Jupiter is invisible from his proximity to the Sun. 20d 0h 15m-in conjunction with the Sun. Saturn is in a favourable position for observation, five degrees and a half east of the bright star Regulus.

Uranus is too near the Sun to be observed.
Deptford.
J. T. B.

LITERARY AND LEARNED.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

ON Thursday week, Mr. Hallam, V.P., in the chair; several members were elected. The secretary commenced the reading of a paper communicated by S. Woodward, Esq., relative to Roman antiquities in the county of Norfolk, with a map. Mr. Woodward expressed the very laudable desire that antiquaries in the country would contribute to the Society maps of their respective districts with reference to the time of the Romans, and with a view to the composition of a Roman map of Great Britain. -Adjourned for the Christmas holydays, to next Thursday week.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.

conspiracy was to render the king independent | quires the evidence of more than one witness
of the aristocracy and the laws, by enabling to induce us to believe it; for one witness may
him to levy subsidies, &c., without consulting be deceived, or may forget and confound what
parliament: it terminated in the defeat and he has heard from others with what he has
capture of the conspirators, by the army of the seen himself, and err in his narrative, without
nobility, under Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of any intention of imposing on the world. I
Derby; and was followed by the exile of the must now mention a circumstance related by
Archbishop and confiscation of his estates, and the Major, and extracted by you, which makes
by the execution or banishment of his asso- more against him than the severest criticism I
ciates. The narrative appears to have been ever heard respecting him. I mean the tra-
the work of a partisan of the Duke of Glou-veller's evasive and witty answer to Single-
speech Hamilton's requesting him to draw
A further reading followed, from Professor something in as good a style as those drawings
Lee's Memoir on the Origin of Heathenism. of his which had been said to be done by Ba-
The Professor contends, in this portion of his lugani. This answer should not have been
essay, that the heresies of the first centuries brought forward by the counsel for the de-
were a mere adaptation of the emanation system fendant, and proves how true the Spanish pro-
of the heathen philosophers, to the form, and verb is," Save me from my friends."
under the name, of Christianity; and examines
Lardner's able attempts to refute the charges
brought against the early heresiarchs.
Several members were elected at this meeting.

cester.

HEAD'S EDITION OF BRUCE'S TRAVELS.
To the Editor, &c.

I must now, Mr. Editor, express my surprise that in a work of such merit as the Literary Gazette, the errors I have alluded to should have escaped detection. I feel as much abashed as the man who met Cato in a state of intoxication. Pray be a little more circumspect in future; and recollect that, in a work so near perfection as yours, and of such extensive circulation, the slightest inaccuracies cannot escape detection.

December 24, 1830.

Z.

FINE ARTS.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
National Portrait Gallery. Part XXI.
Fisher and Co.

SIR,-In one of the extracts from Major Head's Life of Bruce, given in your criticism on that work, which appeared in the Literary Gazette of Dec. 18, I was surprised to see that the author had been guilty of a very great mistake respecting the illustrious Johnson, whom he accuses of having, in his preface to his translation of the Jesuit Jerome Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia (which the Major asserts was published when the work of Bruce was eagerly expected by the public), thrown out reflections THE portraits in this Part are those of the against the veracity of the latter traveller. Marquess of Anglesey, a superb engraving; of Now, as Bruce was born in 1733, and Johnson the Earl of Carlisle, replete with expression translated Lobo's Voyage, and wrote the pre- and excellence; and of Sir Capt. John Frankface to it, in the same year, 1733, and it was lin, strikingly characteristic. Without speakpublished in 1735, the Doctor must have added ing of the biographical sketches (as we yet owe to his other endowments the gift of prophecy, a notice to Part XX.) we can truly say, that if he had intended any attack on Bruce's repu- three likenesses, of such a quality in art, and tation. It is really melancholy that such gross of such national interest, at twice the cost of errors should be found in works professing to these, would excite our wonder and admiration. be particularly designed for the instruction of MEETING of Wednesday, Dec. 15.-Two an- youth: yet Major Head seems to be perfectly Her Serene Highness Marie Thérèse, Princess cient Latin manuscripts, in the possession of confident in his own accuracy, and censures Esterhazy. Engraved by Dean, from an Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., were presented Johnson, by whom, he says, "these round original miniature by Holmes. M. Colnaghi. for the inspection of the meeting, and an ac- rigmarole sentences were rolled against Bruce," SOMEWHAT too voluptuous, perhaps, for a count of their contents, in a letter from Sir &c. With respect to the Major's apparent" Serene Highness;" but, nevertheless, a very Thomas to the secretary, was read. One of contempt of the style of the great moralist and beautiful portrait of a very beautiful woman. them, a document of the 12th or beginning of critic, if it prevents him from reading the It is the seventy-third of the series of the the 13th century, entitled "Mappa Clavicula," Rambler, and the Lives of the Poets, I pity Female Nobility, in La Belle Assemblée. contains a description of the various materials him, as he loses as high intellectual pleasure used in the art of painting and illuminating in as a human being is capable of enjoying: but The King. From an original drawing of those centuries, with the composition of the let him not insult the ashes of the mighty dead J. Jenkins. S. Gans. ingredients for forming the different colours, with erroneous accusations. As to the opinion Or the great, and we may add the fortunate, &c.; and, consequently, throws some light which it is said Johnson expressed, "that after upon the state of chemical knowledge at that conversing a second time with Bruce, he doubted popularity of our most gracious sovereign, the early period. The art of gilding and writing if he had been in Africa," it must have been kind, which have been published since his number of portraits of him of an inexpensive in gold letters is likewise explained; and the given many years after the former dates I have composition of the ground upon which the gold mentioned, for Bruce returned from his travels accession, affords a striking proof. That under our notice conveys a strong resemblance of the was laid, with the method of burnishing it, at the end of the year 1761; and it was an opiroyal countenance. an art which is said to be now lost, as far as nion he held in common with many others. I relates to the illumination of MSS. This ma- agree, however, with Major Head, that Bruce A second letter on the same subject, and signed "A nuscript likewise describes several other mecha. was unfairly treated by the public; and al- Friend," has reached us; but the foregoing supersedes nical arts, as practised at the above period; though his violently forcing a timid man to eat the necessity for publishing more than its concluding passuch as, the formation of glass, the method of raw beef, is no reason that we should swallow sage: The major should know, that the biography of men dead before our own times, requires something more, dyeing skins, the mode of poisoning arrows, of his account of the Abyssinians cutting beef- and is not to be properly handled by Rough Sketches making battering rams and other warlike im- steaks from the living animal; yet when we re-Rapid Journeys must be changed to reading nights and quist studies, if we wish to become acquainted with the plements, &c. The subject of the other ma- flect, that in this civilised country eels are flayed contemporaries of our hero-a knowledge not wholly nuscript is a narrative of the conspiracy of the and lobsters are boiled alive, we may easily superfluous, at least it used not to be considered so. Archbishop of York, and others, in the reign credit any narrative that tells us of the selfish the school-master is abroad, and intellect is marching fast, perchance, into ignorance." With regard to our of Richard II. It is entitled "Succincta His- and remorseless cruelty of man. The wonder own share of blame for overlooking the anachronism in toria de facinoribus Alexandri Nevyle, Archi- is, how the remainder of the animal from our notice of the volume, we can only throw ourselves on the mercy of our readers. It certainly did not strike us episcopi Ebor.; Robti. de Veer, Ducis Hiberniæ; which a feast has been made, should be able to at the moment, when, relying on the author, we negMich. de la Pole, Comitis Suffolk, Cancellarii walk on in a climate where severe wounds are lected to compare dates; and thus, in the haste constantly Angliæ; Robti. Tresylian, Capitalis Justiciarii; soon followed by mortification of the injured shewed less of critical acuteness than, we trust, is our attendant upon a periodical of very frequent appearance. et Nich. Brembre, militis." The object of the part; and the wonder is so great, that it re- wont.-Ed. L. G.

But

The Poetical Works of William Cowper. In 2 vols. London, 1830. W. Pickering. WHEN we say these volumes (the Aldine Edition of the Poets,) go on as they have begun, we give them the highest possible praise. As in republishing works considered standard in literature, the efforts of the bookseller are more matter of criticism than those of the author, whose fame is supposed to be established, we beg to refer the readers to a very just compliment paid Mr. Pickering, in the life here prefixed. Such an edition does equal credit to the taste and industry of its publisher. A memoir of the poet is prefixed, embracing the principal events of his life; but not calling for any particular criticism. By the by, it contains a whimsical misprint. Page lxxxiv. " plaintiff ballad " is printed instead of plaintive.

better than could have been expected, in defiance of government surveyor has not one to assist him. The
of the disaffected; and, considering the great benefit board the Cumberland, but she was wrecked off Cape
calumny, interested reports, and the false representations materials for a printing-press were on their way hither on
which our newly formed colony must prove to Van Die- Leuwin some months ago, while hauling too close to that
men's Land and New South Wales, for the next seven or headland in the night, and with her perished types and
eight years at least, it is quite surprising that it should every thing connected with them."
be so fashionable to endeavour to cry it down, as we The Hobart Town Courier also contains some
shall assuredly afford you an additional market for your
produce.
interesting particulars relative to an expedition
into another quarter of the interior, which we

"I assure you, that our colonising extends rapidly to
the southward, and has already reached as far as Cape
bay into which a large body of water empties itself over
Lieuwin, round the east side of which is a considerable subjoin.
"Very favourable accounts have been received of the
a shallow channel of only three or four feet. Several success of the expedition sent by government, under
rivers flow from the interior country into this lake. The Mr. Robinson, to conciliate the native tribes. The news
principal one has been named the Blackwood, and about has reached us by the way of the Van Diemen's Land
fifty settlers are already there to occupy its banks; more Company's establishment at Circular-head. Mr. Robin-
are about to follow; and when our military force is in- son, it appears, after making his way from Port Davey to
third regiment, a detachment of troops will be sent there. accounts of him were received, and where he obtained a
creased beyond one company, sixty men of the sixty- Macquarie Harbour, from which latter place the last
The site of a town, to be called Augusta (in honour of reinforcement of supplies, had arrived within thirty miles
the Duke of Sussex, the name of whose title is attached of Circular-head. During this course he had frequent
to the whole district or country), has been fixed upon at intercourse with several tribes, all of them of the most
the junction of this lake with the sea. The country is friendly nature. On one or two occasions he passed
represented to be very good here, and easy of access, with several days and nights alone amongst them, finding it
very fine timber and plenty of water. There can be little prudent to send his companions apart to avoid a little
Wilson's journey northward from King George's Sound, several whites were collected together. We consider this
doubt of its continuing good to the extremity of Dr. jealousy which some of them appeared to have when
which was about seventy miles, where he left the country as one of the most fortunate circumstances that could
good and gently undulating; and there were some very have occurred in the island, leading, as we trust it will do,
considerable sheets of water in view, the connexion of to the most happy results, in finally putting a period to
which with the sea had not been ascertained. I have the late sanguinary and mistaken attacks of this unhappy
made a trip with the lieutenant governor to Cape Na- people. Great praise is due to the skill and unwearied
turaliste, Geographe Bay, and the coast between it and perseverance displayed by Mr. Robinson and all his enter-
the Swan. I was exceedingly gratified with the general prising party on this occasion, the spirit of which must be
results; and at Port Leschenault we left a detachment kept up with energy; while it admonishes us more than
of fifteen soldiers, under an officer and sergeant, and ac- ever to co-operate as much as we possibly can in other
companied by our colonial surgeon. The character of parts of the island, by catching and gaining them over to
the country here is superior to any part I have seen, ex- civilisation, or else effectually to deter them from conti-
cept the Swan; and in point of timber it is unequalled nuing their ravages on the confines of the settled districts.
by any I have seen in the country, consisting mostly of a An attempt is now making to introduce Chinese labourers
species of mahogany, of a red colour, which will form a amongst us, but it is by no means impossible nor hopeless
valuable export. Unlike the soil in most other places, that we shall ultimately be enabled to tame and instruct
tinues a rich brown earth for many miles inland and
it is here good in many parts close to the sea, and con- these poor people to habits of useful industry."
across the mountains, which lie from five to six leagues
from the coast. This is the distance they generally pre-
but behind Leschenault they turn off to the S.E., and from 20d 5h 33m-the Sun enters Aquarius.
Lunar Phases and Conjunctions.

serve from the coast in the whole extent from Swan River;

Cape Naturaliste and Geographe Bay are not visible. The
southern angle is abrupt and sandy, and is the extremity
of a cluster of hills on the main ridge, called Roe's
Range, so named after the surveyor-general. It is about
twelve miles in length, north and south; and from the
valley at each extremity, issues a fine river, which empties
itself into the large sheet of water called Port Leschenault.
The Collie, which is the northernmost, is the finest river,
and, after passing a bar at its entrance, is navigable for
large boats to the distance of twenty miles, where the site
of a town has been fixed. Another river empties itself
into the Collie about ten miles from its entrance, and
appears to flow from the interior through a considerable
break in the mountains, (Talbot Vale,) ten miles north
from the Collie. This river is occupied on both banks,
and to the extent of 100,000 acres, by the establishment
of Lieut.-Colonel Latour, who has considerable property
in Van Diemen's Land.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR JANUARY.

D. H. M. 5 10 54 New Moon in Sagittarius .... 13 13 37 First Quarter in Četus... 20 19 29 O Full Moon in Cancer ....... 27 14 33

Last Quarter in Virgo.

The Moon will be in conjunction with

Saturn in Leo...
Jupiter in Sagittarius
Venus in Capricornus
Mercury in Capricornus
Mars in Aries..
Saturn in Leo

D. H. M.

1 23 7

13 23 20

14 1 30 15 1 20 20 14 0 29 6 7

IT appeared from a recent debate in the House of Commons, that our government were not in possession of despatches from the Swan River settlement beyond January 1830; but private letters, and accounts in newspapers, bring down intelligence to a much later date. We have the Hobart Town Courier, a very well-conOccultation of Aldebaran.-This remarkable ducted and able journal, to August 14, which contains some curious notices of its new neigh-river, and is already occupied from the entrance to the of the 23d. The Preston is the southern star will be occulted by the moon on the night bours. For instance, a description of the ear-mountains, as well as much of the intermediate space liest periodical which they have produced. As between it and the Collie. It is navigable for about seven follows:

The

Immersion
Emersion .......

II. M. S. 9 46 40

10 18 37

miles up, where the site of a township has also been fixed, as well as at the entrance of the large sheet of water "The Western Australia Gazette is written on a sheet which passes by the name of Port Leschenault, whereas The following diagram will shew the position of small demy paper; and the price, marked on it in red it is in fact but a shallow lagoon, seven or eight miles in ink, is 3s. 6d. The editor labours to prove its vast im-length, and two or three in breadth, with only four or five of the moon at the time, and the points of importance to the colony. He is, however, either himself, feet water at its entrance. The anchorage is sheltered mersion and emersion. or his amanuensis, but an indifferent scholar; for many from all points except between N. and W.N.W., but of the words are mispelt, and some of the sentences un- cannot be recommended for a winter resort on account of grammatical. the prevailing north-westerly winds at that season. "As to the weather, he says: In the course of last rivers northward of Port Leschenault, which flow into ter various unfavourable circumstances have con- two similar sheets of water to those already mentioned, tried to disappoint the expectations of the agricul- are of the same description. The most northern of the tort The seed process is retarded greatly; and the two is called the Murray, and has its estuary on the north series of dry, cold, and barren weather (rather a poetical side of Cape Bouvard of the charts. It is the southern epithet as applied to weather) which we have experi- boundary of Mr. Peel's land, which extends thence across eace, has hardened the soil in a remarkable degree, and the mountains, and is bounded on the north by a line much impeded the progress of vegetation. We have had running due east from the bottom of Cockburn Sound. e refreshing showers of late, the good effects of which This is a new tract of country for him, or at least not the soon became visible; but the crops in general, and the space he intended to occupy when he left England, as he own grass in particular, have received a shock from did not arrive in time, but his present grant contains a which they are not likely to recover.'"-June 1. greater quantity of good land than his original intended one, and a large party of his people are satisfactorily at We are sorry to say that our authority adds: work upon a portion of it. In consequence of the late "Provisions were getting very scarce at the settlement, shipwrecks in Gage's roads, a new anchorage has been and it was evident that farther supplies would be wanted taken up, about a mile to the southward, called Britannia from Van Dieman's Land. The editor says, nearly roads, from the brig Britannia having first used it, and, two thousand open mouths have been daily expecting in company with the Orelia, having rode out the late apples, and witnessed with great satisfaction the arri-gales in them without being at all distressed. The town val of the Eliza, with a cargo from Hobart Town."" of Freemantle will now be extended to the coast opposite these roads, where the water runs deep close to the shore, The annexed is still later: it is an extract of A letter dated Perth, Western Australia, June

8, 1830.

"We have had a most unwelcome visiter here in the hape of ophthalmia, and it is only now taking its dearture, after having attacked the majority of our member, and considerably retarded that progress which, der existing circumstances, it is so desirable carly colos should endeavour to attain. We are getting on

Em

11d Mercury at his greatest elongation for the convenience of shipping. The government has (13° 58') as an evening star: his position at lately laid down some buoys and beacons for the guidance the time will be 6' distant from the planet of the shipping in Cockburn Sound, which is an excellent Uranus, which will not be visible, from its and safe anchorage. Carpenters here earn 78. a-day, and labourers 5s., independent of their food; but many in dented servants come out to Mr. Peel, and others who are not yet in a condition to employ them in such numbers, and they are consequently thrown on the public to look for employment, which will speedily reduce the rate of wages. Surveyors are much wanted, for I believe the

feeble light and proximity to the solar rays. 13d-ascending node. 17-stationary. 18perihelion. 26d 5h 30m-inferior conjunction.

Venus is too near the Sun for satisfactory observation. 12d 8bin conjunction with Ju

Jupiter is invisible from his proximity to the Sun. 20d 0h 15m in conjunction with the Sun. Saturn is in a favourable position for observation, five degrees and a half east of the bright star Regulus.

Uranus is too near the Sun to be observed.
Deptford.
J. T. B.

LITERARY AND LEARNED.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

with a map.

ON Thursday week, Mr. Hallam, V.P., in the chair; several members were elected. The secretary commenced the reading of a paper communicated by S. Woodward, Esq., relative to Roman antiquities in the county of Norfolk, Mr. Woodward expressed the very laudable desire that antiquaries in the country would contribute to the Society maps of their respective districts with reference to the time of the Romans, and with a view to the composition of a Roman map of Great Britain. --Adjourned for the Christmas holydays, to next Thursday week.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.

conspiracy was to render the king independent | quires the evidence of more than one witness
of the aristocracy and the laws, by enabling to induce us to believe it; for one witness may
him to levy subsidies, &c., without consulting be deceived, or may forget and confound what
parliament: it terminated in the defeat and he has heard from others with what he has
capture of the conspirators, by the army of the seen himself, and err in his narrative, without
nobility, under Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of any intention of imposing on the world. I
Derby; and was followed by the exile of the must now mention a circumstance related by
Archbishop and confiscation of his estates, and the Major, and extracted by you, which makes
by the execution or banishment of his asso- more against him than the severest criticism I
ciates. The narrative appears to have been ever heard respecting him. I mean the tra-
the work of a partisan of the Duke of Glou-veller's evasive and witty answer to Single-
speech Hamilton's requesting him to draw
A further reading followed, from Professor something in as good a style as those drawings
Lee's Memoir on the Origin of Heathenism. of his which had been said to be done by Ba-
The Professor contends, in this portion of his lugani. This answer should not have been
essay, that the heresies of the first centuries brought forward by the counsel for the de-
were a mere adaptation of the emanation system fendant, and proves how true the Spanish pro-
of the heathen philosophers, to the form, and verb is, "Save me from my friends."
under the name, of Christianity; and examines
Lardner's able attempts to refute the charges
brought against the early heresiarchs.
Several members were elected at this meeting.

cester.

HEAD'S EDITION OF BRUCE'S TRAVELS.
To the Editor, &c.

I must now, Mr. Editor, express my surprise that in a work of such merit as the Literary Gazette, the errors I have alluded to should have escaped detection. I feel as much abashed as the man who met Cato in a state of intoxication. Pray be a little more circumspect in future; and recollect that, in a work so near perfection as yours, and of such extensive circulation, the slightest inaccuracies cannot escape detection.

December 24, 1830.

FINE ARTS.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Z.

National Portrait Gallery. Part XXI.
Fisher and Co.

original miniature by Holmes. M. Colnaghi. SOMEWHAT too voluptuous, perhaps, for a "Serene Highness;" but, nevertheless, a very beautiful portrait of a very beautiful woman. It is the seventy-third of the series of the Female Nobility, in La Belle Assemblée.

SIR,-In one of the extracts from Major Head's Life of Bruce, given in your criticism on that work, which appeared in the Literary Gazette of Dec. 18, I was surprised to see that the author had been guilty of a very great mistake respecting the illustrious Johnson, whom he accuses of having, in his preface to his translation of the Jesuit Jerome Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia (which the Major asserts was published when the work of Bruce was eagerly expected by the public), thrown out reflections THE portraits in this Part are those of the against the veracity of the latter traveller. Marquess of Anglesey, a superb engraving; of Now, as Bruce was born in 1733, and Johnson the Earl of Carlisle, replete with expression translated Lobo's Voyage, and wrote the pre- and excellence; and of Sir Capt. John Frankface to it, in the same year, 1733, and it was lin, strikingly characteristic. Without speakpublished in 1735, the Doctor must have added ing of the biographical sketches (as we yet owe to his other endowments the gift of prophecy, a notice to Part XX.) we can truly say, that if he had intended any attack on Bruce's repu- three likenesses, of such a quality in art, and tation. It is really melancholy that such gross of such national interest, at twice the cost of errors should be found in works professing to these, would excite our wonder and admiration. be particularly designed for the instruction of MEETING of Wednesday, Dec. 15.-Two an- youth: yet Major Head seems to be perfectly Her Serene Highness Marie Thérèse, Princess cient Latin manuscripts, in the possession of confident in his own accuracy, and censures Esterhazy. Engraved by Dean, from an Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., were presented Johnson, by whom, he says, "these round for the inspection of the meeting, and an ac- rigmarole sentences were rolled against Bruce," count of their contents, in a letter from Sir &c. With respect to the Major's apparent Thomas to the secretary, was read. One of contempt of the style of the great moralist and them, a document of the 12th or beginning of critic, if it prevents him from reading the the 13th century, entitled "Mappa Clavicula,' Rambler, and the Lives of the Poets, I pity contains a description of the various materials him, as he loses as high intellectual pleasure used in the art of painting and illuminating in as a human being is capable of enjoying: but those centuries, with the composition of the let him not insult the ashes of the mighty dead ingredients for forming the different colours, with erroneous accusations. As to the opinion Or the great, and we may add the fortunate, &c.; and, consequently, throws some light which it is said Johnson expressed, "that after upon the state of chemical knowledge at that conversing a second time with Bruce, he doubted popularity of our most gracious sovereign, the number of portraits of him of an inexpensive early period. The art of gilding and writing if he had been in Africa," it must have been kind, which have been published since his in gold letters is likewise explained; and the given many years after the former dates I have| composition of the ground upon which the gold mentioned, for Bruce returned from his travels accession, affords a striking proof. That under our notice conveys a strong resemblance of the was laid, with the method of burnishing it, at the end of the year 1761; and it was an opiroyal countenance. an art which is said to be now lost, as far as nion he held in common with many others. I relates to the illumination of MSS. This ma- agree, however, with Major Head, that Bruce nuscript likewise describes several other mecha. was unfairly treated by the public; and alnical arts, as practised at the above period; though his violently forcing a timid man to eat such as, the formation of glass, the method of raw beef, is no reason that we should swallow dyeing skins, the mode of poisoning arrows, of his account of the Abyssinians cutting beefmaking battering rams and other warlike im- steaks from the living animal; yet when we replements, &c. The subject of the other ma- flect, that in this civilised country eels are flayed nuscript is a narrative of the conspiracy of the and lobsters are boiled alive, we may easily Archbishop of York, and others, in the reign credit any narrative that tells us of the selfish of Richard II. It is entitled "Succincta His. and remorseless cruelty of man. The wonder toria de facinoribus Alexandri Nevyle, Archi- is, how the remainder of the animal from episcopi Ebor.; Robti. de Veer, Ducis Hiberniæ; which a feast has been made, should be able to Mich. de la Pole, Comitis Suffolk, Cancellarii walk on in a climate where severe wounds are Angliæ; Robti. Tresylian, Capitalis Justiciarii; soon followed by mortification of the injured et Nich. Brembre, militis." The object of the part; and the wonder is so great, that it re

The King. From an original drawing of

J. Jenkins. S. Gans.

A second letter on the same subject, and signed "A Friend," has reached us; but the foregoing supersedes the necessity for publishing more than its concluding passage: The major should know, that the biography of men dead before our own times, requires something more, and is not to be properly handled by Rough Sketches. Rapid Journeys must be changed to reading nights and quiet studies, if we wish to become acquainted with the contemporaries of our hero-a knowledge not wholly superfluous, at least it used not to be considered so. the school-inaster is abroad, and intellect is marching

But

fast, perchance, into ignorance." With regard to our own share of blame for overlooking the anachronism in our notice of the volume, we can only throw ourselves on the mercy of our readers. It certainly did not strike us at the moment, when, relying on the author, we neglected to compare dates; and thus, in the haste constantly shewed less of critical acuteness than, we trust, is our attendant upon a periodical of very frequent appearance, wont.-Ed. L. G.

The Rev. Richard Warner, F.A.S.
S. C. Smith del.; L. Haghe lithog.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

CHRISTMAS CAROL.
"Ivy, holly, and mistletoe,

Give me a penny before I go."
"Christmas comes but once a year.”
THE rose, it is the love of June,
The violet that of spring;
Out on the faithless and fading flowers
That take the south wind's wing!
Such craven blooms I hold in scorn-

BIOGRAPHY.
THOMAS DAVISON, ESQ.

formers throw themselves, are incredible; and we fear (or rather we hope) that nothing short of ocular demonstration can convince WE do not remember ever having seen the WITH feelings of sincere sorrow we have to our readers of the possibility of a gentleman's lithographic chalk handled in a more free and announce the death, on Tuesday last, at his dancing a hornpipe upon his head better than masterly manner. There is great character house in Bedford Row, of this eminent and most people can do on their feet,-of others in the head; and the drapery reminds us of much-esteemed typographer. Mr. Davison was Lawrence. so well known to a wide and most respectable pyramids, utterly contrary to all pre-conceived hopping along on nameless parts, — of living circle in London, that it needs no eulogy from notions of humanity,—and of motion, postures, Sir Walter Scott.-A fine bust of the author our pen to excite a general sympathy for his &c. &c., not readily to be reconciled with the of Waverley, engraved by Thompson from loss: his memory will long be cherished by the known capabilities of man. Yet all these things, Chantrey, is among the fine-arts novelties of the numerous friends whom his honourable career and more, are the attractions of every scene; day. It is an ornament to the New Monthly; made for him, among whom he lived in un- and whether they produce most wonder or merand if, as is stated, the commencement of a blemished mercantile reputation and the warm-riment, we are at a loss to determine. A Sabot series of portraits of a similar kind, we must est social regard, and by whom his grave will be dance, by the four, Harlequin and Antico being say it bespeaks a good measure of new-year truly lamented. He was born at Durham, and disguised as females, is capitally done; but the activity in our contemporary. brought up as a printer, in which business he whole of the performances is of the genuine passed forty years in the metropolis, and by his character which belongs to such holyday entertalents and abilities raised it, as a useful art, tainments. Among the metamorphoses, a barrel to high distinction. His works, by their cor- of oysters turned into a punch-bowl and glasses, rectness and beauty, by improvements which is one of the neatest on a small scale; while the he made in inks, and other merits, acquired great change of a provision-stall into the stocks, and celebrity; and few, indeed, of his competitors vice versa, is one of the cleverest. The Court could approach the characters of what issued of Chancery into the cage; the division of Anfrom his press. Among the evidences of this, tico into two parts in the doctor's shop, and we may mention the various editions of Byron, his resuscitation whole; the clown at table, Rogers' Italy, the Keepsake, the Landscape trying to drink a glass of wine and read the Annual, and many other elegant productions. son was powerfully recommended by his social afford ample proofs of the talent with which To the enjoyments of private life Mr. Davi- paper, in which he is whimsically foiled by magic movements, and many other tricks, qualities. To his fellows he was kind and Harlequin's wand is employed on this occagenerous: no man in his station ever performed sion. more liberal actions; and not only brotherprinters, but many booksellers and authors, have been indebted to his prompt liberality for AT this theatre an innovation has been veneffectual assistance, at times when a friend was tured upon, for the purpose of introducing in most needed. This is a just tribute to his worth dialogue the comic Hibernian abilities of Power, as a man. In company, the musical sweetness and thereby strengthening the piece by his of a voice rarely equalled for compass and ex- brogue. This attempt is an error in design, pression, imparted a charm to his companion- and a failure in execution. Power is out of ship, and made him every where welcome. his element, and appears with no advantage to from gout, his death was sudden; no danger with less to the pantomime. Our reprobation Though for years subject to periodical illness himself, and, as Harlequin Pat might say, being anticipated six hours before it took place. is, however, confined to the introduction. After He has left a widow and family of five sons and Pat has succeeded in milling the Giant on his three daughters; and if he has not enriched own causeway, according to the versification of them by the accumulation of very great wealth, the irreverent, old, (and revolutionary) couplet, he has, we doubt not, from his large concerns, realised a comfortable independency, and, for the rest, bequeathed them a good name and the respect of all who knew him.

The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
Its berries are red as a maiden's lip,

Its leaves are of changeless green;
And any thing changeless now, I wis,
Is somewhat rare to be seen.
The holly, which fall and frost has borne,
The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
Its edges are set in keen array,

They are fairy weapons bared;
And in an unlucky world like ours
'Tis as well to be prepared.
Like the crest of a warrior worn,
The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
It was so with England's olden race,—
But, alas! in this our day
We think so much of the present time,
That we cast the past away.

Let us do as they did ere we were born,-
The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
The holly, it is no green-house plant,
But grows in the common air;

In the peasant's lattice, the castle hall,
Its green leaves alike are there.
If its lesson in mind be borne,

The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
L. E. L.

IMPROMPTU,

On reading the above charming Carol.
THE Christmas Carol thou sing'st so well,
No better I'd wish to know;
But why neglect, fair L. E. L.,
For the holly the mistletoe?

The one is a prickly, angry leaf,
The other an antidote to grief.
Though its berries red, like a maiden's
May seem to invite to bliss;
They are false as the fruit of the Dead

shore

DRAMA.

ADELPHI.

COVENT GARDEN.

scarcely enlivening our souls, yea, after the fifth unendurable sepulchral act of the Fair Penitent, which realises the foreigner's old joke of every thing being theatrical in England, where even funerals are performed. (Vide undertakers' signs passim.)

"God made the great man to walk in the fields, But God made the little to trip up his heels," the pantomime commences. Some very beautiful scenery is displayed. The perspective of the castle, the Boyne water, and the ship, are among the most effective. But there is little of invention, a scarcity of fun, and nothing to In our dramatic criticisms of this week, we laugh at, in this expensive gewgaw, which is a shall reverse the usual order of theatrical farther departure from the true spirit of pantonotices, and, instead of the line of seniority-mime (so long declining); and though upheld 1. Drury Lane, 2. Covent Garden, 3. Minor to a certain degree by the skill and experience Theatres we are tempted to adopt the line of Ellar, Barnes, and Paulo, a rather tiresome of desert, and place that house at the head, means of finishing an evening's amusement, small though it be, which has given us the best pantomime. Therefore stand forward, Adelphi, with your Grimalkin the Great, or Harlequin the King of the Cats; and a very Tybalt in his way. Beginning with the overlip,ture, a right pantomimic prelude, by Rodwell; the thing is full of bustle, drollery, excellent Sea changes, good scenery, and wonderful feats, to the final drop of the curtain. The Colum- To decide upon the claims of the rival pantobine (Miss Stallard) is a plump and pretty girl, mimes at the great houses to superiority, would not wanting in activity; and though we have be a task of no small difficulty. It would be seen greater grace, we have seldom seen greater alike unfair and inconsistent to inflict condemspirit. She has more of the English than the nation upon the one when preference was not Italian or French in her; and is consequently deserved by the other. The glory of pantoa favourite with the public. But the weight mimes has departed from them, and the dynasty of this light piece is laid upon stronger shoul- of dioramas and panoramas has usurped the ders, and Harlequin, Pantaloon, Clown, and throne of Grimaldi. The mimicry of natural Antico, are admirably performed by Gibson, grandeur is offered as a substitute for the King, Sanders, and Brown. The grotesque mimicry of human absurdity. The change is figures into which these extraordinary per- lamentably for the worse. In its attempts to

For the holly tempts not the kiss.
That joy to the holier plant we owe—
And so I prefer the mistletoe.
The warrior spike is a hateful sign
In the midst of holyday glee;
Then let the harmless symbol be mine,
That sprouts from the good oak tree.
Let fairy and warrior arms bow low
To the arms twined round 'neath the mistle-
Ed. L. G.

toe.

DRURY LANE.