thod be made public for the general benefit. NEW ZEALAND. Several natives of the South Sea islands have lately visited England, having been brought by different merchant-vessels, in which they engaged themselves as common sailors. Among these is Duaterra, nephew to Tippibee, a chief of New Zealand, and son-in-law of another chief named Wanakee. He is a very intelligent young man, only twenty-two years of age, possessing a most amiable temper, considerable natural abilities, and an ardent thirst of knowledge. His only object, as he said, for leaving his native country was to see King George. For this purpose be entered on board the Santa Anna, belonging to Port Jackson, which touched at New Zealand, on her way to some of the South Sea islands, on a sealing voyage, in the course of which he was exposed to many dangers, hardships, and toils. As a reward for these, Duaterra expected on his arrival in the Thames to see the King, but was unfortunately disappointed. The captain kept him nearly the whole time be was in England on board the ship at work, till she was discharged; and on the 5th of August last, sent him on board the Ann, which sailed almost immediately for Portsmouth. Duaterra was much concerned at being compelled to return, without accomplishing the object of his voyage, for which, he observed, his countrymen would find great fault with him. It is certainly a circumstance much to be regretted, that this young man, who by birth and marriage is related to eleven out of the thirteen chiefs of New Zealand, should have lost the only reward which he expected for two years hard toil as a common sailor, without wages, or other remuneration than clothing and provision. Duaterra, during his residence in this country, related certain particulars respecting the traditions and manners of those remote islanders, which open a field for curious speculation. In regard to the creation of man, he reports, that the New Zealanders have been taught from time immemorial, by their priests and fathers, to believe that three gods made the first man. The general term for bone is eve; and they universally believe that the first woman was made of an eve, or boue, taken from the side of the first man. The fable of the Man in the Moon is likewise an ancient tradition among these people. There was, (say they) a long time ago, in New Zealand, a man named Rona, who was going for some water one very dark night, for neither moon nor stars were then to be seen. He accidentally hurt his foot. While in this situation, and so lame as to be unable to return home, the moon came suddenly upon him. Rona laid hold of a tree to save himself, but in vain; for the moon carried both him and the tree away, and they are still to be seen there to this day. The belief of the following tradition, by which the faculty of speech at some former period is assigned to the serpent, may perhaps prove favor able to the introduction among them of the Mosaic account of the fall of man. The sharks wanted to leave the sea, and to five on shore; the serpent would not allow them, and said, that if they attempted to come on shore, they would be eaten by men; the sharks answered, they should be as safe there as the serpent: the latter replied, that he had a hole in the ground where he concealed himself from men; that they would not eat him, for if he only shewed his head, they were afraid and ran away; whereas, the shark had no place on the land in which he could be safe. He therefore compelled him to return to the sea, telling him, at the same time, that men would catch him there with their hooks, if he did not take care.-The chiefs mauster all their men, at particular seasons of the year, the great muster being made after the potatoe harvest. The ground from which the potatoes have been lately dug, is cleared of the stems and weeds, and then levelled. Here they all assem ble, men, women, and children. The men are drawn up in ranks, five, six, or seven deep, according to the direction of the chief. One of the principal officers, or rangateedas, muster them, not by calling over their names, but by passing in front of their ranks, and telling their numbers, when he places a rangateeda at the head The women and of every hundred men. children, like those of the Israelites of old, are never mustered. After this cen Sus, their holidays begin, when they spend several days and nights in feasting, dancing, and performing their religious ceremonies. The chiefs never join in the amusements, but only look on, and give directions.-The common mode of salutation between two persons is, to bring their noses into contact with each other; and Duaterra declared, that when he left New Zealand, so many came to see him previous to embarkation, his nose was sore with rubbing against the noses of his friends, REVY REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. The author, in his prefatory remarks, informs us that the present work owes its birth to the necessity he has constantly felt, in a long course of practice, of a similar assistance to the master: that taking the advantage of preceding authors, he has not only adopted their improvements, but superadded others of his own; and their great utility in his private circle of instruction, now induces him to make them public. This is Mr. Williams's apology for intruding his work upon the musical world. The apology is common with theoretical authors, but the manner in which Mr. Williams has executed his intention of assisting the teacher, and benefiting the pupil, is by no means so. The clear and regular order in which he has laid down his elementary rules, the fullness and perspicuity displayed in the explanatory observations, and the judicious examples and progressive exercises, give a superior rank to the work, and justify us in saying that it merits the particular attention both of masters and of scholars, and does the greatest credit to Mr. Williams's qualifications as a professional teacher. "Les Plaisirs de l'Esperancer;" a Divertimento for the Piano-fore. Composed and dedicated to Miss Ingram, by J. Gildon, 25. This pleasing exercise for the pianoforte consists of three movements. They are at once excellent in themselves, and judiciously disposed. The concluding rondo, in six quavers, presto à la ballet, is particularly attractive in its subject, conceived with taste, and conducted with judgment. • Ob! come, Ob ! come, my Fair One;" a favourite Soug, with an Accompaniment for the Pianofurte. Composed by William Slapp. Is. To deny this little song a moderate portion of merit would be unjust-to allow it any thing more would be exceed. ing its deserts. The melody is connected and easy, but common-place, and the accompaniment wholly consists of an obvious arpeggio, not always of the best formation, and certainly very dull in its effect. Second" Pelit Passe-Temps, á la Militaire, for the Piano-forte. Per L. Von Escb. 23. 6d. This piece consists of four movements; the first is a march, the second a maes toso in common time, the third a mode. rato in common time, and the fourth an allegretto in common time: but though the inovements are all conceived in the same measure, they are so happily di versified in their style, that none of their respective merits are lost on the ear; the uniform division of the ideas, nor, neither satiety nor monotony results from indeed, is that uniformity any way sensi bly felt. "The Rose that weeps with Morning Dew;" sung by Mr. Bartleman, set to Music by George Nicks. 1s. 6d. Mr. Nicks has taken the words of the present song from Mrs. Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest. The simplicity and easy flow of the melody please us much. The poetry is natural and unaffected, and the music is analogous and expressive. "Paddy Carey's Fortune, or Irish Promotion:" a favourite comic Song, sung by Mr. Webb, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, written by Mr. Cherry, composed by J. Whitaker. 1.6, Mr. Whitaker has thrown much of the vis comica into the music of this song, and as much of the genuine cast of Irish melody as can, perhaps, in reason be expected from an English composer. In this style of vocal composition, its merits are certainly prominent. Blythe were the Hours;" a favourite Song, sung by Mrs. Ashe, at the Bath Concerts, compered by Mr. Rauzzini, the words by William" Bennet, esq. 1s. 6d. This ballad commences with a false accent in the melody: the general cast of which is, however, by no means unworthy of the taste and imagination of the late ingenious composer; nor will the production, though a trifle, pass unnoticed by the lovers of simple ballad music. Dr. Haydn's celebrated Air and Chorus ** A new created World," from The Creation ; adapted for two performers on the Piano-forte, with an Accompaniment for a Flute or Violin and Violoncello, by J. Mazzingbi, esq. 45. Mr. Mazzingh's disposition of the parts of this chorus in the arrangement he has here made of it, will make every admirer of piano-forte duets glad that he has undertaken the task. The ge neral neral effect has been happily consulted, and every bar exhibits the hand of a master. "Fate gave the Word," a Ballad, composed and dedicated to Mrs. Harrison, by T. Haigb. 2s. 6d, The melody of this ballad, the poetry of which is from Burns, though not of the first excellence,contains some pleasing and appropriate passages; and will, we doubt not, gratify the taste of many hearers. Mr. Haigh, however, will allow us to notice the false accent with which the song opens. The word fate should not have been given to a leading note, but to the first crotchet of a bar. The author's sense is not "Fate gave the word," but "Fate gave the word." Le Retour de Cambridge; Romance and Rondo for the Piano-forte, composed and dedicated to Miss Day, by J. Gilden." Mr. Gildon, in this little production, has displayed much of that talent for piano-forte composition which has already frequently demanded our commendation. Both the movements are good in their kind, and the style of the romance is particularly calculated to introduce the rondo with advantage. "All bail to the enlivening Morn;" a favourite Song, composed by T. Thompson, Organist of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ss. In this song we cannot find any prominent traits of original fancy, or striking evidences of a cultivated judg ment: mediocrity is the word that best applies to the composition, whether looking to the air or the combination. "Adieu to the Cottage;" a Ballad, composed for the Voice and Piano-forte, or Harp; also arranged for the Harp, Lute, or Lyre, by Joba Parry, Editor of the Welsh Melodies. 15. 6d. "Adieu to the Cottage" is a very pleasing little song. The melody is as simple as appropriate, and conveys the sentiment of the poetry with truth and force. REPORT OF DISEASES, Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of November to the 20th of December, 1810. Tseveral instances of the proper inHE Reporter has recently met with termittent fever. During a period of nearly nine years of attendance as Physician upon one of the most extensive medical charities in the metropolis, the writer of this article does not recollect a single instance of this modification of disease in which he could not trace its origin to some of the marshy counties of the Island; so invariably do the effluvia from a particular sort of soil operate as a cause of a particular species of fever. The more recent instances of ague which he has met with, form no exceptions to this general observation. The Reporter has found arsenic, in the form of Fowler's Solution, to be more uniformly and expeditiously successful in this complaint, than the much and justly celebrated cinchona. The reputation of the Peruvian bark has been in a certain degree impaired by a continuance of its use. It is remarkable, that a medicine, at its first introduction into practice, has often been attended with more signal success than at any subsequent period of its em ployment; its efficacy, as well as its fame, seems as if it wore away af ter a length of time: when it has be come an old remedy, it ceases to be so powerful a one. Of the Peruvian bark, however, we may still, without trespassing upon truth, speak in very high terms, although not as an infallible specific. Protracted experience seldom fails to throw a dash of diffidence into the composition of our opinions." Decided and dreadful as the indications of fever generally are in its advanc ed and established form, its symptoms are at other times so faintly marked, as to be scarcely distinguishable by a superficial observer, from the condition of ordinary health. The whole of life is, indeed, with some, a state of fever. The Reporter has lately had an oppor When Sir John Tabor went to Versailles to try the effects of the bark upon Louis the Fourteenth's only son, the Dauphin, who had been long ill of an intermittent fever; the physicians who were about the prince, did royal patient till they had put to him some not choose to permit him to prescribe to their medical questions: amongst others, they asked him to define what an intermittent fever He replied, "Gentlemen, it is a disease which I can cure, and which you canRut." tunity was. tunity of seeing a case of unsightly and unwieldy corpulence, which appeared gradually to have accumulated in consequence of gross feeding, connected with life of sluggish inactivity: from an ignoble indulgence in habits of repletion and repose, this patient appears in dan ger of ultimately sinking under the weight Desidia, latamque trahens inglorius alvum, Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. The Use of all New Prints, Communications of Articles of Intelligence, &c. are requested under COVER to the Care of the Publisher. The British Gallery of Engravings, with some HIS Number of Mr. Forster's ele. "stretched out his arms to clasp The scaly monsters in his iron grasp i Fast in each hand their venomed jaws he prest Of the curst serpents, which even goda Their circling spires, in many a dreadful fold, 24tb Idyllium of Theocritus, Fawkes's Cool settled indignation is seated on the brow of the beautiful boy; and the whole is an additional proof (if such could now be wanting) of the superior talents of Reynolds for truth and sublimity of expression. Neither should the engraver (the younger Mr. Heath,) be passed without his share of well-deserved praise. The touch, manner, and freedom of outline, so characteristic of the pamter's style, is admirably given, particularly the lights, shades, and reflexes, of the flesh. The accessories are forcibly engraved, and have a depth and colour equal to a mezzotinto, with all the higher beauties of stroke engraving; and is certainly a first-rate print. The Landscape, by Middiman and Pye, is des licately handled, and very Claudish in effect. We should like to see these artists employed on a picture of Wilson's or Turner's, whose subjects are so much more full and interesting. The Death of Hippolitus, is a grand composition, one of the greatest of the master's, and is a real treasure to its noble possessor, (the Duke of Bedford.) It shows the power and art of Rubens, equal to any thing, after his magnificent Conversion of St. Paul, and perhaps his Descent from the Cross, that we have of this master. Mr. Smith has executed his task with fidelity and care, and hereby has added a new wreath of honour to his name. whole of the Number is equal to any of the former, and is one of those usefel and splendid works which must deserve success. The INTELLIGENCE, INTELLIGENCE. The governors of the British Instituti on have elected his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales president of their society, in the room of the late Earl of Dartmouth; and the Marquis of Stafford, deputy-president. On Monday, the 10th of December, being the anniversary of the institution of the Royal Academy, a general assembly of the Academicians was held at Somerset-place, when the following gen tlemen were elected officers for the year ensuing : President.-BENJAMIN WEST, esq. Visitors.-W. OWEN, H. THOMSON, J. NOLLEKENS, J. NORTHCOTE, and S. WOODFORDE, esqrs. Succeeded by rotation to the council: -A. W. Callcott; J. M. W. Turner; J. Soane; and C. Rossi, esqrs. And silver medals were given to the following students:-Mr. C. W. Ross, for the best drawing of an Academy figure; Mr. J. Linnell, for the best model of an Academy figure; Mr. Louis Vulliamy, for the best architectural Drawing. The academical body has sustained the loss of two members, J. F. Rigaud, and John Ricards, esqrs. The former was a skilful painter, and is best known by his picture of Samson breaking his Bonds, in the council-room of the Academy; and the latter, by his abilities as a scene and landscape painter: he was at the head of that department in Covent Garden Theatre for some years. in the disposition of the lights. The first Head Skull {Cranium Spine Trunk Ribs The second lecture was devoted to an the students to follow the principle of of the upper and lower extremities. On Monday the 17th ult. Mr. CARLISLE, F.R.S. &c. professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy, concluded a most valuable course of lectures on the application of the science of anatomy to the pur- the skeleton, and was chiefly a recapitu The fourth lecture was also devoted to pose of the fine arts: they were in every relation of the former, demonstrated upon spect original in matter and manner; and the living subject. superior to those of either of his predecessors. The audience was the most respectable and numerous that ever professor drew within those walls. lament that our present limits will not We allow us to give each of the interesting discourses at a length proportioned to its interest. They were similar in substance to those delivered last year by the learned professor, immediately after his election but considerably matured, and delivered with a greater flow and freedom; the de monstrations were more perspicuous and connected, the effect of which could now be perceived from the improvements that have been made in the theatre, and Carlisle described the origin, inserIn the two concluding lectures, Mr. tion, and use, of the superficial mus cles; and, after pointing out the cir their appearance, demonstrated them in cumstances which disguise and soften the last lecture on the living subject, in ling and pushing, &e. on a machine the various and opposite actions of pulconstructed for the purpose. He concluded, with a general recapitulation of the course, to which he added some excellent observations for directing the anatomical studies of the student. The * Vide Monthly Magazine, vol. 28, page model 611. |