It is astonishing how many hours this occupatian engrosses in high life. Lady Lansquinette assured me, that she played three rubbers of whist regularly every

Through,' brothers, Through,' shall be evening, unless she sat down to some

guineas at the same time, having lost, vellous) Have you heard that Lady I now moved towards the door, and five points upon the rub, when I was en- Barbara Bankton has' (interrupted by got into a crowd of beaux and of belles, treated to sit down to cassino in company the Baronet) Cut, Madam;" Yes, and into a confusion of tongues. The with Mrs. Marvellous, Sir Herbert Max-Sir Herbert, she has cut, and left her broken sentences which came to my ear ton, and Lady Longtick. I the more lovely children.' "Your Ladyship's from different quarters were ridiculous readily, however, complied with the re- game." To the mercy of the world. enough. Lady Racket was discoursing quest of my right honourable hostess, How shocking for her three daughters!' about a new novel; Sir Wetherby Justle since at cassino the attention is not so "A double game." (Mrs. Marvellous) was holding forth on horse-racing; a entirely taken up; less importance is at- 'She certainly had the most indulgent new Member was affecting the ministetached to the game, and a little light and husband in the world.' "The base rial tone, and laying down the law to a confused conversation may be allowed; wretch, I have no patience with her." deaf Dowager who had the best of it, for whilst at whist you see grave faces sit-A hard rub'-" Yet I could always she was paying attention to an antiting in judgment over your play, and see through her conduct." Had you quated Exquisite the whole time. Mrs. observe as much interest and anxiety, as said through her drapery,' replied Sir Marvellous told me that Lady Tmuch silence and attention, as a speech Herbert, I should have been satisfied was ruined, and she owed her butler of Demosthenes would have claimed that you were right, for she was a walk-only one thousand guineas. "Lady from his auditors. ing transparency. But here comes her cousin the General.' "The game is up." Released from the cassino table, I walked round the room, and cast an eye on the different tables. I stopped for a moment behind my friend Lord Levity's chair, and contemplated the countenances at an unlimited loo. "I pass," said Lady Lavish, in a tone of broken-heart

"Come," said Lady Racket to me, " 'you must make one at cassino; (then lowering her voice) you will have the charms of Lady Longtick to contemplate, and Mrs. Marvellous will amuse you with some very astonishing stories in the intervals of dealing, etcetera." Your Ladyship's commands are so many laws to me,' said I, as I resign-edness, which told me that she had lost. edly took my place at the table. "The Hermit of London," exclaimed Mrs. Marvellous, in half a whisper to Sir Herbert. They both elevated their brows, as much as to say, here's a fellow who will observe us closely. I made my best bow, and took my seat.

eye

I drew cards, and fell to the lot of Mrs. Marvellous. "You must not scold me if I play ill," said she. Not for the lady in my life.' "I wish that I could say as much of Sir Herbert," said she, "indeed it was nothing short of cruel, your crossness to Lady Maxton yesterday; you actually brought tears into her eyes."Nonsense,' exclaimed the Baronet, you know I wanted not to play at all; but the Nabob could not make up 'his party without us, and I hate above all things to play with my wife; married couples never ought to play together.' "Unless," interrupted Lady Longtick, "they understand one another as well

world,' answered I, I never scolded a

"her

Longtick has made a good thing of it, to-
night," whispered Lady R-'s maiden
aunt to a young Guardsman;
dress-maker will now have a chance of
being paid," continued she.

"A complete hoax! the majority was certain," broke upon my ear from another quarter. A love match, upon my honour," observed an Insipid, lolling on the arm of a couch.-" A maiden speech," observed the Member to a gouty Bishop. - Not an honour in the world,' echoed from a neighbouring card-table; whilst Count Mainville was talking politics, and Sir Harry was saying the most gallant things imaginable to the Lincoln

shire Heiress.

Every feature was changed, the warm
smile which gives such attractions to her
countenance had disappeared; dejection
filled her eyes, and despair sat on every
feature. Mrs. Beverly was also a great
loser: not less than eighty guincas did
she pay for her night's pastime. She
Lady Lovemore passed by at this mo-
put on a sort of placid look, a well-bred
smile; but nature, true to its feelings, her temper as well as she could. She
indifference, a forced and unnaturalment convulsed with rage, but bridling
betrayed the secret of her mind, and had not only lost at cards, but perceived
gave the outlines of revenge and of dis- a happy rival in the affections of the Co-
appointment to her countenance. "You lonel, to whom he was paying the warm-
are out of luck," observed I. A trifle est assiduities, and her rival had smiled
or so, answered she, with an assump- contempt. Lady Racket even seemed to
tion of tranquillity which imposed upon enjoy the defeat of Lady Lovemore:

nobody.

The other ladies

(the eldest only eighteen) were all anxiety. The natural lustre of their complexions was marred by a flush of intemperate feeling and over-desire to win. Their eyes were attentively riveted to the cards, and from time to time they communed with each other by glances of satisfaction, doubt, as our friends in Portland Place." And or discontent. Whilst these three Graces then,' replied the Baronet, it is not very pleasant to play against them' (ation to their bad or good fortune, Colowere half metamorphosed by their attengeneral smile.) nel Crab sneered as he was pocketing his gains; and Lady Mary Moody expressed the intoxication of success. This she strove to stifle, but it flushed on her cheek, spoke on her half opened lip, and sparkled in her eyes. How little do these fair creatures, thought I, know how their looks betray them! So much are they a prey to the passion of gaming, that not even these magnificent Venetian mirrors can bring a useful reflection to cure them of this vice.

"It is your deal, Mrs. Marvellous." Two and three are five.' "The heart is yours, Lady Longtick, and little cass falls to me." Have you heard of the Royal marriages?'"Three tricks, by Jupiter!" -The naval Duke.' " Your knave, my Lady."—“ I am quite out of luck; how many Queens?" (Sir Herbert) One, and that's quite enough.' "Bravo, Mrs. Marvellous," said I, you are always fortunate; 'tis my trick." (Mrs. Mar

I fear that your Ladyship is not well," said Lady R. to her in an assumed tone of pity and of kindness. A sick head-ach which distracts me,' answered Lady L. and flounced away unattended by a beau, which circumstance was observed with different remarks and comments from half a dozen different quarters at once. How little charity one female has for another, thought I and at cards this quality exists not.

I now perceived Sir Herbert, who had been looking over his wife's play, and must have been giving her some unwelcome hints. Did I play ill in trumping?" sweetly and softly uttered she in a silvery tone. 'Not at all,' replied he, in a sharp tone : 'if you wished to lose, you could not play better.' She gently raised up her shoulders and, heaving a sigh, said, "My dear, I am sorry for it." It's always the same,' exclaimed he, and broke unkindly away from her. What a pity that a few hearts

and clubs, ill painted upon the surface of a card, should occasion such contending passions, should sow such dissensions, and embitter the hours of so many ra

tional beings!--that a card played out of place or without judgment, should mar the domestic felicity of an otherwise happy couple! and that Lady Maxton should persevere in playing without any abatement of ill fortune abroad, or of dry

ness and blame at home.

I now perceived a number of the beau monde going to their carriages, and, upon striking my repeater, found that it was four o'clock. Thus were four hours consumed, when I retired to rest; but the countenances at the loo-table were before my eyes in my dream, and I longed to be able to give a little advice to the fair creatures in question. THE HERMIT IN LONDON.

THE DRAMA.

DRURY LANE MEETING.

When the hurly burly's done!—Shakespare.

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The first are unquestionably the fountain | to the half-price reasoning, on the old, of all authority, but they can seldom act proverb, that half a loaf was better than en potence, from their numbers; and there- no bread. They had heard many appafore must, for the carrying on of their rently well-founded complaints of want of affairs, delegate their power to an Executive, courtesy from the acting Trustee, in addiHence originated the second and third tion to breaches of engagements and violabodies, which are also recognized by Par- tions of good faith," whereby the embarliament; and hence, on their decline and rassments of the Theatre were increased. fall, issued the fourth body, which came They proposed to raise 170007. on loan, and into the field against its predecessors at to mortgage the virtuous brandy and cherrythe meeting on Tuesday. bounce receipts in the lobby for repayment. On this day there was a good deal of They recommended the surrender of the The tactic displayed. old Managers sole management of the theatre to George kidney, and to get their Report of the state the same. They proposed to curtail the managed to have a president of their own Colman-the former Report having done of the Theatres read first. They then pro- present gratuitous free list-a most inposed that it should be agreed to; but the dispensable reform, for during last season other party had also their Report ready, the admissions were lavished on the useless and being the strongest in "voices," they parasites of the managers and their favourcarried the very sensible measure of having ites, while the powerful Press, Subscribers, that counter Report submitted to the con- and able friends of the House, were affronted sideration of the assembly, before it was and disgusted by capricious and stupid incalled on to decide on the other. This ap-sults. They with great simplicity expressed pears to have altered the case considerably, an opinion of" the utter disqualification for though hearing two sides instead of one, of four out of the five Sub-Committeemen, certainly entangles the puzzle of forming and their surprise that they had not rea judgment, the soundest logicians have, signed, just to oblige them, their Censurers!, upon the whole, reckoned it the preferable They notice, in fine, many other foolish acts. mode. of those they wish to get rid of, such as their allowing their dependants to exercise the power of principals in expending the money of the property; their general ill management' in dramatic matters, &c. &c.; and their Report concludes with the withdrawal of Pascoe Grenfell from the troublesome office of Trustee to this labouring Esta

These reports have most explicitly and A meeting of parties interested in Drury amply confirmed every opinion which, in Lane Theatre took place on Tuesday, when animadverting upon a question of so much Sir Thomas Turton having been seated in importance to the literature and manners of the chair, the divisions and dissensions of the age as the conduct of one of the two this unlucky concern were brought to a National Theatres, we have felt it to be public hearing. We take it for granted our duty to offer to the public. There is that the majority of our readers are suffi- not one of our observations on the subject, ciently world-wise to surmise that the which has not acquired double force from several advocates who stood prominently the disclosures now made. The Report forward for the general good on either side, first read, stated in substance, that the Subare, as usual, influenced by particular mo- Committee had been desirous of seconding tives, and laudably look to their own emo- the views of the Select Committee (set over lument, or to the gratification of their own them!); that they had made every effort to vanity or love of authority in this business. settle the pecuniary incumbrances (which The two classes who are most deeply con- they had brought) upon the Theatre; and had cerned have very little to do with the accordingly got three fourths of its Credimatter, and the creditors who want pay-tors to accept a bankrupt composition of 50 ment of their debts, even at ten shillings in the pound, and the public, who want able management and dramatic excellence, seem to be set aside to witness the contest of the gladiators for that mastery which may enable the victors to gull the former and disappoint the latter.

The proceedings were long, but their import admits of a very short summary. There are at present four bodies having or claiming the right to manage the affairs of Drury Lane Theatre.

1st. The great body of proprietors. 2d. The General Committee of 21, appointed by the Act of Parliament, and consisting of ten nominated by that Act, and eleven elected by the Nominees.

3d. The Sub-Committee of Management, formed of five members of the above 21, and, with their acts, liable to the revision of a general assembly of Proprietors.

4th. A Select Committee, appointed at a meeting of Proprietors on the 8th of June last, when it was found that the affairs of the Theatre were in a state of ruin under the existing system.

per cent. ; and that (pricked by conscience)
they were ready to lend the concern 4500/.
towards getting it out of the slough of de-
spond into which they had plunged it. It
was very natural that the Proprietors should
ask to have another view of their pitiable
situation, before they consented to say
amen to this. Mr. Robins hereupon over-
came Sir Thomas Turton, and the second
Report, that of the Select Committee, was
produced. It was by no means a courteous
one, for instead of grateful acknowledg-
tion, it denounced them all, with the excep-
ments to the Subs for their ready co-opera-
tion of Lord Yarmouth, and particularly
pounced upon the acting trustee, Mr. Pe-
ter Moore, as an incompetent and perni-
cious manager. By their own vigorous
and salutary measures," however, (for they
modestly enough assume their due share of
praise) they (the Select) shut up the
Theatre, left open by that gentleman
when he went to Coventry, and thus
saved 20001. to the property. They also
had negotiated with the Creditors, and
had brought a proportion of them to listen

blishment.

Some discussion ensued upon these re ports, and some personal altercation, which it is not worth while to detail, and the meeting terminated with agreeing to the second Report, and appointing Mr. Robins as the Moore declared he would defend his post successor of Mr. Grenfell. Mr. Peter to the last, agreeable to Act of Parliament; and stated, what we have frequently alluded to, that the imperium in imperio of Mr. Kean had tended greatly to the losses sustained by the Theatre. Mr. Kinnaird denied this; but it is nevertheless true, and the honorable gentleman could only be blinded by his friendship for the absent

Actor.

it is impossible to anticipate. It is evident What may be the result of these squabbles that the minority on this occasion have, notwithstanding, sufficient power to defeat the success of any attempts of the majority: and it is equally clear, that though resolu their demand, there is no law in Denmark tions may be carried to get the non-conforming creditors to accept the moiety of which can compel them to abate one farthing. With regard to the management of Mr. Colman, there can be but one opinion: if any thing can restore the theatre to prosperity, his talents and experience may accomplish it.

THEATRES.

THE theatrical representations of this week have not demanded our particular attention, either for their novely or interest,

Remarkable days in it are,

and we are glad to allow an occasional | triumphs, reduced Egypt under the power
blank in one of our departments, were it of the Roman people, and put an end to
merely for the sake of change. A cor- all civil wars. The Saxons called August
respondent, signing Alatus, has required arn-monat, or barn-monat; on account of
our notice of Naldi's misconception of the the harvest.
part of Marsilio, in Cimarosa's beautiful
opera of Il Matrimonio secreto. The cha-
racter is that of a peevish old man, totally
deaf, who endeavours to persuade the world
to the contrary; yet Naldi, it seems, with
the idea of increasing the comic effect,
uses an ear-trumpet. As the whole dia-
logue and music are founded on his deny-,
ing his defect, nothing can be more outré
than this glaring absurdity. We take it
for granted that this notice will correct

the error.

At the English Opera House the opera of The Americans has been most appropriately and successfully revived.

FOREIGN DRAMA.

THEATRE DE LA GAITE.

Venus is an evening star, and decreaseth to the 23d, when she passeth the ecliptic in her descending node, in the 10th degree of the 7th sign.

On the 27th Mercury is an evening star, at his greatest elongation.

1st, Lammas Day. This is a feast of The apparent diameter of the Sun on the Romish Church, and the term is pro- the 1st is 31 minutes 35 seconds; on the bably derived from an old Saxon term sig-20th, 31 minutes 51 seconds; and enters nifying Loaf-mass, as it was customary for the 6th sign on the 23d, at 42 minutes past the Saxons to offer an oblation of loaves seven in the evening.—Naut. Alm. made of new wheat on this day, as the first fruits of their new corn.-6th. Transfiguration.-7th. On this day the Jews commemorate the death of Aaron the high priest.

10th. St. Lawrence. He was by birth a Spaniard, and Treasurer of the Church of At the Haymarket they are becoming Rome, being deacon to Pope Sextus about too regular for their strength. There are the year 259. Soon after his bishop was excellent performers in the Company, but killed by the soldiers of Valerian the emthey are not in numbers to perform either peror, with whom St. Lawrence would willegitimate tragedy or comedy, and we ad-lingly have died, he refused to deliver up vise limitation to Mr. Jameson's half-cast the church treasure, which they imagined plays, and Mr. Colman's excellent dra- he had in his custody, for which he sufmatic jeux d'esprit. fered martyrdom by being burned to death on a gridiron over a slow fire.-12th. The Prince Regent born in the year 1762. 15th. Assumption. This is a Greek festival in honour of the supposed miraculous ascension of the Virgin Mary into heaven. On this day the Jews observe what is called the Black-fast, or anniversary of the destrucL'Incendie du Village, ou les Represailles, tion of the first and second temples.is a melo-drama which displays war in all 24th. St. Bartholemew. The word Barits horrors. Murder and conflagration are tholomew means the son of Tolmai, the the elements of which it is composed. An name of a family among the Jews menofficer assassinated on the enemy's terri- tioned by Josephus. The day is commetory forms a pretence for giving up a vil-morated for the cruel massacre of the Prolage of Canada to military execution. This testants in France, begun on it in the reign piece, which contains several interesting of Charles IX. when upwards of seventy scenes, was very favourably received. The thousand persons perished.-24th, Is a day music, which in a melo-drama is merely observed by the Jews for humiliation, on an accessary, has the advantage of being account of the western light of the Temple expressive, and well adapted to the sub- having been miraculously extinguisued on ject it is the composition of M. Nell. it during the reign of Ahaz.- 28th. St. Au gustine. St. Augustine was a judicious divine and voluminous writer: he died in 430.-29th. John the Baptist beheaded.

VARIETIES.

To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. MR. EDITOR,

The appearances which will take place in the heavens in the course of August Having been favoured with a reading of 1818 are, on the 1st, the latitude of the Mr. Campbell's forthcoming inquiry on the Moon will be nearly five degrees north Battle-fields of Fingal, in Ulster, I would in the first degree of the fifth sign, and beg all the Anti-Ossianists, from Doctor it decreases to the 8th, when it passes Johnson down to Mr. Laing, and lower, the ecliptic in its descending node, about who may read your widely circulated Ga-three in the afternoon, in the second zette, to muster all the arguments that their ingenuity may devise to rout this powerful antagonist-for I am willing to believe that it will require more than fancy, however embellished, to wrest from Mr. C. the credit of having discovered and traced Ossian and his gallant Father through the lovely plains of Inesfail. I am, &c.

PHILO-OSSIAN.

Curzon Street, May Fair. AUGUST.-Sextilis was the antient Roman name of this mouth, being the eighth from March. The Emperor Augustus changed this name, and gave it his own, because in this month Cæsar Augustus took possession of his first consulship, celebrated three

THE LORD'S PRAYER

In the English 1000 years ago, "Uren fader thic arth in heofnas, sic gehalgud thin noma: to cymeth thin ric: sic thin willa sue is in heofnas and in eortho. Uren hlaf ofer wirtlic sel us to daeg; and forgef us seylda urna, sue we forgefen seyldum urum; and no inlead usith in custnung. Ah gefrig urich from ifle. Amen."-Camden's Remains.

Two hundred years later the language had undergone such alterations that the Prayer run thus:

Thu ure fader the earl on heofenum.

Si thin nama gehalgod. Cum thin ric. Si thin willa on eorthen swa, swa on heofenum. Syle us to dæg urn dægthanlican hlaf. And forgif us ure gyltas swa, swa we forgifath tham the with us agyltath. And ne led the us on costnung. Ac alys us from yfle. Si it swa."-Lisle's Saxon Monuments.

There is very little difference between this version and that in the Saxon gospels said to have been translated by King Alfred; but about two centuries and a half after, in the time of Henry II., Pope Adrian, an Englishman, rendered the prayer thus, and sent it over-a curious example both of the progress of the language, and of the versi fication in that age. It is in black letter, but we employ the usual type for the sake of conveniency.

Ure fadyr in heaven rich,

Thy name be hallyed ever lich,
Thou bring us thy michell blisse:
Als hit in heaven y-doe,
That in yearth beene it also.
That holy bread that lasteth ay,
Thou send it ous this ilke day,
Forgive ous all that we have don,
As we forgivet uch other mon:
Ne let ous fall into no founding,

Ac shield ous fro the fowle thing. Amen. degree of the eighth sign. Her southern LANGUAGES.-Scaliger affirms that there are latitude now increases to the 14th, when at eleven linguæ matrices, or mother tongues, midnight it is five degrees one minute in used in Europe, whereof four are of more the fifth degree of the eleventh sign, and it general, and seven of limited extent. The decreases on the 21st, when she passes the four former are, the Greek, Latin, Tentonic ecliptic in her ascending node about nine in or German, and the Slavonic. The seren the morning, in the eighth degree of the latter are, the Albanese or old Epirotic, the second sign. Her southern latitude in- European Tartar or Scythian, the Huncreases to the 28th, when at midnight it is garian, the Finnic, the Cantabrian, the five degrees four minutes in the fourth Irish, and the old Gaulish or British. degree of the fifth sign, and then decreases to the end of the month, being on the last at midnight three degrees fifty-three minutes, in the twelfth degree of the sixth sign.

Saturn is on the meridian at a quarter past one of the 20th.

Mr. Bullock, it is stated, has recently discovered in Sanda, one of the Orkney Islands, the remains of buildings of vast antiquity, at the depth of 20 feet under the sands. They are enclosed by stone walls near half a mile in extent, and roofed with very large stones. There are also several

circular tumuli, each containing three graves, none of which are more than four feet six inches in length

wallis.

Extract of a letter from Stornaway, dated June 22:-"I had a very fine sight here yesterday afternoon. No fewer than 209

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Rome, June 21, 1818.
The Literati of all countries will hear

Near Eye in Suffolk, above fifty Roman with pleasure, that a very ancient and comurns have been dug up, within these few weeks, in a field belonging to Marquis Corn-plete original Codex of the Pentateuch (or five books of Moses) has at length been discovered. It is in the possession of an English gentleman of the name of Sams. It is written on skins, and is in good preservation. The age of this manuscript is said to be about 1500 years, and it has been in the possession of a Jewish family upwards of 800 years; but the last branch of this family being reduced to poverty in the time of the revolution, was obliged to pawn this treasure of antiquity for a certain sum, and not being able to redeem it, it came into the possession of the above-mentioned Englishman.-(We have before noticed this MS.)

whales, called the bottle-nose, came into this harbour, when a desperate battle ensued between them and the inhabitants of the place, armed with axes, swords, and knives, so that I suppose very few of those extraordinary visitors escaped. I measured some of them this morning, above 20 feet long by 15 feet in circumference."-An immense shoal of Finners, very large whales, have also appeared in these northern seas. Are these phenomena connected with the disruption of the Greenland ices?

The Russian brig Rurich, under the command of Lieut. Kotzebue, whose arrival at Portsmouth we announced about three weeks ago, had been out on a voyage of discovery two years and eleven months. The crew had continued remarkably healthy, but the vessel was obliged to put into Portsmouth for supplies of provisions. During his voyage, which at first was directed to the North, Lieutenant Kotzebue reached a very high latitude, but we are not yet able to state it with accuracy. He fell in with a most singular iceberg, of great magnitude, which not only had a portion of its surface covered with earth and mould, and bearing trees and vegetable productions, but a portion of its water-line covered with a shore formed by the deposit of earthy matter, washed down from the higher parts of the earth-covered iceberg, On this shore a landing was made, and considerable quantities of remains of the mammoth were found in such a state of putrefaction as to produce a most insupportable stench. The Rurich brought away a number of the tusks and other parts of these immeuse animals, which had probably been preserved in a frozen state for many ages, till the mass of ice which enclosed them, put in motion by some unknown cause, reached a more temperate latitude.

Times.

a little

evening, when it became overcast: thunder, and lightning in the horizon. Saturday, 25-Thermometer from 59 to 81.

Barometer from 30,03, stationary. Wind SbW. 1.-Generally clear.

Rain fallen, 075 of an inch.

Sunday, 26-Thermometer from 52 to 83.
Barometer from 30, 03 to 30, 02.
Wind SbE and SbW. 1.-Generally clear till
about seven in the evening, when it became over-
cast, and a few drops of rain fell.
Monday, 27-Thermometer from 61 to 78.

Barometer from 30, 00 to 30, 12. Wind SbE.-W. and NW. 1.-Generally cloudy; thunder about noon, before which the wind became NW. and was comparatively very cold the rest of the day.

Tuesday, 28-Thermometer from 50 to 72.

Barometer from 30, 33 to 30, 37. Wind NW. .-Clear.

Wednesday,

Wind SW. cloudy.

29-Thermometer from 46 to 75.

Barometer from 30, 40 to 30, 37.
-Sun at times, but generally

it is believed, was never equalled in Great Bri* The great heat of Friday the 24th, which, tain but on the 16th July 1793, when the Ther mometer was then ninety-three, is worthy an extract from an account of the weather at Madras:

"July 14th, 1789, at 4 P. M. the Thermometer

exposed to the shade was 101.

"N. B. It is a very uncommon circumstance to see the Thermometer at Madras rising so high

We are requested to state, that the third or concluing volume, in 4to, of the "MeTO CORRESPONDENTS. moirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin The Confessions of Frederick of PrusFranklin," is now ready for delivery, and sia.-This remarkable production, of which the purchasers of the former volumes are an extract in the Literary Gazette recently advised to order their respective booksel-excited so much curiosity, we are now endlers to complete their sets as soon as bled to lay perfectly and entirely before our possible. readers. We have only been induced to postpresent more than one subject running in a pone its insertion this week, from having at consecutive series, weekly, through our publication.

from a prospectus, countenance the publi-
The Royal Irish Academy, we observe
cation, by the Rev. Mr. Roe, of a new work
on the principles of rhythm in speech and
in music, and in the mechanism of English
verse. If well executed, such a production
will fill up a chasm in literature, and meet

a desideratum which has not been less felt The decease of a British Admiral was since our modern versification has been recently recorded in the newspapers, of subjected to new, or rather released from whose character and services the only dis. old rules. The plan seems to be to ally tinguishing record was thus worded:This music more closely to language than has gallant Admiral was the first person, we hitherto been done the attempt is curious, believe, who gave the popular toast, A and the work may be rendered both philong pull, a strong pull, and a pull alto-losophical and entertaining. gether"!!! Quel gloire!

J. G., Castleton, will please accept our thanks for his communication, which shall, as we cordially agree with him, be inserted next week. We shall be happy to receive his Country Sketches, and take this opportunity of saying, that as our valued Hermit cannot last for ever, though his Essays are too numerous to lay our readers under any apprehension of his being found dead in his cell before the severest colds of Winter, we shall with gratitude be indebted to able Contributors for aid in spirited sketches of life and manners.

ERRATA. In the biographical memoir of M. G. Lewis, in our last, by an inadvertency, Southey's pathetic poem of Mary the Maid of the Inn, was attributed to Mr. Lewis.

The number of new Chapters in the recovered work of L. da Vinci is one hundred and eleven, and not three, as stated in our last. The mis take arose from the roman numerals in the MS,

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