1895.) REVIEW-Blore's Monumental Remains. officer at length arrested the dying man in his hed, and was about to carry him off, in his blankets, to a sponging-house, when Dr. Bain interfered, and, by threatening the officer with the responsibility he must incur, if, as was but too probable, his prisoner should expire on the way, averted this outrage. "After a succession of shivering fits, he fell into a state of exhaustion, in which he continued, with but few more signs of suffering, till his death. A day or two before that event, the Bishop of London read prayers by his bed-side and on Sunday, the 7th of July, in the 65th year of his age, he died. "On the following Saturday the funeral took place, his remains having been previously removed from Saville-row to the house of his friend, Mr. Peter Moore, in Great George-street, Westminster. From thence, at one o'clock, the procession moved on foot to the Abbey, where, in the only spot in Poet's-corner that remained unoccupied, the body was interred; and the following simple inscription marks its restingplace: "Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Peter Moore'." Thus gloomily terminated the event. ful life of this splendid genius. Had his youthful principles been fixed by judicious and steady culture, and his habits regulated by the unremitting demands of a profession, there would have been less room for wayward impulse to act in-less material on which it could successfully operate-the life of this lamented son of genius might have escaped the most trying of its vicissitudes-his moral taste its progressive degeneracy-his decent pride Its mortifications and his political fame the incompleteness of its lustre. As it is, and at the worst, we must admire-we must forgive one who, while Literature exists in England, can never be forgotten. 72. Blore's Monumental Remains, IT is with feelings of the highest satisfaction that we again turn our attention to this superiorly beautiful publication. Already do the engravings comprise a period of two centuries, exhibiting those marked distinctions in style so instructive to the Antiquary and useful to the Architect, as the following chronolo 351 gical enumeration of the monuments and effigies will prove. 1290 Queen Eleanor, plates. 1370 Earl of Warwick. 1439 Earl of Warwick, 2 plates. In the former remarks on this work, we gave it as our firm belief that Mr. Blore, the excellent draughtsman of the whole, who himself engraves a great number of the Plates, was hastening with rapid strides to equal his associate H. Le Keux, and our sen, timents are fully borne out in the effigy of Rich. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick in Part III. and the monument of Aylmer de Valence in Part IV. We therefore strenuously urge him to in crease his confidence in his own abilities, and imitate those bold shadows of Le Keux, which in the monuments of Queen Eleanor and John Gower, and the effigy of Edward III. make us doubt the evidence of our senses, almost forcing us to declare that it is the sculptured marble, and not the impress of copper that we behold. The succeeding numbers of this valuable work will, we doubt not, be soon as anxiously sought for on the Continent as in this country; our neighbours, since the wanton mutilation of similar remains in France, having become passionately enamoured of the costume and architecture du moyen age. In the summer months just past we had the fullest evidence to what extent their present admiration of monumental effigies carry them, for we never visited Westminster Abbey during that period without finding the enthusiastic French artists in every part of that interesting building copying with skill and avidity its principal sepulchral monuments. We need only cite the description of the monument of Aylmer de Valence, to shew the attention paid to improvement in the letter-press. Notwith standing 352 REVIEW.-Moreau's East India Company's Records. standing Gough was only able to speak of the armorial bearings on the North side of this tomb, the South having been but lately exposed by the alteration in the choir, he has in more than one instance given a wrong assignation; nor is the description in Neale's Westminster Abbey, although differing from Gough, wholly free from inaccuracy. In the work before us this important information is rectified, and its correctness fully established by a short genealogical table. Mr. Blore expresses himself indebted for this to the antiquarian research of Mr. Willement, author of the "Regal Heraldry," a work of far more information than its title would induce one to suppose. It is, however, with other works of this pupil of the late Royal Academician Devis, that we are best acquainted; his unrivalled talent in painting on glass, which combines chronological accuracy with the true taste of pictorial effect; his windows at Tildesley, Maidenhead, Epsom, and Leaming ton, particularly the first and last (their style quite different) have always struck us as honourable to the arts, and creditable to the judgment of the age. Such was the delight we experienced when viewing these choice imitations of other days, contrasted with the glaring white windows of modern times, that we could dilate with pleasing satisfaction on their details, but that our business is with the Monumental Remains. The Biographical memoirs of the "moral Gower," the friend from kindred poetic feeling, and similar political sentiments of Chaucer, is written with spirited and much critical discernment. The various opinions on contested parts fairly stated and commented on with strict impartiality, and due justice done to Mr. Gough for his unwearied research, which presented to us for the first time that curious picture of manners, the will of this celebrated poet. Our limits will not allow us to lay before our readers any extracts; but we promise them that they have but to see and be convinced. It uedith not you more to tellen [Oct. 73. East India Company's Records, founded on Official Documents, shewing a view of the past and present State of the British Possessions in India, as to the Revenue, Expenditure, Debts, Assets, Trade, and Navigation, to which is added, a variety of Historical, Political, Financial, Commercial, and Critical details from the period of the first Establishment (1600) of the Honourable East India Company, to the present Time (July 1825). The whole carefully Compiled and Arranged from various Authorities. By Ce'sar Moreau, Member of the Royal Institution, Royal Asiatic Society, &c. &c. Oblong folio, pp. 47. Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen. WE scarcely ever recollect to have had under review a more curious production than that now before us. It is a miscellaneous compilation; consisting of a Chronological Table of Events, connected with the possessions of the British Nation in the East Indies; and a series of figured statements, chiefly extracted or framed from documents which have been already before the public in the proceedings of the House of Commons lithographed. We, nevertheless, feel persuaded that no Gentleman who attends to Indian affairs, and collects books in that departinent of Literature, would choose to be without this work, at least as a Literary curiosity. Its value as an authority or book of reference, must of cou. e depend chiefly on the accuracy of the facts and statements it contains; the thorough investigation of which falls not altogether within our line of practice. Upon a very cursory examination, we have noticed in the Chronological part a few not unimportant omissions, such as the purchase of the site of Madras, and some other of the earlier territorial acquisitions of the Company on the Peninsu la: also the omission, under the years 1801 and 1802, of all mention of those arrangements which were then formed between the Company and the Nabob of Oude: particularly as the principle of those arrangements was at the time very much questioned, although the East India Company obtained a considerable augmentation of territory and revenue by them. As a specimen of lithographic penmanship M. Moreau's work is entitled to great praise, and the production of it must have been attended with considerable labour, especially the last con condensed figured statement. The account of the constitution of the Company in England, with which the book concludes, we recollect to have seen some years since in a work compiled and printed, but not published, by Robt. Wissett, esq. a servant of the Company. It is no doubt owing to M. Moreau having relied exclusively on the authority of Mr. Wissett's book, that he describes the Committee of Buying and Warehouses as separate Committees; which they certainly were when that gentleman wrote, but they are now, and have been for several years, united in one. M. Moreau concludes his work by remarking, we believe with truth, that "The East India Company have essentially contributed to the present greatness of the country; that they gave a very early impulse to its manufactures and trade; that in fact they opened a new commerce, not with the East only, but by means of their LITERATURE, Ready for Publication. Part VI. of the Progresses of King James. Sermons and Plans of Sermons on many of the most importaut Texts of Holy Scripture never before published. By the late JOSEPH BENSON, The Rev. ROBERT HALL'S Sermon on the Death of Dr. Ryland. Memoirs of the late Rev. S. Morell, of Norwich. By the Rev. J. 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October, 1825. 353 returns from thence, with foreign Europe; that to all these public benefits is to be added the direct wealth with which the Company have been the means of enriching the Nation. The amount of these contributions, consisting of profits enjoyed by manufactur ers, ship-builders, and tradesmen, ship owners, officers, servants, and labourers, miforeign parts, &c.; also in dividends to proners, re-exporters of eastern productions to prietors, payments to Government, and the influx of private fortunes acquired in India, especially in the last 70 years, may be mo derately estimated at one hundred and fifty millions of pounds sterling." LL.D. contains a graduated series of ExLatin Versification Simplified, by J. CAREY, ercises, and is well calculated for soon ren, dering the young Latinist a proficient in the rules of prosody. There are two volumes; one consists of examples, with the words placed in prosaic order; and the other forms the key, with the verses in regular scansion. SCIENCE, &c. Chronology; together with a New Appendix and Iudex Verborum. Revised, abridged, and adapted to general Use by JOHN HENRY TonD. Literary Souvenir. Containing the production of the most eminent Poets of the day. By ALARIC A. WATTS. The Practical Miner's Guide. By J. BUDGE. The Camisard; or, The Protestants of Languedoc. A Tale. The Secret Correspondence of Madame de Maintenon and the Princess des Ursins; from the original MSS. in the possession of the Duke de Choiseul. A Translation of the Plays of Clara Gazul, a Spanish Comedian. A Comic Poem in the Scottish Dialect, called John o' Aruha'. By the late Mr. GEORGE BEATTIE, with characteristic coloured engravings. 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Time's Telescope, for 1826; or a Complete Guide to the Almanack, and the Astronomer's, Botanist's and Naturalist's Guide for the year, interspersed with a variety of Original Pieces by eminent living poets. The Peerless Peer. By Mrs. CAREY, Author of "Lasting Impressions." Facts and Fancies, or Mental Diversions. By the Author of "Solace of an Invalid." Characters Contrasted; or, Character modified by Education. By the Author of the "Mirven Family." A new edition of the Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, by Edward Philips (the nephew of Milton), was printed at Geneva in 1824 by Sir Egerton Brydges. In 1800 Sir E. B. had given a reprint of that portion of this work, which included the poets to the death of Queen Elizabeth: but he never completed the second volume. In the present edition not only all the remaining text of Philips is given, but Philips's words of the former part are repeated. The editor has not again reprinted his own copious additions to his former first volume, and the reason he gives for this is the non-access (in a foreign country) to such English books of reference as would have been necessary to continue it on the same plan. The editor has written a new Preface, [Oct, CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, &c. Some time ago, Dr. Barry, an English physician resident at Paris, read before the Academy of Sciences in that city, a "Memoir on the Motion of the Blood in the Veins;" and Messrs. Cuvier and Demeril, whose names are so well known to the lovers of Natural History, were appointed by the Academy to investigate the subjects, and draw up a Report on the same. These gentlemen lately presented their Report to the Academy, which is highly creditable to our Countryman. The Report commences by alluding to the various opinions which have hitherto been entertained by physiologists with respect to the cause of the motion of the blood in the veins. Thus some have attributed this motion to the action of the heart, others to the pressure of the muscles, and others, again, to an absorbing power in the veins themselves. Amidst this diversity of opinion, however, with respect to the cause of this motion, authors have, in general, agreed in recognising a certain connexion between the motion itself and the act of inspiration; but this connexion was merely looked upon as a coincidence, or, at most, the act of inspiration was esteemed nothing more than an accessory cause of In the Memoir the motion alluded to. presented to the Academy by Dr. Barry, a very different view is taken of these facts, which, in the opinion of this gentleman, are much more intimately connected as cause and effect than has hitherto been supposed. "And, in truth," the Report proceeds, "he has shown, by means of experiments entirely new, very ingenious and perfectly conclusive, first, that the blood in the veins is never moved towards the heart but during the act of inspiration; and, secondly, that all the facts known with respect to this motion in man, and the animals which resemble him in structure, may be explained by considering it as the effect of atmospheric pressure." STEAM 1825.] STEAM VESSELS. Literature and Antiquities. A steam-boat of sheet-iron, intended for a passage-boat, from Colombia, on the Susquehanna, to Northumberland, is constructing at New York. The boat has sixty feet keel, nine feet beam, and is three feet high -she is composed entirely of sheet iron, riveted with iron rivets; and the ribs are strips of sheet iron; which by their peculiar form are said to possess thrice the strength of the same weight of iron in the square or flat form. The whole weight of iron in the boat, with the wood work, decks, cabin, and steam engine, will be but five tons. The whole cost of the boat and engine will be three thousand dollars. Under the superintendence of the inventor, a steam vessel on an entirely new principle is now building at Bridport Harbour, for which a patent has recently been obtained. This vessel is not to be propelled by paddle wheels, but by the retrograde motion of short flaps, which work horizontally in the sides of the vessel, and are carried by the engine at the rate of 24 feet in a second, on a parallel line with the water. When the flap, or rather fin, has finished its motion, it rises out of the water, returns, dips again into the water, and repeats its operation by rushing through a space of 18 feet along the side of the vessel. The engine itself is equally novel, the boiler being dispensed with, and the steam generated by forcing water into a double barrel, by the heat of which it is instantly converted into steam, having all the advantages of the perpetual boiler without its incumbrance. LA PEROUSE. 355 Captain Manby, recently arrived at Paris, has brought a report, supported by presumptive evidence, that the spot where the intrepid La Perouse perished 40 years ago, with his brave crew, is now ascertained. An English whaler discovered a long and low island, surrounded by innumerable breakers, ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. HIEROGLYPHIC HERALDRY. The whole science of Heraldry may be pronounced to be a portion of the Egyptian hieroglyphical language, and the only portion of which we have the key. It represents the names of persons, their birth, their family, their titles, their alliances, their great actions, by certain signs, imitative or conventional. Under this point of view, it is capable of much greater improvement than it has yet undergone; and a shield might be practically made to represent (what the Mnemonic art fails effectually to do) a synopsis of biography, chronology, and history. In proof of the above assertion, one fact is ascertained. The Egyptians certainly distinguished their cities and their tribes by armorial banners, of which representations are extant. Thus the standard of Leontopolis was a lion-of Lycopolis, a wolf-of Cynopolis, a dog, &c. &c.; and it may be presumed that individuals were designated in the same manner. Indeed, the nature of the hieroglyphical language seems to require that the names of people should be pictorially represented, as is indeed the case with many instances of modern heraldry; and if a very common oval figure among the hieroglyphics be, as in all probability it was, a shield, the surmise is warranted by the circumstance of figures of animals therein inscribed, among which is often seen the Scarab, said to have been worn on the shields of the Egyptian soldiers. Perhaps the fable of the Chimæra originated in this manner. The lion, goat, and dragon, appear to have been three rebels (subdued by Bellerophon), who were distinguished as the Lyonses are now a-days, and the Dracos and Capruses were formerly, by corresponding crests. The Indians, even now, call each other by similar primitive distinctions, as bear, wolf, dog; and of such aboriginal distinctions, the names of Wolf, Lion, Fox, Buck, Hog, among ourselves, are evidently relicks. The words cyon, chien, and canis, have been derived from the priests of Anu |