It grammar, As must sure raise the envy of Counsellor would sell for five pounds (were it brought to the hammer,) For it raised all Peru against valiant Pizarro. I have finished my song, if it had but a tune, I vow I would sing it from morning till noon, to furnish him with a motto. This same a most eccentric characterperson was very fond of his pipe-still more fond of his bottle-but withal, was very learned, and had an abundant store of facetiousness and humour. On his wealthy friend's appliWe shall observe no order in these se- cation for a motto, he gave him the followlections. The next is a very curious cir-ing: -" Quo mihi fortunam ?" Pizarro. cumstance: That, observed * *, would be a salute at A pert young Lady was walking one morning on the Steyne at Brighton, when she encountered our facetious friend. You see, Mr. I am come out for a little This was accordingly placed upon the What! to that thin lanky piece of furIn the year 1720, celebrated for the burst- carriage; but some of the banker's half-niture? It could not be from the lust of the ing of the South Sea bubble, a gentleman learned friends pretended to dispute its ac-flesh, for she has not an ounce upon her. called late in the evening at the banking-curacy; upon which, out of humour he At a dinner where great satisfaction was house of Messrs. Hankies and Co.-He was remonstrated with his clerical adviser for expressed, it was facetiously proposed that in a coach, but refused to get out, and de- imposing an incorrect motto upon him. the president should proceed to the kitchen, "Friend Roger," replied the old gentleman, and kiss the cook. sired that one of the partners of the house would come to him. Having ascertained "do you support your carriage, and I'll that it was really one of the principals, and support the motto." The motto is indeed not a clerk, who appeared, he put into his remarkable for the seeming spirit of prohands a parcel, very carefully sealed up and phecy with which it was communicated. protected, and desired that it might be laid The motto serves-the coach is no more. on one side till he should call again, which Anecdote of an Irish Bishop now living: would be in the course of a very few days. A young dashing Clergyman of high conA few days passed away-a few weeks did nections, who had a curacy in the diocese, the same, and indeed some months also, but did not think it important to be particularly the stranger returned no more. rigid and punctual in the discharge of his At the end of the second or third year, duty, but was too easily detained by the the partners agreed to open this mysterious allurements and blandishments of Dublin, parcel in the presence of each other. They from his too indulgent parishioners. This found it to contain thirty thousand pounds, at length reached his Lordship's ears, who for which she paid a penny. On receiving with a letter, stating that it was obtained by determined to ascertain the fact himself. the South Sea speculation, and directing that it should now be vested in the hands of three trustees, whose names were given, and the interest appropriated to the relief of the poor. Accordingly, on a Sunday he proceeded to Church, where he heard no bell knolling to Church, saw no parishioners chatting in the porch, nor any preparation for divine service. With some difficulty the clerk was found, to whom his Lordship was known. 46 What particular class of poor-whether the poor of London or of Westminster, or "Why is there no preparation for divine the poor sufferers by the bubble, was not service?" asked the Bishop. My Lord," specified, and the vagueness of the instruc- said the clerk, "our young master has not tions rendered the matter extremely perbeen among us this fortnight." "Ring the plexing. Under this difficulty, the partners bell immediately," said the Bishop. Upon or the trustees very properly applied to the this a congregation was soon assembled, to Lord Mayor and to the Law Officers of the whom his Lordship read prayers and Crown. If we are correct, Sir Dudley Ryder preached. was Attorney General at the time. It was The Bishop presumed that intelligence of agreed, that the capital should be vested in this matter would be communicated to the the names of the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and defaulting curate; but he nevertheless chose Attorney General, for the time being and to to make a second experiment of the kind, come, and that each of the three gentlemen and on the following Sunday repeated his nominated by the stranger as trustees, should visit to the same village. Here he found have the interest of ten thousand pounds, things precisely as before-no bell knolled to be distributed at his discretion for the use to Church-no peasants sitting on the of the poor. The stranger was never heard stones-no visible signs of population. The Bishop a second time sent for the clerk, asthe duty as before. sembled the congregation, and performed of afterwards. grave The following are taken at random: One of the trustees was a gentleman of Norfolk, whose family was well known to the Sexagenarian. During his life, he had a room fitted up with cases, shelves, drawers, &c. which was called the Poor's Room, and where coats, waistcoats, shirts, shifts, shoes, blankets, &c. were deposited for the use of proper applicants. The effect of this for the time, was the total annihilation of the poorrates in the particular parish where this trus-washed ? tee resided. The following is told of an individual, who, from meanness and poverty, rose to wealth and that dignity which money bestows: A whimsical anecdote is recorded of the above individual. When riches began to abound, he must needs set up his carriage, and he applied to the parson of the parish A. Yes. Q. Where was your face before it was I wish you at the devil, said somebody to I don't wish you there. Because I never wish to meet you again. From the devil. What is there going on there? sun and air. A woman of decent appearance came into a stationer's shop, where the Sexagenarian was present, and desired to purchase a pen, it, she returned it with the observation that it was good for nothing. Another was given her, but she gave this also back again with the same remark. On being asked what fault she had to find with them,-" Why how," she returned, "could they possibly be good for any thing, when both had a slit at the end?" There was a heavy Lord Mayor in Wilkes's time, who, by persevering steadily in the pursuit of one object, accumulated an immense fortune, and rose progressively from the dignity of Common Councilman to the State Coach, and the Mansion House. His first entrance into life was as a common bricklayer. At one of the Old Bailey dinners, his Lordship, after a sumptuous repast on turbot and venison, was eating an 'immense quantity of butter with his cheeseWhy Brother," said Wilkes, "you lay it on with a trowel." There is a singular anecdote of this same Lord Mayor, demonstrative of the parsimonious principles, by the exercise of which he doubtless rose to opulence. His only son was brought up in the same profession, and one day fell from a scaffold, and was killed by the fall. The father, who was present, on seeing the accident only exclaimed, "Take care of his watch." In the riots of the year 1780, which at the same time endangered and disgraced the metropolis, Wilkes was lamenting the ungovernable violence of a London mob ;-upon this, some brother citizen took him up shortly, and reminded him of the distur bances of which he had formerly been the occasion. "Sir," returned Wilkes, "I never was a Wilkite." Upon another occasion, Wilkes attended a city dinner, not long after his promotion to city honours. Among the guests was a noisy vulgar deputy, a great glutton, who on his entering the dinner-room always with great deliberation took off his wig, suspended it upon a pin, and with due solemnity put on |