For in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good." The members of our hebdomadary conclave are in s ber ten, and although we contribute thus weekly to pages in alternate succession, what we have hitherto ten went not to press unadvisedly; neither will our fu strictures be submitted to your editorial ordeal, wit being previously scrutinized by us collectively in fell vocation assembled. On the little we have already d we reflect with pleasure; conscious that reference to little will sufficiently refute the insidious charge of having "puffed up into a Magnus Apollo" any "se rate actor"" wholly passed over, or dumme i faint praise a valuable performer”—“ railed at poor actor, whose cast of characters neither rep nor admitted of higher powers than he possessed," that we are addicted to dwelling rather upon d

that lies;" though we freely acknowledge ourselves |
unable to perceive beauties where they do not exist, and
ta refrain, from decrying “defects," when all is defective.
Simply in matters of opinion we shall always " agree to
dar" with you; or, at most, as was the custom of the
famous Duc de la Rochefoucault, when opposed on any
print which appeared to him too clear for discussion, con-
tent ourselves with telling you, "This, Gentlemen, is your
opinion; the contrary is ours."

EDIT. REG.

July 14, Meade, John Bull; with Dancing by Madame Searle, and the Spectre Bridegroom.

15, The Stranger, Blue Devils, and The Review; benefit of Miss Kelly.

16, Welamig, Town and Country; with Dancing, and Hest Thieves.

17, Tauralau, Provoked Husband, Dancing, and Therese, 18, Fran, The Rivals; with Hob in the Well, and For

tune's Frolie; benefit of Mr. Knight.

Scientific Records.

[Comprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve-
ments in Science or Art; including, occasionally, sin-
gular Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phi-
Tosophical, Botanical, Meteorological and Mineralogical
Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural History,
Vegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c.; to be continued in
a serics through the volume.]

MANUFACTURE OF DIAMONDS.
(From the National Register.)

Since we had last the pleasure of appearing before the public, "Mr. Webb, late of the Theatre Royal Coventgarden,” with “ Mr. Meadows, from the Theatre Roval Covent-garden," have been added to the galaxy of metropolitan luminaries, which has latterly irradiated with such flgence our theatrical firmament. We were right glad to see them, though we are to do so but "FOR A FORTNIGHT ONLY." They are the ostensible successors of Messrs. Johnston and Emery (two bright suns, now for ever set!) but no more like those they have succeeded, than we to Hercules." This circumstance alone should not operate to their disparagement; for so powerfully are the recollections of their predecessors' great ness impressed upon the minds of all who knew them, that we much question whether even superior excellence, admitting such possible, would efface the remembrance of Hibernia's truest representative, and the never-to-beforgotten John Emery. Mr. Meadows and Mr. Webb are each very good, but by no means great actors; the Latter of whom excels chiefly in Irish songs. We promise hin our half-crown at his benefit, on Friday, if it be bat to hear his "Savourneen Deelish," which we well r member listening to with much delight on a similar onasion last year. This plaintive monody, of itself very affecting, is rendered truly so by Mr. Webb's masterly secution of it; and is as much the pathetic, of music, as Mis M. Tree's "Tyrant, I come!" the heroically grand. Miss Kelly's benefit was a good one; her Mrs. Haller, the best performance she has attempted while here. There were, throughout, occasional instances of feeling and pathas which could not be surpassed, and yet, strange the audience noticed them not. Of these we could averal, especially in the scene with the Countess, re the sad development made by the sorrowing, guilty nider of her own shame and crime, seemed to presage wreck of her repentant soul; and when, deaf to the Ping assurances of the Countess, and apparently overned with the magnitude of her infany, how heartthing was the exclamation, "Tis impossible!" ConThe globules of melted plumage are absolute nontop had robbed her of the only medicine vouchsafed conductors of electricity; as strictly so as the diamond." te miserable-hope.” He adds with characteristic modesty-" It will now proYou have been told, gentle reader, that we are "cho-bably not be deemed extravagant, if we conclude that our Peruse the following precious morceau, and then Are of what are our feelings by your own, which cannot other than disgust and indignation. Mr. Katgur, of the Theatre-royal, Drury-lane, in

66

Mertfully announcing to his Friends and the Pub-
that his Beneût is appointed for Friday next, the 18th
at, feels assured that the Patrons of the Drama will
pt we his selection of Sheridan's brilliant Comedy of
THE RIVALS.

has ever been acknowledged by the most refined The to say, in an eminent degree, all those sparkalect, unities of dialogue, and markings of genus,

ith so preen. Inently distinguish its inimitable author. TITO E ORTIZ & out of the Metropolis, that this darling pro

of the Stage (which demands for its perfect repretation an extraordinary union of talent) can, as in the nt instance, boast of representatives so ample in their

lations."

Animal Electricity.-Mr. Glover has published the following method of receiving the electrical shock from a cat. Place the left hand upon the throat, with the middle finger and the thumb slightly pressing the bones of the animal's shoulder, then gently passing the right hand along the back, sensible electrical shocks will be felt in the left hand.

Cultivation of Onions.-Mr. Macdonald, gardener to the Duke of Buccleugh, has communicated the following process for cultivating this vegetable. As soon as the produce of the seed-beds attain the proper size, choose a moist clay, take up the plants, and after immersing them in a puddle, composed of one part soot and three parts earth, transplant them (by drilling) about four inches asunder, in rows, and afterwards carefully hoe them when required. This process answers with any kind of onion, makes it heavier, firmer, and more pungent.

Globes and Maps in Relief-As mere drawings give a very inadequate idea of the configuration of a country, the Germans have lately fallen upon an excellent mode of supplying this desideratum. They have constructed globes and maps in relief, of papier maché, in which they attempt to exhibit the natural appearance of the earth. We hope that some of our own countrymen will soon construct a map of our own interesting island on the same principle. What an excellent preparation such a map would be to a tour in Wales, Cumberland, or the Highlands of Scotland.

That on the

In adverting to the contents of the last number of the American Journal of Science, we have not before noticed a very interesting article by Professor Silliman, on the deflagrator of our fellow-citizen, Professor Hare. This instrument, as splendid in its operations as it is likely to be useful as an instrument of analysis, has, in the hands of the former gentleman, led to one of the most brilliant results of modern chemistry-He has not only fused the Anthracite and Plumbago, but it is not too much to say that he has actually converted them into diamonds. The following extracts from his paper will prove the correctness of our assertion: "On the end of the prepared charcoal, and occupying frequently an area of a quarter of an inch or more m diameter, were found numerous globules of perfectly melted matter entirely spherical in their form, having a high vitreous lustre and a great degree of beauty. Some York Minster Organ.-This noble instrument, which of them, and generally they were those most remote from the focus, were of a jet black like the most perfect obsi-has for the last three years been undergoing a thorough dian; others were brown, yellow, and topaz coloured; repair, and receiving numerous additions from the hands others were greyish white, like pearl stones, with the of Mr. Ward, is now, by that superior artist, brought to a translucence and lustre of porcelain; and others still lim-state of perfection which enables it to bear competition pid like flint glass, or in some cases like hyalite or precious with any one in Europe. This stupendous instrument is composed of the great organ, which is visible above the opal, but without the iridescence of the latter." "I detached some of the globules, and firmly bedding stone screen dividing the choir from the nave, and conthem in a handle of wood, tried their hardness and firm-taining thirteen stops-the choir organ, which is east of ness; they bore strong pressure without breaking, and the great organ, and contains eight stops, and the nave organ, which is concealed by the stone screen, contains easily scratched not only flint glass but window glass, and even the hard green variety which forms the aqua fortis ten stops, having a Venetian swell throughout; there are also two pedal organs behind the screen, together occupy bottles. The globules which had acquired this extraor dinary hardness, were formed from plumbago which was ing the whole length, fifteen yards. so soft that it was perfectly free from resistance when right side of the great organ contains seven stops, and the one on the left side six stops-the scale of the crushed between the thumb and finger.' pedals is from FFF to C C.-The scale of these organs is from FFF to F in alt. being CO notes. The total num. ber of stops is 52, and of pipes 3254. The longest pipe. which is in the sack but stop, is 24 feet long, and 14 inches in diameter; and the largest pipe in the double diapason stop is 12 feet long, and 14 by 16 inches square. After this slight enumeration of the principal features of this organ, our readers will naturally be prepared to expect some. thing superior in its effects; and we do not hesitate to affirm, that, as the venerable edifice in which it is erected stands unrivalled for architectural grandeur, the peals of harmony which roll from this instrument through its lengthened aisles, and reverberate through its arched roof, for power of volume and richness of tone, cannot be equalled in any cathedral in Europe. We are supported in this assertion by the opinion of a gentleman highly celebrated in the musical world, who has heard and examined all the principal organs of Germany and Holland. whole was planned by Dr. Camidge, and the style in which Mr. Ward has performed his arduous task will be duly appreciated by those who have an opportunity of hearing, for themselves, the manner in which the whole are made to harmonize. From the soft breathings of its flute to the loud thunders of its sackbuts, trombones, and double diapasons, not a discordant tone is heard; and the crash with which the whole force bursts upon the ear, whilst it produces an effect powerfully impressive, yet the smoothness of the whole, rolls on with the majestic We are glad to hear flow of a deep unrefled stream. that the Committee for managing the approaching Musical Festival, in the cathedral, have determined upon using this noble instrument on that occasion, for which purpose Mr. Ward has received instructions to bring down a set of keys into the orchestra, which will be erected west of the organ.

Speaking of the globules obtained in another experi. ment he observes, that some were perfectly limpid, and could not. be distinguished by the eye from portions of diamond."

The experiments detailed remove every suspicion which might be entertained that these globules were the earthy matter contained in the plumbago which was vitrified by the intense heat. They were exposed in a jar of oxigen gas to the focus of a powerful lens, and although they neither melted, nor altered their forms, a decided precipitate was formed upon the introduction of lime water into the vessel.

melted carbonaceous substances approximate very nearly
to the condition of diamond."
We have much reason to be proud of this discovery. It is
unquestionably one of the present day. It fills a chasm in
the science of chemistry, which has hitherto been a reproach
to our powers of analysis; and, by confirming, as it does,
the reasoning of Lavoisier it is calculated to strengthen
our confidence in that inductive philosophy which has
already achieved so many triumphs. It is, morcover, an
American discovery-by an American chemist, and with
an instrument exclusively of American invention. It is,
next to the discoveries of Franklin in electricity, the most
splendid contribution we have hitherto made to science,
and will secure to the accomplished professor a high rank
in the annals of chemistry.

Mr. Ramage's new Reflecting Telescope.-Mr. Ramage.
of Aberdeen, has finished the speculum of a new reflecting
telescope, 53 feet in focal length. The diameter of the

That it should come to this!" What are the inabitants of Liverpool so incapable of appreciating the Purts of Sheridan, that they must needs be thus insult-large speculum is 20 inches. ly schooled into them by Mr. Knight? We must, swever, take leave to tell this self-constituted Mentor of le community, this arrogant little man who thus Washingly trumpets forth his own eulogium, that The als has been infinitely better performed, and in Liver* than on Friday last. Perhaps he may be acquainted ch poor creatures as W. Farren, Johnson, Browne, Mrs. Davidson; with whom the people of Liverpool ave been too long intimate, to tolerate somebody we could vation. July 21.

M.

We are happy to announce to the public a very im portant improvement in the principal moving power in our manufactories, by Mr. John Bradwood, engineer at Barrowfield Dyeworks, who, after a succession of experiments for a number of years, has succeeded in completing a revolving steam-engine on an entirely new principle. In this improvement, all the principles of Watt's engine are at once applied to a revolutionary motion; and of course the great loss of power which takes place by reciprocating motion is obviated.-Glasgow Chronicle.

The

Expedition. The St. George, Captain Emerson, sailed from hence on Wednesday evening, and the following morning met the Government steam-packet coming ut of Howth with the London and Liverpool reals. The St. Ceorge arrived at Dublin about an hour afterwards, remained in the harbour upwards of twelve hours, and arrived here on Friday morning, at Eleven o'clock, bringing the accounts from Dublin of Thursday evening, having left there twelve hours after the departure of the mail above alluded to, which did not reach Liverpool until Saturday aerning. The St. George sailed again for Dublin on Friday, this enter ing upon her third voyage within the uncommonly shere space of five days.

Egge.

The Bouquet. The lawyer is the only man he is not to be discredited: and for other thing "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have hinders, by whom he is spighted for taking his desires are more limited then his fortun

brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them."

REVIVIANA.

MONTAIGNE.

MICRO-COSMOGRAPHIE; or, a Piece of the
WORLD DISCOVERED; in ESSAY ES, and
CHARACTERS. By DR. JNO. EARLE. The
Eighth Edition. London, Printed by R. D. før
P. C. 1664.

[Continued from our last.]

up quarrels. He is a maine pillar of our
Church, though not yet Dean nor Canon, and
his life our Religions best Apologie. His
death is the last Sermon, where in the Pulpit
of his Bed, he instructs men to die by his
example.

which he thinkes preferment, though never meane, and that he is to do something to serve this: He is too tender to venture great places, and would not hurt a digni to help himself. If he doe, it was the v lence of his friends constrained him, and h hardly soever he obtain it, he was harder p swaded to seek it.

(To be continued.)

The Traveller.

THE NORTH-WEST EXPEDITION. The Quarterly Review, just published, contains

"Two summers have now passed over, and it is pr

4. A MODEST MAN is a farre finer man then he knowes of, One that shews better to all men then himself, and so much the better to 3. A GRAVE DIVINZ is one that knows all men, as lesse to himself: for no qualitie the burden of his calling, and hath studied to setts a man off like this, and commends him make his shoulders sufficient: for which he more against his will: and he can put up any hath not been hasty to launch forth of his injurie sooner then this (as he calls it) your port, the University, but expected the ballast Irony. You shall hear him confute his com-following remarks upon Captain Parry's expedition of of learning, and the wind of opportunity. menders, and giving reasons how much they covery: Divinity is not the beginning, but the end of are mistaken, and is angry almost if they do his Studies, to which he takes the ordinary staire, and makes the Arts his way. He counts it not profanenesse to be polisht with humane Reading, or to smooth his way by Aristotle to School-Divinity. He hath sounded both Religions, and anchor'd in the best, and is a Protestant out of judgment, not faction; not because his Countrey, but his reason is on this side. The Ministry is his choice, not refuge, and yet the Pulpit not his itch, but

fear.

which the Arctic Gulph affords. The second season

not believe him. Nothing threatens him so clear that they have not carried him into the Pacific, much as great expectation, which he thinks less indeed, which is merely in the chances, he may b taken the route of China and the Cape of Good H more prejudiciall, then your under-opinion, which, from his ample supply of provisions remainin because it is easier to make that false, then not quite improbable. Had he run for Kamtskatk this true. He is one that speaks from a good along the coast of America in the Pacific, we should action, as one that had pilfered, and dare not fore this time, have heard of him. We know he calcu upon three summers, and only wished that, if not h justifie it, and is more blushingly reprehended of in the beginning of 1824, a vessel with provisions in this, then others in sin. That couuts all be sent into Behring's Strait in the autumn of that publick declarings of himself, but so many He was last seen near the Upper Savage Islands, o 22d of July, 1821, steering with a fair wind and thr penances before the people, and the more an open sea, direct for Repulse Bay; and as Ca In his discourse there is substance, not you applaud him, the more you abash him, Franklin left Cape Turnagain on the 25th of Aug all rhetorick, and he utters more things then and he recovers not his face a moneth after. the same year, the latter was on his return before Ca words. His speech is not help'd with in- One that is easie to like any thing of another Parry could possibly have reached that point I event, however, of his having done so in the course o forced actions, but the matter acts it self. mans: and thinks all he knows not of him season, it is not improbable that he would enter that He shoots all his meditations at one Butt: better then that he knowes. He excuses that gulf, of which the Cape forma the eastern and no and beats upon his Text, not the Cushion, to you, which another would impute, and if extremity; the less so, from its being situated in the making his hearers, not the Pulpit groan. In you pardon him, is satisfied. One that stands longitude nearly as the Copper-mine River is laid do Arrowsmith's Chart; a point which he would undou citing of Popish errours, he cuts them with in no opinion because it is his owne, but sus- deem it expedient to visit ; and if so, he would mee Argument, not cudgels them with barren In-pects it rather, because it is his owne, and is the flag-staff and letter left by Captain Franklin, and vectives and labors more to shew the truth confuted and thankes you. He sees nothing bably, pass the winter in one of the many snug ha of his cause then the spleen. His Sermon more willingly than his errors; and it is his with ease, bring him to that point of the coast which is limited by the method, not the hour-glasse; error sometimes to be too soone perswaded.minated by the Rocky Mountains a little beyond and his Devotion goes along with him out of He is content to be Auditor, where he onely the Pulpit. He comes not up thrice a week, can speake, and content to goe away, and because he would not be idle, nor talks three thinke himselfe instructed. No man is so hours together, because he would not talk weake that he is ashamed to learn of, and is nothing but his tongue preaches at fit times, less ashamed to confesse it: and he finds and his conversation is the every dayes ex-many times even in the dust what others over ercise. In matters of ceremony he is not looke, and lose. Every mans presence is a ceremonious, but thinks he owes that rever- kind of bridle to him, to stop the roving of ence to the Church to bow his judgement to his tongue and passions: and even impudent it, and make more conscience of schisme men looke for this reverence from him, and then a Surplesse. He esteems the Churches distaste that in him, which they suffer in Hierarchy as the Churches glory, and, how-themselves, as one in whome vice is ill-faever we jar with Rome, would not have our voured, and shewes more scurvily then anoconfusion distinguish us. In Symoniacall ther. A bawdy jest shall shame him more purchases he thinkes his soule goes in the then a bastard another man, and he that got bargain, and is loth to come by promotion so it, shall censure him among the rest. And he dear. Yet his worth at the length advances is coward to nothing more then an ill tongue, him, and the price of his owne merit buies and whosoever dare lye on him hath power him a living. He is no base grater of his over him, and if you take him by his look, Tythes, and will not wrangle for the odde he is guilty. The maine ambition of his life

kenzie's River, the only spot where we can concei difficulty to occur; here Captain Parry would, pro pass the second winter; and, if so, the third s would, without dificulty, carry him through Be Strait. And when we consider the character of th mander, who would leave nothing behind him is much to examine) we are not in the least surp his taking three seasons, which, indeed, he alway lated upon, to accomplish his task; and which impossible, he may, therefore, be expected to do course of the present summer. With regard to r apprehend none beyond that to which all navigatio icy seas is liable, and which the long-frequented fishery, conducted in vessels not half so strong no

mined (and, from the indented nature of the coast

"Among the number of idle conjectures which from time to time, in the public prints (and which

dustive of no other effect than awakening the anxie friends of those employed on the expedition) one surprised that Captain Franklin met with no traces o him on the coast of Siberia; and an English journ fishing-boats of the Aleutian islands, which is just if the pilchard fishermen of the coast of Cornwall each case being about the same."

Parry, though it was impossible; a Frenchman has di

nounces the two ships to have been seen off Icy Cape

as

covered them off the North Cape of Norway, the di

DITES bed, sta expe

[From the Literary Gazette.]

A Visit to Sprin: detailing the Transactions which oc curred in that Country, in the latter part of 1822, and the Ard Four Months of 1823. With an Account of the Removal of the Cour! from Madrid to Seville; and general Notices of the Manners, &c. of the Country. By Michael J. Quin, Barrister at Law, and F.R.S. Lit. Bro. pp. 859. London, 1823. Hurst, Robinson, and

Co

Morocco, to a gentleman in this university. We are happy to find, that Mr. Belzoni has commenced his undertaking. with favourable auspices, and we most sincerely hope that he may be enabled to accomplish his plan of traversing the great breadth of Africa. If he should succeed in his Herculean task,

"Nec vero Alcides tantum telluris oblvit," he will leave the labours of all former travellers at an is first to reach Timbuctoo, and from thence continue his immeasurable distance. We understand that his design route through the heart of Africa to Sennaar. He will then pass through Nubia, and arrive once more in the land of Egypt, the scene of his memorable discoveries. The following is the extract which we have been permitted to copy:

a

"In the short letter I wrote to you from Tangier, dated the 10th of April, I informed you that I had gained permission. from his Majesty the Emperor of Morocco, to enter his country as far as Fez, and that I had great hopes of obtaining his permission to penetrate further south. I stated also, notwithstanding the great charges upon my purse, unsupported as I an, and relying entirely on my own resources, that nothing should be left undone before I quitted my attempt. I have now great pleasure in acquainting you, my dear friend, of my safe arrival at Fez, after having been detained at Tangier till letter had been forwarded from Mr Douglas, his Britannie Majesty's Consul at Tangier, to the Minister at Fez, to obtain permission from the Emperor for me to approach his capital. As soon as a favourable answer was received, we started for this place, and in ten days arrived here in safety with my better half, who, having succeeded in persuading me to take her to Tangier, has also enforced her influence to proceed to Fez; but this, though much against her will, must be her "Non plus ultra." Yesterday I had the honour to be presented to his Majesty the Emperor, and was highly gratified with his He was acquainted that I had letters of reception of me.

well manned, has proved to be little more than common | per was served, which not even native Spaniards could sea rist. Indeed, with ships as strong as wood and iron touch. Imagine us all seated round a rickety deal table, an make them; stored with provisions and fuel for nearly covered with an old, torn, stained green baize, upon which, were placed a soiled cloth, a bowl of pottage, the odour of four years; with a commander excelled by none in the which was of itself an antidote to hunger, and a round various duties of his profession, endued with intellectual deep dish of baked clay, in which were huddled tegether faculties of the highest order, and full of zeal and energy, shreds of meat and vegetables exhausted of their nutritempered with due prudence and discretion; with experiment. Two knives, three pewter forks, with one wooden enced officers and crews of picked seamen; we cannot per had we been disposed to use them. The room was little spoon, were the only utensils upon which we could reckon, suade ourselves that any reasonable ground of alarm for larger than the table. On each side were two bed-rooms, their safety need be entertained." and on the same floor were the kitchen, the landlady's bedroom, and another sleeping-room, full of strange faces of carriers, muleteers, and pedestrian travellers, all very proper or very dangerous men, for aught we knew. The hostess, an immense muscular woman, with a face as red as the fire at which she cooked our supper, and a voice as rude as the noise of a door creaking on rusty hinges, completely ruled every thing and every body. She abused us all in the lump, for not eating of the dishes she had so much trouble in preparing; and from the time we entered her auberge until we left it, her tongue never ceased to wage war, except for the hour or two that it was subdued by slumber. The only symptom of gentleness about this horrid place was one of our attendants, a little girl of about If intelligence in observing, impartiality in delineating, nine or ten years of age; she was of slender figure, a mild and a pleasant style in describing, be the requisites of an and beautiful countenance, animated by eyes of dark and entertaining volume of travels, the author of the Visit to hazel; her brown hair was negligently folded up on her the Spain has produced a work eminently entitled to that dis-head, her bodice was laced, in the old Spanish fashion, tinction. We do not know when we have journeyed with across the breast, and round her neck hung a silver cross, a more acceptable companion; one of whom we may say, a locket, and one or two little silver trinkets. Her person, as he does of some chance associates on his route to Seville, though cruelly neglected, seemed to belong to a very dif"we happened to harmonize admirably, and we might ferent sphere from that in which she was now placed. She have travelled to China without feeling any other desire was assisted by another little girl about her own age, quite than that of rendering the way as mutually agreeable as a contrast to her in appearance, with rough hair and a palid possible." (p. 29.) Indeed, Mr. Quin appears to have fierce countenance; both seemed to be timorously submishit the right medium: he is neither too general nor too sive to the hostess, and performed the few duties with introduction from Mr. Wilmot, to the Consul in Tangier, minute; he does not repeat things which all his precursors which they were troubled as if they were frightened at from whom I received indeed the greatest hospitality, and have told, bat, even in going over beaten ground, seizes what they were doing. It was observable that the only who did all in his power to promote my wishes. sme new features to mark his course; and he has so occasions on which our hostess spoke in any thing like nate circumstance of my having known the Prime Minister happily mixed his accounts of the Spanish politics (pecu-woman's accent were when she addressed the pretty little of his Majesty, whilst in Caire, on his return from Mecca to this country, is also much in my favour; and though a great liary interesting at this period) with his general remarks girl; to the other she was rude as to any body else. un the national character and customs at all times inte"The nearer we advanced towards the metropolis, the deal has been said against my project by the commercial party, reating) that we hardly know whether to prize his publi. aspect of the country became ruder, and the posadas still particularly from the Jews of this country, who monopolize cation chiefly for its valuable view of objects of immediate more incommodious and more miserable. After leaving all the traffic of the interior, I obtained his Majesty's permiscuriosity, or for its more lasting merits. Aranda, indeed, we saw a few vines for the first time, and sion to join the caravan, which will set out for Timbuctoo a few fertile hills moderately cultivated. But, though the within one month. If nothing should happen, and if progreater part of the country is evidently capable of produc-mises are kept, I shall from this place cross the mountains of ing vines, fruit-trees, and ever, in many places, corn, it is Atlas to Taflet, where we shall join other parties from various lett a mere waste-not a cottage to be seen for many miles, quarters, and from thence, with the help of God, we shall nor the least sign of industry. Extensive pastures with enter the Great Sahara to Timbuctoo. Should I succeed in my attempt, I shall add another votive-tablet to the Temple out a sheep upon them, lands warmed by a genial sun, and irrigated by numerous streams, spread themselves every where around, inviting the attention of the husbandman, but inviting it in vain.

Having prefaced our notice with these brief but effectual compliments, we shall justify them by a few extracts, to xhibit the various attractions of the volume; though, in dung, those parts which belong to the passing politics of the day will be but slightly touched upon, and thus that which forms a leading and important branch of the auther's plan be left to be gathered from the perusal of

by work.
Travelling rapidly from London to Bourdeaux, and
thence to the Pyrenees, we find the following observation
that remarkable tract of country called the Landes:
"There is nothing more remarkable in this country
than the echo which is capable of being awakened in se-
nd parts of it. The crack of the postillion's whip was
bal repeated in twenty vibrations, each lessening as they
Hounded along the interminable waste. The tick of a
-mail, which we passed, was heard distinctly for at
at three miles of the road. A peculiar stillness per-
ided the atmosphere-not a leaf on the trees trembled ;
and then a prolonged call was heard from some cot-
ge buried in a distant part of the forest, which died away
the air with a melancholy cadence. The echo is ra-
ily accounted for, by the peculiar solidity of the sandy
al, which rather reflects than absorbs the sounds that pass
wer it. But the stillness which it produces is almost su-
Braatural"

another solitary auberge, in the midst of a wild and deso-
"We arrived for the night at the Venta of La Molara,
late heath. This posada is within eight leagues of Madrid
and yet strange to say, it could only afford two beds.
There was no supper to be had unless eggs and grapes,-a
supper which more than one of our party would have every
where gladly accepted. There was only one knife to be
had, and that a rusty one; the spoons and forks were of
wood! Slept in the voiture.

"After leaving this miserable place, our route lay
through Cabanillas, San Augustin, and Alcobendas. As we
side of the road rich and well cultivated, chiefly disposed
approached the metropolis, we found the lands on each
in vineyards and corn-fields, but there was scarcely a tree
leagues on the right hand, where is situated the Pardo-a
to be seen any where, except at a distance of three or four
country palace belonging to the King. When we arrived
within about a league of Madrid, it suddenly presented it-
standing almost, like Palmyra, in the midst of a desert.
self to our view with its numerous spires and steeples,
No shady groves, no avenues, no country seats, bespoke
the approach to a great capital. Not an object of any
sort was to be met worth describing, until we entered the
barriers, which we passed at half-past one o'clock in the

From Bayonne to Madrid the accommodations of the
aveilers display some of the peculiarities of the existing
the of things; for example:
We left Burgos, after a stay of two hours: and, after
Bersing a series of hills and plains, barren and unculti-
Red, covered with heath and broom, we arrived for the
e at the petty miserable village of Cobillo.
We were now pretty well acquainted with the disad-afternoon."
Stages of travelling in a country reputed to be dis-

Every body with whom we had to do turned state of things, in some way or other, to the purposes

If the auberge were not well provided, the was, that either the factious had taken away their es, or they had none, for fear they should be taken away. arrangements with the voiturier we also found to have slide better than a gross deception on his part. We wod him liberally for our expenses on the road; but ra he set us down at the very worst auberges to his experience could direct him, in order that he jat make the most of his bargain. At Cohillo a sup

[To be continued.]

BELZONI.

Our readers may recollect, that in the description we gave some three months ago, or the lid of the granite sarcophagus, presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Mr. Belzoni, we alluded to the perilous journey which that enterprising traveller was about to undertake. We have have lately been favoured with an extract from a letter of his, dated the 5th of May, at Fez, the capital of

The fortu

of Fortune; and if, on the contrary, my project should fail, one more name will be added to the many others which have

fallen into the river of oblivion. Mrs. Belzoni will remain at

18 or 20 days' journey from hence, and as soon as that fact Fez till she hears of my departure from Taflet, which place is ascertained she will return to England.

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We shall look forward with much anxiety to the future accounts which may arrive from this indefatigable travel ler, and if success can be expected in so difficult and dangerous a project, we may fairly say that it will attend upon one who is in every respect most qualified for the attempt-Cambridge Chronicle.

• Taflet is 340 miles south of Fez.

Correspondence.

SYRUP IN TARTS

TO THE EDITOR,

H's letter in wishing to know the cause of syrup rising in SIR,-Having read in the Kaleidoscope of the 1st instant, cups, that are in general placed in tarts, and thinking it would have been answered by some person in the following week's edition more able than myself, I postponed putting my thoughts to paper; but it not having been solved as expected, I offer the following opinion upon the point, subject to correction, if erroneous.

Air, it is well known, if it be heated, becomes rarefied, and rises into the upper regions from its specific gravity; therefore, the air which is contained in the inverted cup becomes rarefied and expelled, and a vacuum is formed the syrup, in consequence of such a vacuum, rushes in and occupies the whole space of the cup, if there is suffi cient to fill it, and remains there from the atmospheric air (which may come in when the tart begins to cool) not being able to press upon the fluid on account of the resis tance made by the cup surrounding it.-Yours, &c. Oswestry, July 11, 1823, W. A. C.

DRAMATIC CRITICISM.-LITERARY KITE-FLYING.

TO THE EDITOR.

THE KALEIDOSCOPE.

near Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and although so simple in
its application, that in no way detracts from its importance
or the merits of its contriver.

SIR, Being one of those who occasionally derive The plan consists in procuring the supply of air for the amusement from your excellent literary publication, I have fire underneath the boiler (set in the usual manner) over been, for the last fortnight, more than ordinarily overjoyed the top of the boiling tallow: the boiler is encircled with by the perusal of certain dramatic criticisms, with the plates of sheet iron, to the height of eighteen inches or writer or writers of which you profess not entirely to coin-two feet from the flange, leaving a space of two or three cide. It is the style, Sir, which delights me more than the feet in front, and to within three or four inches of the matter; for I neither think that nothing can be nearer to top, to admit the draft, and for the convenience of the "histrionic perfectability" than Mr. Vandenhoff's acting, workmen, with a flat top of the same material, wherein nor do I think Miss Kelly obviously lacks professional exthe spout for the rough tallow is inserted with a slide in cellence; and, indeed, though your critic may, if he it, and shut when not required for the admission of the chooses, without interruption from me, write sonnets in tallow into the boiler, and a space at the back of the praise of Mr. Vandenhoff's whiskers, his well-curled casing is left to communicate with a brick flue descending wig, or his painted "eyebrows," I think it very uncavalier to the ash-hole, and the front of the ash-hole closed with in him, publicly to tell a fair young lady, and a stranger a loose sheet-iron door. The furnace chimney being at a too, on the eve of her benefit, that she is unfit for the considerable elevation above the descending flue, naturally stage. However, the ineffable pleasure the world must de- continues the draft in that direction upwards; and by a rive from the rhetoric of your learned critic somewhat atones damper placed at the side of the descending flue, on a for his deplorable want of courtesy and respect to the fair sex. level with the furnace-door, leaves, when open, a direct Congratulating the friends of the stage that the "ephe-draft to the fire is continued down the flue, whilst the fire communication with the fire-place from that flue; and the meral foolery which had recently usurped the throne is renewed with coals, the fire-door being open in the of Shakespeare and of reason" was fast receding, your mean time; and when the damper and furnace-door are critic thus continues-"Thanks, however, to the more closed, cause the draft to ascend through the fire from the

sober operation of faculties, in some measure overthrown by the bewitching wreck of mind that so simultaneously possessed us all, the morning of orthodoxy has again arisen." He then "hails the dawn of returning rationality." -I was much pleased with the beautiful idea of our “sober faculties" being nearly overthrown by a wreck." But who can express the overwhelming delight I experienced on reading that he accordingly had gone to witness Damon and Pythias (Tom and Jerry being defunct) "conscious that the era had arrived when idiotism and apostacy were destined to hide their diminished heads,' or ride triumphant on the maddening whirlwind of universal insanity!"-The elegance, force, and sublimity of the phraseology, appeared to me to place Addison, Johnson, Locke, and indeed all the modern as well as ancient writers, in a very sober altitude in the scale of literary

merit: they, indeed, must "hide their diminished heads,' while your critic "rides triumphant"(I shall pursue the quotation no further.) But what was all I have related to the following?" During the past week our the atrical hemisphere has been illumined by the first (we might add faint) glimmering of two metropolitan stars, whose united effulgence, however, scarcely equals the palest possible scintillation of ethereal light."-Sir, when I came to this passage," overthrown" as my "sober faculties" nearly were by "the wreck of mind”-the "morning and dawn of orthodoxy"-the "riding triumphant on the maddening whirlwind of universal insanity;"-when from these I was lifted to "stars which scarcely equalled the palest possible scintillations of ethereal light"-I took my station amongst "the gods;" I was lost in a whirlwind of celestial transport and sublimity; and I uttered an ecstatic laugh, from the innermost regions of my soul, as loud, as tremendous, and as appalling, as the pealing thunders of avenging Jove. My respects to your critic.-Yours.

BOMBASTES BLARNIOSO.

Mount Parnassus, July 10.

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-One of the objects of the Kaleidoscope being to disseminate useful scientific improvements, I beg leave, through your medium, to describe one of essential importance to the health and comfort of inhabitants contiguous to tallow-chandlers' manufactories, by its destroying or carrying off their offensive smell; and equally applicable to various processes in manufacturing business, as boiling oil, &c.

The inventor is Mr. Fothergill, an engineer at Benwell,

ash-hole.

in fuel; for the steam and gaseous particles arising from
It is found, by experience, there is one-half less expense
the boiling tallow increase the effect of the fire; and by
the strong current of air passing over and immediately in
contact with the tallow, the evaporation is materially in-
creased, and the process shortened.-Yours, &c.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

TO THE EDITOR.

H.

Sir,-In answer to your correspondent H, who is de-
sirous to know by what means the syrup is confined in a
gooseberry tart, by placing in it an inverted cup, I take the
liberty of attempting to explain the circumstance.

It is a well-known principle in hydraulics, that the at-
mospheric pressure is equal to fourteen pounds upon every
square inch of surface. Now, previous to the tart being
baked, the cup is full of cold air, which, becoming
rarefied by means of heat, gradually escapes, whilst the
to supply the deficiency. This effect continues to increase
pressure of the surrounding atmosphere causes the syrup
as the tart cools, or, in other words, as the confined air is
more condensed. Yours, &c.
Liverpool, July 3, 1823.

ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.

E.

There will be a remarkable and total eclipse of the moon to-morrow (Wednesday) the 23d instant; and as it will happen soon after the moon has passed her apogee, her motion through the earth's shadow will be slow, and consequently render the eclipse of long duration.

The Female Tongue.-There is at present residing in Brighton, a lady of great beauty and accomplishments, possessed of a quality which puts out of all distance the fame of the celebrated Mr. Doublelungs. This extraordinary and singular faculty arises from a peculiar formation of the tongue, which is separated to the root, in a longitudinal direction, and actually forms a double tongue. Not the slightest inconvenience is felt from this exuberant gift of nature. With this desirable and admirable addition to the organ of domestic comfort, this lady is enabled to afford entertainment to her friends beyond the power of any ventriloquist, or indeed of conception. highly endowed mind, she has had many suitors, none of -From the personal charms she possesses, as well as whom have retired fron paying homage, owing to the effects of the extra clapper hung in this enchanting belle. She possesses two voices: one exceedingly clear, sweet, the other so exquisitely thrilling, that it must have been and harmonious, allowing her to sing with great effect: small voice of love. With this voice she imimates exactly bestowed on her for no other purpoee than to lisp the still

the notes of many birds, piping like a bullfinch, singi as a canary: what is most remarkable, her mother s deaf and dumb.-Brighton paper.

To Correspondents.

STERNE'S PLAGIARISMS.-We have not yet been enabled to m with the coincidences of the manifold plagiarisms of celebrated author of Yorick. Our correspondent, Corp Trim's Second Cousin, may rest assured of the fact, of wh we shall probably furnish him with some evidence. now speak entirely from our recollection, which author, us to state, that the late Dr. Ferrier, of Manchester, detee Sterne of the disgraceful habit of literary pilfering, fr Burton, the author of the Anatomy of Melancholy. As! Prolix says, "it made a great noise at the time." We almost confident, that if our correspondent will tur the pages of the Manchester Philosophical Transactionswill find Sterne detected of pilfering whole sentences, we believe whole pages, if not chapters.

THE QUAKER'S BUDGET. Our correspondent Nathen has sumed his narrative, assigning as a reason for the long terval, which has elapsed since his former communicati an accident which prevented him using his pen. In eor quence of which he informs us that he has prevailed up his DORA to be his amanuensis. We are somewhat s prised that this lady, whose fair hand we heard so often tolled before wedlock, should write as foul a hand as wees met with. We shall, however, attend to Bentley's Story, our compositors can make "any hand" of the hieroglyphi which, however, is more than we can promise. LIVERPOOL APPRENTICES AND MECHANICS' LIBRARY.-There now between 30 and 40 young men on the readings this institution; and it is pretty obvious that before weeks elapse, there will be more readers than books; an our fellow-townsmen follow the example of the good pe of New York, who have presented about six thousandbe to the apprentices' library of that city. It may be neces here to repeat explicitly, that all books of party politie theological controversy, and all frivolous novels w rejected. The books most useful are voyages and tra essays, natural history, biography, and literary melar Odd volumes of magazines will also be very accepta There are few persons in decent circumstances who cal spare a volume or two from their library, or afford t pend a few shillings in the purchase of good sect books from some of our numerous book-stalls. They at some future period, be amply repaid, by reaping the fruit which they have sown; for we can conceive fication greater than the consciousness of having * buted to elevate our fellow-creatures from compar barbarism, to that state of civilization which is th security for the performance of their social and pa duties. Since the donations specified in the Mercury have received some books from Mr. Willmer, boo Lord-street; and we specify them here because the very well selected for the use to which they are to plied:-Adams's History of England; Everard's Book ing; Keith's Geography; Scott's Geography; Kennet man Antiquities; Hervey's Letters, 1 vol.; History a land: The Gamesters, a play; Annual Register for Beveridge's Sermons.

Egerton Smith's second donation:-Shepherd's Paris water's Electricity; Beauties of Hervey.

FAMILIAR CHEMISTRY.-The miscellaneous communi on this subject with which we have been favoured by whose letter bears the Warrington post mark, shall

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E.'s bill of fare shall be presented to our readers in ot
S. S. has entirely mistaken his talent.

BLANKS IN THE TIDE TABLE. We expect very sho
give Mr. Lang's explanation of the point which has b
often discussed by our correspondents.

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