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Old Man's Head, though each worthy of unqualified praise, I beg leave to refer to two large pieces, representing Abelard and Heloise. It would be giving a very incompetent idea of these two extraordinary pro- | ductions, merely to say that the art of embroidery can go no further it may be asserted with the utmost truth, that for brilliancy of effect, delicacy of execution, and characteristic expression, they are at least equal, if not superior to the finest proof impressions of the original copperplates.

It is therefore to be expected that during the short stay which Miss Pajeken intends to make, the English ladies, who are ever ready to distinguish and encourage ingenious foreigners, will not let slip this opportunity of patronizing a lady who has devoted years to the attainment of perfection in her I remain, Dear Sir,

art.

Yours, &c. H. E. L. Agreeably to our rule, we have seen this Exhibition: the coloured works may, for aught we know, be extraordinary in their way, but do not seem to deserve notice as belonging to the fine arts. The imitations of engraving are on the contrary quite unique and curious, and ingenious in the extreme, though rather scanty for

an Exhibition.-ED.

THE French papers relate the following singular circumstance relative to a picture which was lately sold at an auction in the village of Vertus, near Paris. The sale consisted of old furniture, and was attended only by a few petty brokers of the place. The chairs, tables, &c. were first sold, and the picture was next put up. It was valued at 36 francs, and was thought dear even at that price; however a little old man, in a broad-brimmed hat, stepped forward, and drawing on his spectacles, offered 100 francs. Several higher prices were afterwards bidden, and the picture was at length knocked down for twenty-five louis to a poor man, who worked as a common porter. The purchaser having shewn it to one of his friends, a picture dealer, learnt, to his astonishment, that it was a valuable Poussin. The picture has been cleaned, and several connoisseurs have been to see it. The owner has already been offered twelve thousand francs for it, but he declares he will not sell it for double that sum.-The subject is Venus Bathing.

SIR,

ARTISTS' GENERAL FUND.

It cannot but afford much gratification to every lover of art, to see the most distinguished names in the country, for rank and talent, united in the list of stewards

for the festival to be held at the Freemasons' Tavern on Monday the 3d of May, in aid of The Artists' General Benevolent Institution ;" and I sincerely hope that the object of the meeting will be crowned with success, by obtaining the sum required to enable the Directors to open the fund for the relief of decayed artists, their widows and orphans.

The fund was first established in the year

was unguessed,

'Twas to hide what she dared not reveal.

1814, and derived its origin from "The | If Clara said love was a trifle, a jest, If she smiled at the dupes who could feel, Artists' Benevolent Institution," and a Benefit Society connected with it, called "The She had cause-but, thank Heaven, that cause Artists' Joint Stock Fund," an Institution highly creditable to the good sense and prudence of its members, who, according to the amount of their quarterly contributions, are entitled to a weekly sum during illness, or while reduced to want.

A few of the subscribers to this charitable

fund for widows and orphans, feeling for the situation of those left destitute by the death of the husband or father previously to the establishment of this Society, and therefore not entitled to relief from the charitable fund, and also aware, in cases where either from inability to contribute, or from want of prudence and foresight, he had not become a member, that his family must become so much the greater objects of distress, determined to found "The Artists' General Benevolent Institution," open to all cases of merit and distress.

As the meeting is expected to be very numerous, the number of tickets to be issued will, I understand, be limited; and such arrangements have been made as will afford the best accommodation for the company, and for ladies in the gallery. I am, Sir, &c.

AN ARTIST.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

[By Correspondents.]
MAY DAY.

See the Sun the hills adorning
With the rosy blush of morning;
Nature smiles, and all is gay,
Welcome in "the First of May!"

See the tuneful lark on high,
Bear his matins to the sky;
Now its warbling note is rais'd,
Offering up-" my God be prais'd!'
Bounteous Nature! now will we
Celebrate this day to Thee!
Nature gladdens ev'ry scene;
View the daisy-spangled green,
And the turf on mountain tops,
Glitt'ring with the golden drops.

See the sparkling water run,
Silver'd by the noontide sun;
And the lowing cattle drink
At the crystal fountain's brink.
Bounteous Nature! xow will we
Celebrate this day to Thee!
Portsmouth.

From CLARA to

"

MCPHERSON.

In the hours when her thoughts seemed to wander

away

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In a dance of delight, there was pain In her bosom, that seemed to the laugher to sayShe should never be happy again.

She had dreamed such deep dreams of the hours

that were yet

To lead her through life by your sideBut the roses are withered, and she must forget By whose coldness 'twas done!-They have died!.

You are going to danger I feel my heart thrill

When I think on that land of the Sun: You'll find friends, you'll find lovers, but go where you will,

Who can love you like Clara?not one. ». Oh could you but feel-But 'tis done, and no

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Arriving late for dinner at a certain noble Lord's, I had just time to make a kind of circular obeisance to the Countess, and to the company to whom I was known,-to receive a significant, but good-humoured look, with a very gentle shake of the head, from her Ladyship, as much as to say, "You have just saved your distance, as usual; always late, but better late than never," to meet the supercilious eye of Lord C—, -to acknowledge the haughty bow of Lady Avanthier, the Nabob's wife, whose smile is a sneer, and whose toss of the head, after the common inclination of urbanity, seems as if her stiff neck upbraided her for the smallest penchant of condescension, and her curled-up lip and saucy nose mocked the forced smile which half, uncertain, would-be courtliness, had placed in their neighbourhood,-I had just time to receive the insincere pressure on my hand of the finger and thumb of a certain diplomatic character, so used to assumed import

How little he knows Clara's heart, who could ance and to pseudo amiability, that it

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don't forget you,"-finally, I was just long enough in the drawing-room to see the first title proudly armed out of the room with a conscious look of self-satisfaction, to behold the autumnal flowers in very high colour, cast a glance at the mirror as they passed by, and to join the Dii minorum gentium of Baronets, M.P.'s, and private gentlemen, in chattering common-place, as we descended the great stair-case, when I found myself placed by the side of a very lovely young woman, with a je ne sais quoi of interest and melancholy on her countenance, which (to me) rather heightened

her attractions.

Her smile was grave, and, as it were, dubious; her deportment timid, yet dignified; her voice more soothing than sprightly; and her dress rather neat than showy. Yet, as she advanced in her short table acquaintance with me, she gained ground considerably in the interest which she inspired. She was sensible, highly polished, and modest to a charm. Most of the company knew her. I was rather astonished, however, to perceive that she did not receive from the society that palm of preference which so much beauty and such finished manners claimed exclusively for her; for, when put in parallel with her titled and other female companions, who seemed for the most part to eye her with indifference, she was like the fairest lily, the most balmy rose, or the freshest violet, planted in a corner, and surrounded by gaudy tulips, poppies, and ranunculuses, of forced production, and over blown.

and unnaturally. My Lord observed, "She's
a nice girl," and then diverted the subject.
The Diplomatist found out that she wanted
usage du monde, which proved his want of
judgment; and the Nabob thought her too
light, not in conduct, but in purse, to merit
any more than, "She's very fair, but too
cold and grave." This he could not say of
his broad passion-flower of a wife.

for, by the hand of unfeeling avarice, or of selfish extravagance! Whilst all the pomp of heraldry emblazons the panels of vice's triumphant car with ducal mantels and coronets, proclaiming royal bastardy, and trumpeting kingly crimes! and whilst the swarthy or piebald progeny of Eastern plunderers gild over their low origin, and pass like bank tokens for sterling ore!

My interest increased with the neglect of What a shameful contrast! Is it not merit in my companions; and I attached cowardly to fix disgrace upon the innocent myself to her company as much as possi- offspring of a parent's guilt? Why should ble, when we returned to the ladies. I now these blushing, neglected unfortunates, had recourse to a ruse de guerre, in order want a father and a name? Are not many to learn something of her history; and, of them like accusing evidence at heaven's placing myself next to her in the music-high chancery against the unnatural authors room, I observed, "That I once knew a of their existence? Why are so few restiColonel White, that he was my particular tutions made for seduction? Why so friend abroad, and that I discovered a like many marriages of interest, which cut off ness." To this she answered, that she had from innocence all hopes of possessing a not the honour to know any one of the name. father? I was foolish enough to come back to the Because the base voluptuary is a stranger charge, and to mention Lord B- and a Baronet White, when a suffusion of deeper softer, tenderer ties; and thus his very to humanity; brutal passion knows no rose colour spread o'er her cheek, and she informed me that she did not know her stamp and image (for such most often, and parents, but had been educated by her pa-proaches or additional claims on the heart, for obviously wise purposes-living retron, Lord

My heart smote me for the flush, which I had occasioned; I made a lame retreat upon "What a loss her parents must have had, in being deprived of the pride of owning so perfect a creature ;" and I was mute nearly the rest of the evening.

I, however, took an opportunity of inquiring about her, of our Diplomate, who, assuming (which he generally did) mystery During dinner, she was accosted twice by and importance where none was required, the name of Emily; and my Lord once gave asked me if I never saw any one like her in her a half smile of good humour, in send- the House of Peers? I immediately recoling her, unasked, half the wing of a wood-lected the Countess's brother. Emily was cock, with a look which said, "I know you like this."

As I never heard her called any thing but Emily whilst at table, I took an opportunity, after the ladies had withdrawn, to ask

Lord what her family name was. "White," replied his Lordship; and he uttered the name as if it were a complete blank in the beau monde; for it is not uncommon, when a man names his friends (if perchance, happily, he have any,) or his acquaintance, or guests, to mention a little proudly,- -"a person of high public character," significantly," a beauty or an heiress," rapturously, and a commoner, or a fair incognito in high life," explanatorily, stating, "a good family, a good fortune, a person of talent, or of (what is more prized in a drawing-room) good expectancies."

his very image!

The bloated Nabob afterwards informed me, with a shrug of pity, that she was that Nobleman's natural child, that his Lordship had made a rich match, and had left her to the patronage of his sister, that our host thought it best to allow her to live in the family, being her guardian, and that she had a miserable two thousand pounds to her fortune, and was wholly unknown to her father, who had deserted her mother many years, and had a very jealous wife, who completely dragooned him.

"Tant mieux," replied I," he deserves not only to be dragooned by his wife, and to come under the lash of general censure, but to be shot for desertion, both of the mother and of the child. How many a lovely plant perishes in the shade, is cast from the parent stem, trampled under the feet of pride, and withers beneath the cold blast of neglect, which bloomed in promise, and might have flourished, an honour and an ornament to the hand that fostered and reared it! How many pining protegées we see in noble families, soi disunt foundlings, or orphans, whose vicious and unfeeling parents live but to disgrace and to disown them! How many a beauteous creature comes to ruin, wholly unprotected, or eduTwo or three insipids smiled mawkishlycated in elegance, and scantily provided

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My Lord named Miss White with bluff simplicity, making as little of the monosyllable as possible, as if it scarcely merited a place in his narration." She is well named," said I, for she is as fair as the unsullied snow; her beauty needs no high colouring of praise, as it speaks for itself; her eyes need no comment, since nature's letter of recommendation is there written in fine impressive character.

natural children are) is allowed to be consigned to servitude, or to infamy, whilst such a monster lolls in his chariot, feasts on every luxury, and pillows upon down. That shame and remorse may seize all such, is the denunciation of

THE HERMIT IN LONDON.

THE DRAMA.

early part of the present week, the theatres During the latter part of the last and the presented little to claim notice. The Heart of Mid Lothian, at the one house, continues to "create the most heart-felt interest," and a "Cure for the Heart Ache," was performed at the other, but with no effect of Comedy, though we are glad to see that Munden, Oxberry, Knight, and Johnstone, are now brought a little more into play.

DRURY LANE.-On Thursday, Mr. Kean re-appeared as Richard the Third, and trusted to his display of talent in the crook-backed tyrant, to get him through his dilemmas for his tyranny over Mr. Bucke. The effort succeeded. The jury was a special one, and good care had been taken to secure stout bodies in boxes, pit, and galleries. As for the public, if our observations were not utterly erroneous, it had nothing to do and little to say on either side. When Richard entered, he was hailed with that species of applause which is known to be peculiar to the partisans of Kean;rude, obstreperous, and boisterous; the shouting of vulgarity at a wrestling match, rather than the decent expression of approbation which becomes a theatre. This clamour, while it lasted, overbore all opposition, but those who condemned Kean's behaviour to Mr. Bucke, seemed to be perfectly aware that a few hisses and cries of Off, off" are of sufficient force to destroy

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POSTHUMOUS TRAVELS.-Professor Engel, being once at a dinner-party, where the conversation turned upon Capt. Cook, and his celebrated voyages round the world, an ignorant person, in order to contribute his mite towards social intercourse, asked him, "Pray was Cook killed on his first voyage?" I believe he was,' replied Engel, though he did not mind it much, but immediately entered upon the second.' BON MOT.-Madame Geoffrin disagreeing once with a literary gentleman, the dispute became very warm, and many high words were exchanged with great acrimony. "How now," said M. de Holbach, a mutual friend of theirs, stepping between them; "Can it be that you are clandestinely married?"

an actor's performance. They accordingly At Drury Lane, Mr. Moncrieff's comedy,
seized on each dreary pause," when the "Wanted a Wife," is announced for Mon-
vociferators stopped for want of lungs, and day. It embodies all the comic strength of
interpolated some very marked symptoms the house, and the performers are, it is
of hostility. After some struggle, how-reported, pleased with their parts.
ever, the contest was surmounted. Kean
exerted himself with singular energy in the
part, and his talents lifted him over the
difficulties of his misconduct. Hoping and
believing that the mortifying lessons he has
received, will render him more prudent and
more just in future, we cannot but say we
rejoice in this conclusion. Mr. Kean has
been forgiven, and will doubtless remem-
ber hereafter, that despotism and unfeel-
ingness in an actor, are likely to be visited
by a public fall and punishment. There is
a re-action of popular sentiment on all
such occasions, and even those who con-
demn as entirely as we have done Mr.
Kean's ill-treatment of the unfortunate
author, may agree with us in thinking that
it has been sufficiently exposed, and that
this exposure is an adequate infliction for
the offence. Some passages of the play, in
which the tyrant paints his duplicity and
malignity, were caught at and applied by
the Buckites; and all parties joined in tes-
tifying the most noisy regard for Mr. Rae,
when he came on the stage as Richmond.
At the close there was a great outcry, and
Kean was tempestuously demanded by the
audience. At length he appeared with Rae,
and whilst some applauded, others shouted
for an apology. Mr. Kean bowed like Sir Per-
Somebody main-
tinax Mac Sycophant, and very cunningly taining obstinately that the sun was not
declared that he was too much exhausted to going round the world, another asked,
address them now-well knowing that if he
got over the first night, he would have no
occasion to address them at all. Thus has
ended (we trust) the famous quarrel be-

tween Messrs. Bucke and Kean.

COVENT GARDEN.-A very clever and laughable farce, altered from the French, by Mr. Morton, and entitled "A Roland for an Oliver," was produced here on Thursday. It was completely and deservedly successful. Laughter, the best applause of a farce, followed almost every scene, and proclaimed in a way which would have shattered Lord Chesterfield's nerves, the whim and humour of the performance. The chief characters were admirably sustained by Messrs. Fawcett, Jones, Emery, and Abbott: Miss Foote and Miss Beaumont also contributed a fair share to the triumph of the piece. The lateness of the period in the week prevents our giving even a sketch of the plot, if such a thing be necessary; but perhaps our readers, having heard of breaking a butterfly upon the wheel, may concede to us, that giving at length the plot of a "Farce, with some music," would be stretching a cricket on the bed of Procrustes.

Fredolfo, Mr. Maturin's new tragedy, comes out next Wednesday at Covent Garden. We hear that it is a little romantic in plot, and often highly poetical in its diction.

A PURSUIT HAPPILY DEFINED. - The young and amiable Prince of *** pursuing in great haste a beautiful lady at Court, "Your Highness is running very fast," observed the lady; I am only following my inclination,' he replied.

NEW ASTRONOMY.

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But how is it then possible he should set every night, and rise again on the opposite side every morning? Ridiculous,' replied the first, the sun goes back the same way, only we don't observe it, because it happens during the night.'

The Queen's library is to be sold by public auction in a few weeks.

We are requested to state, upon certain authority, that the VAMPYRE is NOT written by Lord Byron, and that his Lordship is totally ignorant of the publication. Albemarle Street, April 29.

SIR,

I beg the favour of your insertion of the above paragraph. I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,
JOHN MURRAY

To the Editor of the Literary Gazette.

We have been requested by the publishers of the VAMPYRE to state, that it appears by the following letter, addressed to the Editor of the New Monthly Magazine, that the groundwork of that Tale alone belongs to Lord Byron.

To the Editor of the New Monthly Magazine. "SIR-As the person referred to in the letter from Geneva, prefixed to the Tale of the Vampyre in your last Number, I beg leave to state that your Correspondent has been mistaken in attributing that tale in its present form to Lord Byron. The fact is, that though the groundwork is certainly Lord's Byron's, its development is mine, produced at the request of a Lady, who denied the possibility of any thing being drawn from the materials which Lord Byron had said he intended to have employed in the

formation of his Ghost story. I am, &c. J. W. POLIDORI."

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

APRIL.

Thursday, 22-Thermometer from 41 to 49.
Barometer from 30, 02 to 30, 08.
Wind NbE. -Cloudy.
Friday, 23.-Thermometer from 40 to 49.
Barometer from 29, 98 to 29, 87.
Wind NE. 2.-Cloudy.
Saturday, 24.-Thermometer from 40 to 50.
Barometer from 29, 87 to 29, 77.

Wind NE. 2.-Cloudy.

In September 1802, such a number of
of the Conservatoire de Musique," at
dissensions prevailed among the professors
Paris, that it was feared the Institution was
going to be dissolved. A wit wrote the Sunday, 25.-Thermometer from 42 to 48.
following epigram on the occasion :-

"J'admire leurs talens et même leur génie,
Mais, au fait, ils ont un grand tort;
C'est de s'intituler Professeurs d'harmonie,
Et de n'être jamais d'accord.
A very ignorant person being compli
mented on his good sense, in presence of a
clever lady, "I don't wonder," said she,

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at his possessing a large stock of good sense, he never spends any."

A meanly dressed performer beginning the part of Mithridate, in Racine's celebrated play of the same name :—

"Enfin, après un an, je te revois, Arbate;"

Somebody from the pit replied very point-
edly,

"Avec les mêmes bas and la même cravate."

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

We hear that the famous collection of

the Duke of Marlborough, in which the
memorable Boccacio is contained, is also
about to be submitted to the hammer.

Rain fallen, 125 of an inch.

Barometer from 29, 89 to 30, 15, Wind NE. 2.-Generally clondy, till the evening, when it became clear.

Rain fallen, 2 of an inch.

Monday, 26.-Thermometer from 30 to 52.
Barometer from 30, 29 to 30, 33.
Wind NE. and EbS. 1.-Generally clear.
Tuesday, 27.-Thermometer from 30 to 52.
Barometer from 30, 33, to 30, 27.
Wind SE. 1.-Clear; ice in some puddles, and
in the pluviameter.

Wednesday, 28.-Thermometer from 28 to 58.
Barometer from 30, 41, to 30, 36.
Wind S.E 14.-Generally clear.-The white
frost this morning continued strong on the
ground till eight o'clock, in the shade.
Edmonton, Middlesex.

JOHN ADAMS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A continuation of the communications signed “A FOREIGNER," will be very acceptable. We thank the writer heartily.

"Tom Byron" may be answered with a quotation, "Tom Fool will do as well."

The Life of Körner is received.

temporary matters, we are again induced to postpone For the sake of variety, and to make room for the continuation of our Review on the Mission to

Ashantee, Extracts from Von Hammer's Travels, &c. &c.

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This day is published, royal folio, 31. 105.

PICTURESQUE VIEWS of the celebrated

ANTIQUITIES of POLA. By THOMAS ALLASON, Architect. Engraved by W. B. Cooke, Henry Moses, and Cosmo Armstrong.

Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street.

Sale of the London Museum.

MR. BULLOCK respectfully announces to the

Public, that the Sale by Auction of the Works of Art in the Roman Gallery at the Egyptian Hall in Picca

dilly, which commenced on Thursday last, will be followed

by that of the Museum of Natural History on Tuesday. To be viewed two days previous. The Catalogues, without which no Person can be admitted, either to the sale or view, will be published in Parts, each containing six days sale, at is. 6d. each. The first and second Parts

THE PRIZES in TOMKINS'S PICTURE may now be had at the Museum, which will be closed in

LOTTERY, valued at 152,225ł. are now on View, at No. 54, New Bond Street, where Tickets, price 31. 38. each, are on Sale; also by P. W. and F. P. Tomkins, No. 53, New Bond Street; Longman and Co. Paternoster- Row; Cadell and Davies, Strand; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. No. 90, Cheapside; J. W. Whiteley, No. 103, Newgate

a few Days, previous to its arrangement for Sale.

New Publications.

Early in May will be published, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Street; P. Colnaghi and Co. Cockspur Street; and at TALES of the HALL. all the Lottery Offices.

Artists' General Benevolent Institution.

By the Rev. GEORGE CRABBE. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street. Preparing for publication,

THE object of this Institution is, by an appeal A TRANSLATION of the ORLANDO FU

to public liberality, to extend RELIEF to DISTRESSED ARTISTS, whose Works are known and esteemed by the Public, as well as to their WIDOWS and ORPHANS-Merit and Distress forming the only claim to its benevolence.

The Subscribers and Friends to the Institution will celebrate the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL in Freemasons' Hall, on Monday next, the 3d of May, on which interesting occasion it is proposed to announce the Opening of the Funds.

H.R.H. the DUKE of SUSSEX, Joint Patron of the
Institution, in the Chair.
STEWARDS.

H. G. the Duke of Bedford
Most Nob. Marq. Anglesea
Most Noble Marq. Camden
Most NobleMarq.Lansdown
Rt. Hon. Earl of Liverpool
Rt. Hon. Earl Aberdeen
Rt. Hon. Earl Ashburnham
Rt. Hon. Earl Bridgewater
Rt. Hon. Earl Coventry
Rt. Hon. Earl Darnley
Rt. Hon. Earl of Hardwicke
Rt. Hon. Earl of Manvers
Hon. the Earl of Pomfret
Rt. Hon. Lord Dundas
Sir Thomas Baring, Bt M P
Sir Geo. Beaumont, Bart
Sir Benj. Hobhouse, Bart
Sir John F. Leicester, Bart
Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bt M P
John Dent, Esq M P
William Manning, Esq MP
William Smith, Esq M P
G.Watson Taylor, Esq MP
J.T.Thorp, Esq Ald M P
William Williams, Esq M
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird
John Allnutt, Esq
John Hombrough, Esq.
Henry Philip Hope, Esq
Thos. Hope, Esq
Jesse Watts Russell, Esq
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J. M. W. Turner, Esq RA
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R. Westmacott, Esq R A
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W. Daniell, Esq ARA
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Robert Ashby, Esq
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J. W. Childe, Esq
Edward Conduit, Esq
C. Corbould, Esq
James Cundy, Esq
J. H. Deacon, Esq
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John Glover, Esq

J. S. Hayward, Esq
PT. C. Hoffland, Esq

W. Linton, Esq
J. Lonsdale, Esq
Geo. Morant, Esq
W. J. Newton, Esq
G. R. Nuttall, MD
A. Robertson, Esq
J. Sawrey, Esq
G. Vincent, Esq

J. Vine, Esq

C. J. Wichelo, Esq W. Woodburne, Esq H. Wright, Esq M. Wyatt, Esq Dinner on Table at half-past Five. Tickets 11. 18. each to be had of the Stewards; and at the Bar of the Craven Hotel, Craven-street, Strand, until Saturday, May 1. Application for Ladies' Tickets to the Gallery to be made to John Young, Esq. Hon. Sec. 65, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.

RIOSO, of ARIOSTO, with a Life and Notes.
By WILLIAM STEWART ROSE.
Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street.

This Day is published, in 8vo. price 9s. 6d.

TRAGIC DRAMAS, chiefly intended for Re-
presentation in Private Families. To which is added,
Aristomedus, a Tragedy, from the Italian of Vincenzo
Monti.
By FRANCES BURNEY.

Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street.

In May will be published, 8vo.

This Day is published, in one vol. 8vo. with upwards of 100 Wood-cuts, Diagrams, Plates, &c. 255. bds.

A MANUAL of CHEMISTRY; containing the

principal Facts of the Science, arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the Lectures at the Royal Institution. With a Prefatory History of the Science. By W. T. BRANDE, F.R.S. Secretary to the Royal Society, and Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution.

Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. This Day is published, in svo. with plates, 7s. 6d.

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