"Until the 25th of October none of the natives of the untry made their appearance, when a party of ten was iscovered up a small river in Bathurst Island. They ere armed with spears, which they threw down, to show hat they intended nothing hostile, accompanying the action with loud and incessant talking and vehement gesTures. Endeavours were immediately made to establish intercourse with them, but they would only come so tar as to take a handkerchief and some trifles, which were put towards them on the end of an oar; they, how ever, afterwards went away apparently well satisfied. On the same afternoon a party of them came down to the settlement, surprised some of the men, who were cutting wood, and took their axes from them, of the use of which they appeared to have a very correct idea. After their retreat a party went in land, and by friendly signs drew them near the fort; but nothing could induce them to come within the line of huts. Nothing was said about the three axes that they had stolen, and three others were given them, when they retired again into the wood. Two days after this they again surprised two men, and took an are and a reaping-hook, and when they were made to understand that this system of plunder would not be permitted, they went away apparently displeased and meditating some mischief. The birds are the pheasant, quail, parrot, paroquet, pigeon, The harbour is of the finest description; the entrance Miscellanics. MOUSE TREADMILL. "Nothing was seen of them after this till the 30th, when eighteen or twenty of them surprised the boat at the watering place. A corporal of marines fired over their heads, but at last many spears were thrown, one of which grazed a midshipman's back, when he singled out the Leader, and fired direct at him, who either fell from being struck, or threw himself down. After this none of them In the 4th volume of the Kaleidoscope, pages 42, 147, made their appearance near the settlement. These people are generally above the middle stature, we made some observations upon the employment of mice their limbs straig it and well formed, possessing wonder in the tread-mill, for the purpose of manufacturing ful elasticity, and rather actively than strongly built. cotton-yarn, at Kirkaldy, in Scotland. Since that time Their colour is nearly black, their hair coarse, but not we have heard nothing more of the subject until an article woolly, and almost all of them are marked with a kind of appeared in that excellent work the Glasgow Mechanics tattoo. The men were entirely naked; but two females that were seen wore a small mat of grass or rushes fast-Magazine, in the form of a letter, from a proprietor of a ened round the body. mouse manufactory establishment. From this entertaining letter we select the following paragraph: "Their arms are the spear, which is a slight shaft, well hardened by fire, about ten feet long, and the waddy, a short stick, which they threw with wonderful precision, striking with certainty a bird on the top of the tallest tree. of New South Wales, but appear to stand a degree higher The natives of this part of New Holland resemble those in the gradatory scale of the human species. In person they are certainly superior, and the covering of the women is no doubt a step towards a higher degree of civilization. Their notions of a Supreme Being and of a future state are evidently less confused and barbarous, for on Bathurst Islands there was found the tomb of a native, which, from its simplicity, and the order in which it was kept, would not have disgraced people much further advanced in intellectual endowment. It was of an oblong shape, open at one end, the remaining sides being railed round with small trees about eight feet in height, many of which were curiously carved with a stone or shell, and surmounted by the waddys of the deceased. The earth was raised above the level, as is usual with Europeans, but this part was not more than three feet long, and at the head stood a piece of canoe and a spear. The sand and bushes were kept clear from around the tomb, and nothing could exceed the neatness of the interior of the area. It is quite unusual to find this respect for the dead among the natives of Australia. "I had one mouse that ran the amazing distance of 18 miles a day; but I have proved to a certainty, that an ordinary mouse runs 10 miles at an average; and a half. days, during which it runs 735 half miles. Now, suppenny worth of oatmeal is sufficient for its support for 35 pose a steam-engine of only one half ounce power, with a piston rod 735 half miles in length, it is evident that one stroke of such an engine would just cost a halfpenny. A steam-engine of 12 inches diameter atmospheric power has a force equal to 36,288 half ounces; let this engine have 18 inches of a stroke; in 735 half miles there is 1,293,600 half yards; divide this by 36.288, the number of half ounces in the engine's power, and we have 35 strokes nearly; so that a halfpenny spent on mouse power, is equal to 354 strokes of a twelve inch diameter engine. If any of thy ingenious correspondents would state the expense of 354 strokes of such an engine, we would then see what difference in expense there is betwixt the power of mice and that of steam." Although we have noticed this employment of mice as a curiosity, we by no means approve of it, and we are of opinion that it would be more humane to dispose of them in the ordinary way. At Affecting Story -Some time ago, a young man took up his residence in a Scottish village, much celebrated for its delightful situation and mineral waters. During his stay, he succeeded in gaining the affections of a very amiable young girl, daughter of the person with whom he lodged. He told her he was a younger branch of a most respectable family in the north of Scotland, and that, owing to some domestic misfortunes, he was then in a kind of exile from his father's house. By this representation he had the address to draw money, to a considerable amount, from the affectionate and trusting girl. length, pretending business, he took leave, solemnly pledging to return in a few weeks and make her his wife. About three months after his departure, a letter was delivered to her, dated from a jail in the south of Scotland. It proved to be from her lover, and stated that a short time after leaving her, he had, from necessity, contracted a trifling debt, and had been thrown into prison: at the same time entreating her, as she valued his regard, to relieve him from a situation so unworthy. The faithful girl, listening only to the dictates of her love, set off immediately, with all the money she could procure, to give him liberty. In an inclement season-through a country with which she was unacquainted-she at length reached the place of her destination. With slow and feeble step. she proceeded upwards in the principal street, but found it impossible to advance, owing to an immense crowd of people to witness the punishment of a criminal. She stepped on the stairs leading to a shop, and involuntarily turning her eyes upon the poor wretch writhing under the lash of the executioner, beheld the object of her tender solicitude. A large placard was placed upon his breast, intimating that the punishment was for the crime of theft. In a state of insensibility she sank into the arms of one of the by-standers. Reason never again dawned on her darkened mind: and, at this moment, she is to be seen wandering in her native village, an affecting instance of the basest villany triumphing over unsuspecting innocence. -Edinburgh Observer. Cibber one day calling to Booth, who he knew was at home, a female domestic denied him. Colley took no notice of this at the time, but when a few days after, Booth paid him a visit in return, called out from the first floor that he was not at home. "How can that be?" said servant-maid, and it is hard indeed if you won't believe Booth, Do not I hear your voice?"-"To be sure you do," replied Cibber; but what then? I believed your me." through England," calls plum-pudding poudin de plomb, A French author, who has recently published a "Tour (lead pudding) and translates Shakspeare's Winter's Tale into Conte de Mr. Winter. The minister Pitt, he says, was called Billy, because he introduced so many bills into Parliament. Dancing to some tune.-The Petit Mercure, a clever French work, published in London, states that Mazurier, the celebrated French dancer, is engaged at Drury-lane, at £40 per night. He now receives 600 francs per night at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, at Paris; and it is said that the managers have realized 300,000 francs during the two years that he has been engaged there. Chinese Saro.-A saw has been introduced into France and the colonies, which will saw the largest and longest trees when laid on the ground, and not placed on stocks, as is the common practice. This instrument, originally of Chinese invention has not been hitherto much known; and, though already found to be very useful, is susceptible of much improvement. "The soil of these islands, as far as a judgment could be Voracity of Tadpoles.-A correspondent of the Meformed, appeared to be excellent, and probably capable of chanics' Register says, that being lately engaged in trying producing all the fruits and valuable shrubs of the eastern the power of some inicroscopes, he procured several small islands. The plants brought from Sidney flourish luxuri- objects from the ponds in the vicinity of Camden-town, antly, and in pursuing the stream of water which has been and among others he had some of those little animals commentioned, several large ponds were found in the neigh-monly called tittle-bats, and also some very small tadpoles An elephant, which has been kept for some time in a bourhood, near which, there is no doubt, valuable rice plan- out of the same pond, which he suffered to remain in the shed near Chitpore, got loose on Wednesday, and being tations may be made. same bottle for future experiments, not imagining that any pursued by several strangers, as well as his keeper, took harm could happen to the fish; but upon examining the flight, and, after running for a mile or two, seized two bottle two days afterwards, not a fish was to be found in it. men with his trunk, whom, after dashing them on the Upon a very minute examination, he discovered the tad ground, he trampled to death. After that he was fortupoles in very good spirits, and that his fish had been re-nately secured, but not without some difficulty.-Bengal duced to perfect skeletons, except that their eyes remained Hurkaru. June 11. untouched. He has tried the experiment twice since, and in both cases with the same result. He mentioned the case to Dr. Birkbeck, and several other gentlemen, and they all appeared not to be aware of the fact. Amongst the timber, some of which is of majestic height, and well calculated for many purposes of human industry, were found a species of lignum-vitæ, the cabbage palm, and the sago palm, with several others, the names of which were not known. There was also a tree which produced a species of cotton, samples of which have been sent to England. "The fish found were chiefly skate, and a small species of bass, and the supply of them was by no means certain. "The animals seen on the island were the kangaroo, the native dog, bandicoot, opossum, rat, and flying squirrel. •Might not this tomb contain the ashes of one, who, from superior wisdom or superior prowess, had undergone, even among these rude people, a kind of apotheosis, and at whose shrine, so carefully preserved, they were in the habit of paying their devotions?--Editor. A few days ago was sold, at Evans's, Pall-mall, for £33. 128. to the Duke of Buckingham, the first tract ever published upon America. It was the celebrated Letter of Columbus, which was long supposed to have been lost, and was unknown to Robertson when he wrote his history of America. There were two editions printed, one with a date, and the other without. The following is the official account of the devastation committed by the wolves in the Government of Livonia, only in the year 1823. They devoured horses, 1841; foals, 1243 horned cattle, 1807; calves, 733; sheep, 15,182; lambs, 726; goats, 2545; kids, 183; swine, 4190; sucking pigs, 312; dogs, 703; geese, 673. A patent has been taken out by a gun-maker, in London, for a new method of discharging fire-arms. It renders the present lock unnecessary, is simple and safe, not being liable to accidents, and will materially reduce the price of guns and pistols Correspondence. "LE BON TEMPS VIENDRA."* TO THE EDITOR. The Drama. THE THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR. previous invitation to establish himself in Dublin, where we are glad to hear his reception has been most flattering. We copy the following account of one of his recent public exhibitions from a Dublin paper: Grand Exhibition of Gymnastic Evolutions." Yester day, Mons. Boujeaux, the celebrated Professor of Gymnastics, reviewed four hundred of the boys of the Hiber. nian School, in the Phoenix Park, and made them go through a variety of experimental tests, to prove their time past instructing them. This interesting examination progress in gymnastic exercises, in which he has been some commenced at three o'clock precisely, and terminated at Nearly all the governors of the institution were five. present, a great number of general officers, and military tators, including many noblemen and persons of the first characters of distinction, and about fifteen hundred specrank. The performances of the boys gave great satisfaction, and drew forth the warmest expressions of admira tion. The skill and ability in the arrangement, and the were highly praised. It was generally acknowledged that superior talents of the Professor in the mode of instruction, utility of the gymnastic art; and that our bodily powers he here realized all that has been said and written on the can, under a proper course of instruction, put forth all their energies and capabilities, far beyond what the most sanguine expectations could anticipate." We are gratified to learn that Mons. Beaujeaux is about to repeat his visit to Liverpool, and we are led to expect him here this day, or to-morrow. Availing himself of the vacation season, he purposes to give a public lecture and exhibition of gymnastics, and also to give lessons, if a sufficient number of pupils can be found. CONTENTS OF THE PRESENT KALEIDOSCOPE: Mrs. Haydn Corri personated the fair Constantia, and introduced Bishop's fine song-" Far from his native mountains torn," in the most finished style. Her voice was brilliant, and her rapidity of execution and shake be- New March, composed for the Scientific Records—New Paspoke her very greatly talented. This lady is, indeed, a very decided favourite. SIR, Mr. Sinclair made his first appearance in this town, SIR, Is there magic in a simple phrase? Can a few short words conjure up a talisman to soothe the soul withal? since his Continental trip, on Monday evening, in the Yes. I have felt it in that line, “ Le bon temps viendra," opera of The Cabinet; and although the masterly voice which has been to one in the world's wild wilderness as of Braham has not yet lost its vibration on my ear, I was the rose of Sharon; as the beauteous glow-worm in the not only delighted but astonished at the very splendid mandarkness of night. Happy was he who placed those words ner in which Mr. Sinclair executed the beautiful airs. He has introduced several effects in the volata passages truly together; happy he who fixes them in his heart as an Egis, more durable than brass, against the ills of life. electric, and extremely chaste; he has, indeed, reached Man is a being of a restless spirit; and what is content-the summit of his profession. His voice is much improved, ment, but a mere chimera! This world, all glorious as it having gained a body of tone I never remember to have The Beautiful It was nature's witnessed before from him. In the air is, was never meant for the home of man. self that gave him that unquiet spirit which the present Maid," and particularly "The Polacca," (which has ever cannot satisfy-for ever hoping for better things-for ever been Braham's darling) he was, indeed, splendid, and prolonging for what it has not; and if it possess all that the duced an energy which highly gratified the audience. Both world can bestow, still craving for something which the songs were unanimously encored, as also the "Bird duet," world claims not; and when it has conquered the whole with Miss Holdaway; in which she exerted her talents to globe, weeping that there is not yet another left to conquer. great effect, and gained high credit. Her acting of Floretta was exceedingly spirited. There scarcely needs a stronger proof of a future state Mr. C. Bland was very successful in his song-" Sweet than this longing of the soul for what exists not here. The past is as a thing of nought-the vision of a busy cheering Hope," and in the duet of "All's well," with dream; the present filleth not the heart; but the future Mr. Sinclair, which was also rapturously encored. His is all our own-ordered and guided by our own free will-voice blended with Mr. Sinclair's delightfully. full of all things that are bright and lovely; and though reality has shown us that Hope herself is faithless, yet is she our heart's beloved, our guest and solace unto death, and humblest, yet strongest, in that dread hour-"Le bon temps viendra." Aye, I have been the plaything of that phrase from very boyhood. In my schoolboy days, mid tasks and flagellations, and a host of petty sorrows, methought the happy time would come when I should be freed from those galling trammels, and launch into that world which seemed so fair. It came at last; yet was it not the gay and happy time I looked for: there came along with it regret to leave that scene of such mingled feelings of joy and sorrow, to part from the friends of my youth and companions of my sports, and even that pale, gray-haired master, whom I thought not I could reverence so much. Other toils awaited me, and harder tasks and deeper studies; and surely, said I, when I have surmounted these, and claimed the honour which crowns them, then " le bon temps viendra." Yet that time came also, and with it the conviction that anticipation could excel reality. The current of my days was altered. Then the cares of life crept on me: fame and fortune were to be sought, and "a local habitation and a name" gained among men; and now, while I am toiling on that rugged path, I still cry with undiminished energy and unabated hope, "Le bon temps viendra!" How widely does thy influence extend, sweet sentence! How dost thou illuminate the dark spirit, and elevate the drooping heart! | Does not the expectant heir fondly cherish thee, as he views the wasting form of some wealthy relative, and sighs over his tenacity of life? Does not the young adventurer, who leaves both home and love to court the smiles of fortune in some foreign clime, revel in the blissful hope that "le bon temps viendra," when he shall again return to his country and his bride? Does not the toil-worn soldier, on his long and dreary march, half naked and famished, pervert thy peaceful meaning, to the brutal hope of rioting to satiety in the plundered city of the conquered enemy? Does not the widowed mother cherish thee, when she looks on her smiling babe, and trusts she may live to see him great and good, as her own fond wish would make him? Does not the very beggar, as he turns away from the cold reproof, think, though he cannot say, "le bon temps viendra " Child of sorrow, dry thy tears! Son of poverty, cease thy complaining! know that thou art not yet quite comfortless, and grave this maxim deeply in thy heart "Le bon temps viendra." • Good times will come. NATHAN. Kaleidoscope. tents. Original paper on the Egyptian Theatrical Critique. To Correspondents. On Wednesday, the new opera, Native Land, was performed: it is a selection of Italian music, and gave Mr. Sinclair an opportunity of displaying his excellence in the "Farewell to Hope and Italian school. The first song, Glory," was a very delicate and chaste performance; and the acting song, "Deep in a Dungeon," was encored from the double gratification of energetic and expressive singing and also very animated and effective acting. Mrs. Haydn Corri (Clymante, a very arduous undertak- In consequence of the copious extracts we have given from ing,) showed her zeal for public favour by her chaste style of executing the difficult music of this piece. Her first song, "Lightly beats the Heart," by Zingarelli, was most chastely sung, and received very great applause, also the ballad, "Julio told me when we parted;" but in the beautiful duet, "Lo! when Show'rs decending," with Miss Holdaway, nothing could exceed the rich display of talent; and a most difficult trio, "Hark, 'tis the Nightingale," by Mr. Sinclair, Miss Holdaway, and Mrs. H. Corri, was delightfully executed. the Crusaders, we have unavoidably postponed several communications prepared for publication, which, however, shall be forthwith attended to.-No Fiction shall positively appear in our next, when we expect also to commence our reprint of Gibbon's Essay on the Study of Literature. self-told narrative of this veteran sailor, we repeat our hope, OWEN ROBERTS.-In bringing to a termination the humble that its publicity may induce some benevolent individuals to exert themselves in his behalf.-To send him to the Workhouse without his wife, would be a sad bereavement to this poor old man, who has no comfort except her exemplary care and attention.-If some considerate person would interest himself in behalf of this blind and weatherbeaten tar, it is our opinion that he might be put upon the out-door list of parish paupers. Miss Holdaway (Cœlio) was all life in the little female hero. Her songs were delivered most pleasingly; and in the duet, "Lo, when Show'rs descending," she exerted her petite voice to great effect; her precision in the trio EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS-We particularly solicit the attention was also much applauded. Mrs. Haydn Corri introduced a new song, "Cupid, thou dear Deceiver," composed by A. Lee, of Dublin; it is a very splendid production; and I find this gentleman is also the composer of "Hours of Rapture," which is, indeed, much superior to the general productions of the present day. A SON OF APOLLO. GYMNASIA. of our readers to the dissertation which forms the first arti cle in the present Kaleidoscope, and which, without some such hint, they might pass over, not expecting that any thing new can be said on the subject of the Pyramids.-We believe, however, that there are one or two points in the interesting paper we recommend to their perusal, upon which few writers have bestowed the attention they seem to merit. When we pledged ourselves to attend this week to the com munication of An Adventurer, the queries of A Subscriber, and of T. S. we were not aware of the circumstance which has obliged us to postpone them another week. Saturday is our most busy day with the Kaleidoscope; and last Satur day was the Liverpool Printers' Annual Dinner, in conse quence of which all our printers were more employed with their knives and forks than with their composing sticks. Many of our readers will recollect Mons. Beaujeux, who Erin. Printed, published, and sold, EVERY TUESDAY, by OR, Literary and Scientific Airror. "UTILE DULCI." This familiar Miscellany, from which religiousand political matters are excluded, contains a varietyof original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism Men and Manners, Amusement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual Volume, with an Index and Title-page.-Its circulation renders it a most eligible medium for Advertisements. No. 264.-Vol. VI. CONTENTS OF THE PRESENT KALEIDOSCOPE: A New French Comedy-The the Floating Bath, Spaniards in Denmark, Scientific Records, Original Paper on Friendship, Gymnastic Exhibitions, Original Papers on Early Variety of Anecdotes, Friendships, Incorrigible Sect of Fanatics, Original letter on the Condi- Singular property of the nuinber nine, Beauties of Chess, Variety of Poetry, &c. tion of Woman, Memoir of Captain Franklin, Singular Ourang Outang, The Drama, THE SPANIARDS IN DENMARK. We flatter ourselves that the selection we have made of this spirited comedy will be acceptable to a great majority of the readers of the Kaleidoscope. The compliments paid to the genius of the author in the London Magazine, to which we are indebted for the translation of the piece, are, in our opinion, amply merited. We have seldom met with a more spirited and discriminating delineation of character than in this piece. The author, like our Shakspeare, possesses the rare talent of giving forcible, peculiar, and individual features to each of the creatures of his imagination: while they all resemble nature (we should say human nature) they differ essentially and distinctly from each other. The preface, which is rather long, will, however, be perused with interest, and cannot be well dispensed with, as it illustrates the plot of the piece, and developes historical associations which add much to the ordinary interest arising from perusal or scenic representation. The whole piece, including the preface, will occupy about twenty-eight columns of the Kaleidoscope; and we shall venture to suggest, that the effect of its perusal would be greatly enhanced if the reader will defer it until the whole is before him. We think it would be to the interest of the theatrical managers to have this comedy got up in this country. They may look in vain in our recent comedies for the spirit, variety, and character evinced in the piece, which we shall now proceed to introduce to our readers.-Edit. Kal. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1825. other author. All the writers in possession of public faFavourite Air by Beethoven, Tim Bobbin's description of vour; all the poetasters, versifiers, and pretended critics, who have smuggled themselves into a kind of literary reputation by learning by rote some score of common places upon the dramatic art, and which they are sure to parade in the same words, and the same order, whenever, unfortunately for their hearers, the subject should be started, all these,-in fine, the whole French republic of letters have been thrown into the utmost consternation by the appearance of the Theatre de Clara Gazul. Happily the Bastille is no longer in existence; or otherwise the French Academy would, probably, in imitation (it is so fond of it) have solicited 66 fetters and warder" for the young and insolent innovator, who, if permitted to pursue his daring course, will not only eclipse, but annihilate their glory. Instead of the forced and improbable incidents, exaggerated and falsely coloured characters, and usurped sentimentalities, of the Ecole de Vieillards of M. de la Vigne, other uncomic comedies, we have in the pieces of this colthe Tyran Domestique of M. Duval, and of numberless lection, and particularly in the principal one, Les Espugnols en Danemarck, a simple, probable, well-managed, and singularly interesting plot; a rapid, original, natural, and energetic dialogue; and, above all, a most masterly and accurate picture of French society, as it existed under Napoleon. The volume contains six dramatic pieces, under the following titles:-The Spaniards in Denmark, a translation of which will terminate this article. A Woman is a Devil, or The Temptation of Saint Antony; African Love; Inés Mendo, or the Triumph of Prejudice; Heaven and Inés Mendo, or Prejudice Vanquished; Continuation of Hell. In the first of these pieces, the ferocious manners, worthy of the middle ages, which Napoleon was desirous of, and had in a great measure succeeded in forming, The comedy does that justice upon Napoleon, which Tahave met with a painter equally faithful and inexorable. citus executed upon Tiberius. It is, at the same time, interesting and appalling from the force of truth. Napoleon sought to make of the young men of France so many Charles le Blancs, and Residents Français, two of the principal characters in the piece entitled, Les Espagnols the most felicitous truth of delineation in the person of en Danemarck. The military instrument is drawn with Charles le Blanc, a lieutenant of the imperial guard, and an equally accurate copy of the civil instrument is presented by the French Resident, in the island of Fuenen. The baseness and villany allied to the bravery of Charles le Blanc, and the same qualities mixed with the poltroonery of the Resident, offer a striking contrast to the frank, generous, and wild heroism of Don Juan Diaz, better known as the brave and unfortunate Porlier, sur named Del Marquesito, who afterwards fell under the bloody fangs of the Nero of Spain, Ferdinand VII. Madame de Tourville, and Madame de Coulanges, are the representatives of the higher class of female spies. The scene is in the island of Fuenen, in 1808, and the subject is the heroic resolution, so ably seconded by the English, adopted by the Marquis de la Romana, on learning what This brave Spaniard resolved to return to Spain, and join had taken place in Madrid on the second of June, 1808. the defenders of the independence of his country. Like most of his countrymen, he had not sufficient judgment, and too much pride, to see that, despot for despot, it was better to have a mild and reasonable man like Joseph Bonaparte, than an obstinate, cruel, and hypocritical fool, like Ferdinand VII. He did not see that Joseph, having no hereditary hold upon Spain, would have been necessitated to be less absurd and more humane than the legiti THE PLAYS OF CLARA GAZUL, of true comedy. A SPANISH COMEDIAN. The French comedies, which are now in possession of the stage, are nothing more than a series of long-winded nonologues, frequently well written, and sometimes witty, but totally destitute of well combined and probable incident, and possessing no interest but that arising from a false and mawkish sentimentality, entirely foreign to the nature In the midst of this general decline of dramatic literature, a very young man has given to the public a volume of dramatic pieces, entitled, La Théatre de Clara Gazul. If the author's after-efforts should fulfil the promise held out by this his first attempt, he bids fair to redeem the literature of his country from the reproach we have been obliged, so unwillingly, to pass upon it. All and each of the pieces contained in this volume merit the immense praise (and which the productions of no other writer since Beaumarchais are entitled to) of being perfectly original, and not modelled upon the works of any *Theatre de Clara Gazul, Comedienne Espagnole. Paris, 1825. 1 vol. 8vo. We have subjoined an entire translation of this spirited Comedy. It is for an article in a Magazine excessively long ines do not give translations of such matters, where is the but it is also excessively good; and we may ask, if the Maga. probability, not find its way into the hands of half a dozen English public to find them?-the volume itself will, in all Individuals in this country.-Ed. PRICE 3 mate Bourbon. He was not aware, in fine, that to be less intolerably governed under an absolute regime, it is necessary that the monarch should have some rival to dread, and that he should hold his power, in some measure, by the force of contrast, and be able to say to his people, "You see I am a lesser evil than he would be who seeks to supplant me." Reflections of this stamp were equally beyond the reach of a brave Spanish soldier, like the Marquis de la Romana, and of the young author, who has, with so much talent, introduced him upon the scene. Every one knows with what address and secrecy the Marquis de la Romana concerted his escape with the English admiral, through the intervention of Captain Don Rafael Lobo, then serving on board the British squadron in the Baltic. Romana and the English admiral completely succeeded in outwitting the Prince de Ponte Corvo, the present King of Sweden, then Commander in Chief of the French army. Such is the principal action of this piece, translation will follow, we shall enter into no further deso successfully dramatized by our young author. As a tails, but confine ourselves to a few observations. To prove to the English reader the unerring fidelity with which the manners of the times are sketched in this production, it is only necessary to state, that the public of Paris already name the personages whom they suppose the author meant to designate by his principal characters: he only meant to paint the vices of the times, but he has done it with such an intuitive tact, that his figures are found to resemble, in the most striking mnaner, well known persons. But to remove any idea of the author dividual, it will be sufficient to mention, that at the period having meant his sketches to apply personally to any inwhen his personages act, as he represents them, namely, in 1808, he was then but four years old, and consequently could not have come in contact with the supposed origi of Tacitus, and the brevity of Florus. How high above nals, whom he has described with almost the profundity the heads of the pretended dramatic poets at present in possession of the theatre, and the seats of the academy, does this precious quality place him? a quality which he partly owes to having followed with unfettered footsteps the voice of nature and the impulse of his heart. Comblood, full of life and reality, the personages of MM. pared with his characters, who are beings of flesh and Duval, Etienne, de la Vigne, &c. mere imitations of their predecessors, the shadows of shades, appear indistinct, unreal, and without the slightest stamp of individualitymere vain abstractions that talk and fret their hour in elegiac verses. To go into much detail upon the other pieces attributed to Clara Gazul would extend this article to an unreasonable length. Besides, the temptation may be resisted with the less regret, as perhaps our example may stimulate somebody to undertake a translation; of this, however, we confess our hopes are not sanguine people do not buy translations from the French because they thinks they ought to be able to read the original. The piece called L'Amour Africain is a rapid but energetic sketch of that passion as it exists in the fiery children of the sun-for forceful simplicity it may be compared to In the Ciel et l'Enfer, will be found all that finesse of some of the best of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. delineation to which Marivaux has accustomed the lovers of French comedy; this is particularly observable in the character of Fray Bartolomeo, an inquisitor and a libertine, who at one and the same time confesses and covets his fair penitents. A residence of three years in Spain, during the time of Joseph Bonaparte, enables us to say, that, after the novels of Cervantes, we have met with no other production that conveys so accurate an idea of the manners of that country as this comedy of Le Ciel et L'Enfer. In the piece called Une Femme est un Diable, terrible and unsparing energy. It resembles a painting of the depravity of the Spanish convents is sketched with a those dramatic literators whose commerce he is about to Tintoret.-The youthful author, dreading the hostility of ruin, has thought proper to preserve an incognito, and has | Frenchmen to speak to. But, alas! I must remain here ushered these six comedies to the world as the productions with a crew of Spaniards, Danes, Hanoverians, and Gerof Clara Gazul, an actress of the principal theatre of Ma- mans; all which good people love each other like cats drid. He has divided his pieces into days, instead of acts, and dogs. I must watch them, amuse them, and speak and at the conclusion of each comedy the principal person- to them the language of reason, nature, and civilization, age turns towards the spectators, and says, "Gentlemen as my instructions prescribe me. Faith, the task is not so and Ladies, excuse the faults of the author." We have easy. I cannot beat it into their heads that the English, little doubt but the public will accede to this request, and with their sugar, are their mortal enemies. They wish to reckon for the verification of our prophecy upon the fact, have colonial coffee, and a hundred other things; but as that the contents of this volume are more true to nature, we do without them, they must also manage to keep their and more impressed with originality, than those of any health without these luxuries. My God! when shall we other that has appeared in France for many, many years. take England! It is the English who force me to remain There is not a single line in it dictated by cant, or conse. in this cursed island with these gibberish speaking Spacrated to the fastidiousness of convention. It may be also niards. Ah! how damp the air is to day! Fortunate necessary to remark, that the author has enfranchised shall I be if I get away without a consumption. I am himself from the two causes of mediocrity and sterility, almost tempted to go to bed, but I must, however, make which, at present, shed so destructive a blight upon out my report. Cursed office! Never an instant of reFrench literature. As we have observed, he has dared pose! A report! and what can I say? The Prince writes to imitate no one-not more Moliére than Destouches; to me that he has reason to suspect the fidelity of the and he has completely set at defiance the censorship, Marquis de la Romana; that I must strictly observe his not having sacrificed a single trait of character or truth conduct, and sound the dispositions of his soldiers. to the hope of having his comedies acted. It is this Yes! sound them-that is easily said. But how am I to noble daring that has so strongly raised the choler of all look into their hearts? The skin of these dingy dogs is those authors at present in possession of the stage; for so black, that nothing can be seen through it. Ah! nothing can place in a more glaring light their utter Parbleu! that is not badly imagined! why is there not nullity than the bold sketches of Clara Gazul. There are some one present to hear it. I shall write that to the Prince not, it is true, in these productions the witty repartees, de Ponte Corvo; it will make him laugh-and it is by the frequent traits, and sprightly bon mots, which sparkle making people laugh that one gets on in the world-that's in the charming little comedies of M. Scribe and M. le it. I shall write that to my friend in Paris, also [writes] Clerc, such as the Somnambule, the Plus beau Jour de la -the idea is not bad. Vie, and the Charlatanisme. It may be answered, that SERVANT enters. the subjects did not admit of such; but, at all events, this defect, if it be one, will be less evident to English readers than French; for the latter are not satified with a phrase which accurately paints a character, unless it be, at the same time, piquant and epigrammatic. This merit is, perhaps, the only one wanting to the very original author of the comedics of Clara Gazul. Resident [alone.] La, la, la, to the devil with this detestable music-the parade is over. I do not relish at all finding myself in the midst of these old bronze visaged soldiers looking out of the window.] Ah! there is General Romana galloping by-he is returning to his lodgings. Let us repose ourselves; Good God! what hard work it is! my instructions oblige me to be continually with these officers. I have just been walking a whole mortal hour with them. Faugh my clothes smell of tobacco sufficient to make one faint. In Paris I should not dare to show myself for six weeks after such a smoking; but in the Isle of Fuenen, in this barathrum, people are not so fastidious sits down] 'umph! They almost frightened me with their long mustachios, and their black and savage looking eyes; and the fact is, that they do not appear to be over and above in love with us French; and these devils of Spaniards are so ignorant, they cannot comprehend that it is in order to secure them happiness that my master gives them his august brother for their sovereign. They complain of the island being cold. Parbleu, I find it so also. I pay dearly for the honour attached to this mission of mine. Morbleu! when I entered upon the career of diplomacy, I imagined I should have been first sent to Rome or Naples; in fine, into some country where good company was to be found. I went to solicit the minister, and, in the course of conversation, had the misfortune to mention that I knew Spanish. "What! you know Spanish?" (said he ;) I was in ecstasy. On returning home, I found passports and instructions, as I thought, for Madrid; but, alas! how different!-they were, for the Spanish division, under Romana, in the Isle of Fuenen! Isle of Fuenen! Good God! How they must be astonished in Paris to hear that I am in the Isle of Fuenen! And, moreover, they make me trot about here and there as if I was one of the military. It would be something if I were in Denmark with the army of the Prince." I should there find Bernadotte. Servant. A lady requests to speak to you, Sir. Resident. A lady! and what kind of lady? Servant. Why, a French woman, Sir. She is well dressed, and of a genteel appearance. Resident. A French woman in the Isle of Fuenen! A French woman at Nybourg! Oh! unexpected happiness. Lafleur, give me my blue coat, and my watch and trinkets -a comb-good-show her in. Enter MADAME DE COULANGES, in a travelling dress. Servant. Madame de Coulanges. [Servant retires. Resident [aside]. The devil! She is certainly the wife of a General [aloud]. I am quite in despair, Madame, at receiving you in the midst of the diplomatic horrors of a cabinet, which Madame de Coulanges. Have the goodness to read this letter, Sir. Resident. Let me first request you to take a seat. Resident. Ah! I beseech you, take this arm chair. Madame de Coulanges. Yes, Sir. That letterResident. I scarcely dare to hope, Madame, that you will prolong your stay in this frightful country? Madame de Coulanges. I cannot say; but if you will take the trouble to read that letter— Resident speaking rapidly]. Nybourg is very dull. It is here that the Spaniards are stationed. They and the Germans are most heartily tired of themselves and each other. We have scarcely any French here. They are unfortunately in Denmark, at the other side of the Belt, with the Prince de Ponte Corvo. However, Madame, your presence at Nybourg will be sufficient to attract hither the whole of the Prince's staff: A desert inhabited by a cenobite such as you Madame de Coulanges. Sir, if Resident. Apropos, and Talma, what has become of him? Madame de Coulanges. I go but seldom to the theatre. If you Resident. I cannot express to you, Madame, how charmed I am to have met in the midst of eternal snowsa rose of Paris-eh! eh! eh! so amiable a countrywoman. I most carnestly desire to have it in my power to be useful to you. If you have need, MadameMadame de Coulanges. I entreat you to take the trouble of reading that letter." Resident. Since you permit it [opens the letter] ho! ho! The devil! You need not blush for that. But what on earth do you wish I should tell you, my charming lady? Madame de Coulanges. Bring me acquainted with the Marquis de la Romana. Resident. But what do you wish that I should tell you? I have closely observed him. There is nothing to be done with a man like him. He is buttoned up to the very chin-and then, observe, he is old; and, beautiful as your eyes may be, they have not the power of resuscitating the dead-eh! eh! eh! [He draws his chair closer to Madame de Coulanges. Madame de Coulanges (drawing back her chair]. He ha probably some friend, an intimate friend, who possess all his confidence? Resident. Yes, he has; but he is a queer sort of pe son. He is Aide-de-Camp, and nephew to the Genera who keeps nothing a secret from him, as I have been tol As to the rest, this Aide-de-Camp is a wild, hectoring so of fellow, who not more than fifteen days ago killed French officer of the greatest promise-and do you kno for what? Because this French officer proposed the healt of his Majesty, the Emperor, and threatened to cut off hi ears if he did not drink it. This Aide-de-Camp not onl did not drink the toast, but he killed the officer ! Madame de Coulanges. Well, Sir, what kind of man i he? What is his character? Resident. His character? Faith, what do you wish tha I should tell you? I do not well know-he is always twirling his mustachios-ah! and then he is a smoker, a most inveterate smoker. Yes, he sometimes passes whole hours shut up with the Marquis, while they smoke together in a singular manner, with little cigars of paper which they make themselves. What I tell you is strictly true, for I have seen it myself. Madame de Coulanges. You have, no doubt, received some notes relative to him? Resident. To tell you the truth, something of this kind has been sent me. But, faith, I know not what has become of them; I have such a heap of papers! They could, however, not have been of much importance, as I recollect nothing of them. Madame de Coulanges. "Tis very well. But, at least, you can tell me his name. Resident. He calls himself Don-You know all the Spa. niards call themselves Don-Don Juan Diaz. They have most extraordinary names! Don Juan Diaz. It is true he has another name, but I cannot recollect it at present. He lives at the Three Crowns, an inn upon the sea-shore. Madame de Coulanges.-That is sufficient; I have to return you many thanks for your information. I must have a thousand crowns. Resident. You shall have them-the letter gives you an unlimited credit, and then with your face-eh! eh! eh! Madame de Coulanges. Could you enable me Sir, to transmit, free of postage, a sum of money to my brother, who is sergeant in the guards; this money is the produce of some French merchandise that I sold in Germany. Resident. Without the least difficulty. Almost every day I send smoked beef to my friends by the diplomatic courier. But may I reckon upon a little gratitude? eh! eh! Madame de Coulanges. The bill is at sight? Resident. At sight, upon Moor and Company. This Mr. Juan Diaz is a fortunate rascal; for we who are in the diplomatic way easily see through the motives of things; you are going to seduce him-eh! eh? I am tempted to become a conspirator myself, eh! eh! eh! Madame de Coulanges. It would not be an easy task, Sir, to penetrate your secrets. I am sorry for having in terrupted your diplomatic occupations for so trifling an affair. Resident. You will permit me, charming creature, to call sometimes on you, and forget the fatigues of diplomacy in your presence. Madame de Coulanges. Pardon me, Sir, you must have, no doubt, forgotten that I ought not to receive the French Resident in the Isle of Fuenen. Resident. The devil! You are to a certain degree right; but with a large dark cloak, such as the Spaniards wear in the evening and under favour of a fog Madame de Coulanges. No. This is my first and last visit. My mother will bring you the notes I may have occasion to write to the Prince. [She puts on her veil, and is about to retire. Resident. Permit me, at leastServant enters. The Aide-de-Camp, you know him; the Aide-de-Camp, and General la Romana wish to speak to you, Sir. Resident. The devil fetch him! Lafleur; Let Ma dame out by the little private stair-case-quick, quickadieu, Syren! [Madame de Coulanges, exit.] What a pity! never did I find myself so full of esprit. And I was making way so fast. To the devil with this importunate fellow! not to have a moment to one's self' [Don Juan enters.] Ah, Sir, I have the honour of presenting you my respects. How do you do? I am charmed. And the dear General ? always the same ?—I am enchanted! take the trouble of sitting down. Don Juan. Will you take the trouble of listening to me? Resident. I am entirely at your orders-dispose of me. Don Juan. It is now six months since we have had any news from Spain; various reasons lead me and the officers of our division to believe that you, Sir, have received orders from your government to intercept our letters, and Resident. Pardon me, Colonel, you are altogether mistaken; and, in order to convince you completely of your error, I shall feel a sincere pleasure to show you the despatches I have just received from your country. Here is a proclamation of his Highness the Grand Duke of Berg; and here is a bulletin announcingDon Juan. And what have I to do with your proclamaions and your bulletins? It is not about such things we are anxious. What we wish for is news of our families, and not of the Grand Duke of Berg. Resident. Sir, there are so many accidents which may prevent a letter from reaching its address. For instance, at is probable that your friend may have forgotten to pay the postage of the letters in Spain, a circumstance of frequent occurrence, or else Don Juan. A pretty excuse! Resident. Will you do me the honour of breakfasting with me? Don Juan. Thank you much, Mr. Resident; I have waiting for me, at my lodgings, some smuggled chocolate, and you will excuse me if I prefer it to your imperial coffee. Resident. Oh! young man, young man! Can you forget the injury you are doing to commerce! Has not this chocolate been brought you by our cruellest enemies? Don Juan. How does that concern me, provided it be good? Resident. Sir, Sir, the chocolate of the tyrants of the sea ought always to appear detestable to an officer who has the honour of serving under the ever victorious banners of his Imperial Majesty. Don Juan. And his Imperial Majesty means assuredly to recompense us for all the continental drugs he makes us swallow, thanks to his blockade. Resident. Undoubtedly, Sir. Is it not his Majesty's desire that the sun of civilization should dart his rays beyond the Pyrennees, and shed that light upon your country which has been hitherto concealed from by the mists of anarchy ? Don Juan. Ha! ha! ha! What paternal solicitude; Low very touching it is! But, Sir, I shall tell you very frankly, that we love the shade in Spain, and that we can do very well without his sun. Resident. What you say is further proof of the need you have of a legislation to remodel you. Permit me, Colonel, to develope the whole of the idea. You Spaniards are not on a level with the age, and even-who could believe it? you shut your eyes to the light that is brought you. Now, Sir, I will lay a wager that you have never read Voltaire. Don Juan. I beg your pardon, Sir, I know a great part of his works by heart. Revident. That being the case, I shall speak no more of them to you. But, to be brief, you are still tainted (not you, Sir, who are an esprit fort, like a Frenchman, but the mass of your compatriots) you are still tainted with superstition; you are as yet so little advanced, that what you most respect are monks and friars. Is it not rendering you a service to import into your country the philosophy of the nineteenth century, and to divest you of your ancient prejudices, the offspring of ignorance and error? Don Juan. Sir, we shall aways receive philosophy with open arms, when it comes to us in cases of good books, but escorted as it is at present by eighty thousand soldiers, I confess to you that it has but few attractions for us. Resident. His Majesty desires to snatch you from the yoke of island-despots. Don Juan. Apropos. It is said that in Portugal, upon the sea-coast near a certain town called VimeiraResident. Oh! Sir. You are very inaccurately in Resident. If you permit me, I will give you in writing | hard bite, and instantly rolled itself up again. It soon a less concise and clearer account. opened a second time, repeated the bite, then closed as if Don Juan. Oh! your statement is quite excellent and for defence. Opened carefully a third time, and then inperfectly clear, and I shall content myself with it. Adieu, flicted a third bite, by which the back of the snake was Sir, I wish you a good appetite, which is quite necessary broken. This done, the hedgehog stood by the snake's to enable you to drink the coffee of the Grande Nation. side, and passed the whole body of the snake successively Exit. through its jaws, cracking it and breaking the bones at Resident. Your servant, Sir, my respects to the Mar- intervals of half an inch or more, by which operation the quis.-Impertinent sneerer! But let him laugh as much snake was rendered entirely motionless. The hedgehog as he pleases, I have taken him in nicely with my account then placed itself at the tip of the snake's tail, and began of the battle of Vimeira. It is most extraordinary! Since to eat upwards, as one would eat a radish, without interI have become a diplomatist I can detail falsehoods with mission, but slowly, till half the snake was devoured, an aplomb and intrepidity that I should have thought it when the hedgehog ceased from mere repledon. During impossible to acquire. Here I am making out bulletins the following night, the anterior half of the snake was as well as a Major-General. Patience, patience! I am completely eaten up. not nailed to this island. One day, perhaps, I shall awake with the portfolio of foreign affairs under my pillow. [Exit. [To be continued.] Natural History. ANOTHER OURANG OUTANG. One of these singular animals, resembling the human species more than any other known, was shipped at Batavia, island of Java, on board the ship Octavia, which has arrived at this port. It was of the male species, and, though alone, he went upon all fours: when any one took him by the hand, or fore foot, could walk tolerably well upright. He was covered with dark hair, but the skin is said to be quite white beneath it. During the passage he used frequently to sit at the table and eat his meals as regularly as one of our own species. He exhibited many traits of sensibility and feeling, as if he knew and felt what it was impossible for him to express. For some time previous to the arrival of the ship he exhibited symptoms of declining health, and soon after the ship anchored, expired not a little lamented. He often, as well as he could, complained of his head, where undoubtedly the disease was, which eventually caused his death. He would throw his arms, (as we must call them) around the neck of those with whom he was intimate, and press the hand with all the tenderness of human devotion. He exhibited many other traits of the human character. The following extract of a letter from the shipper, dated at Batavia, Feb. 7, 1825, contains some particulars: "I have shipped on board the Octavia, Captain Blanchard, an ourang outang, (or the real man of the wood,) to your consignment and Capt. B. This animal is, I suppose, one of the greatest curiosities ever sent to America. I have known one sold in London for £10,000 sterling. This animal is very tender of the cold, and great care should be taken that he be kept in some warm apartment. He is perfectly docile and harmless. I have had him six months at my house, and almost every day, during that time, he has visited my table for a glass of claret, fruit, &c. and possesses many pleasing tricks, which are very seldom to be found in those which come from the Island of Borneo, as they are generally vicious and wild. This animal is almost five years old, and, with care, will still grow much larger. He came originally from the Island of Borneo, and will eat almost any thing that is offered to him." His weight, we understand to have been 75 or 80 pounds, and his height about three feet. The shipper calculated to realize the sum of 20,000 dollars, provided he arrived safe and in good health. He is to be dissected. -Boston Statesman. The Hedgehog and Snake.-The following, related by Professor Brukland, is given in a paper on the habits of formed. Don Juan. How?--I have advanced nothing as yet. animals, by Mr. Broderip, in the Zoological Journal, No. 5:"Having occasion to suspect that hedgehogs ocResident. But I anticipate what you are going to say. casionally preyed upon snakes, the Professor procured a Permit me to tell you the real state of affairs. The English landed at Vimeira, it is true; so far you are well-common snake, (coluber natrix) and also a hedgehog, informed. But we attacked them, turned them, cut them Botanic Garden at Oxford, where it was not likely to have which had lived in a domesticated state for some time in the in pieces; in fine, made a most frightful carnage. It appears even that a great number of their Generals have seen snakes, and put the animals together in a box. The fallen. Their army, in a word, was most irretrievably snake was in continual motion, creeping round the box as hedgehog was rolled up at their first meeting, and the disorganized; after which our brave troops, in consequence if in order to make its escape. Whether or not it recogof superior orders, embarked for Brest in France. This is, Sir, the exact truth. nised its enemy was not apparent-it did not dart from The hedgehog remained rolled up, and did not appear to the hedgehog, but kept creeping gently round the box. see the snake. The Professor then laid the hedgehog on the body of the snake, with that part of the ball where the head and tail meet downwards, and touching it. The snake proceeded to crawl,-the hedgehog started, opened slightly, and seeing what was under it, gave the snake a Don Juan. This is quite admirable-a thousand thanks. 1 shall go and communicate to my friends the intelligence you have given me. Alluding to the battle of Vimeira, 21st June, 1808. The French, under Junot, capitulated at Cintra, and embarked for France. The Walrus.-The ability of the walrus to climb steep surfaces of ice, and smooth high rocks, which has often astonished polar navigators, has been found by Sir Everard Home to be owing to the hind feet, or flippers, being furnished with a cupping-like apparatus, similar, but on a gigantic scale, to those in the feet of flies, which enable the latter to walk on upright glass, or even on a smooth Iceiling, supported by the atmosphere pressing against the vacuum they are enabled to form under the cavities of their feet. It is the same also with the geco, a rat-like animal, which in India runs up and down the faces of the of the walrus flipper, in a surprising manner, represent a gigantic human hand, capable of spanning twenty-eight inches or more. Although these animals sometimes weigh a ton and a half, there seems little reason to doubt their capability of supporting this great weight by pedalion suction against a mass of ice.-Phil. Trans. smoothest walls, in chase of flies and insects. The bones Biography. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF CAPTAIN FRANKLIN. "In battle fearless, and in danger brave, shire, in the year 1786, and entered the Navy, as midCaptain John Franklin was born at Spilsby, in Lincoln. the present Vice Admiral Lawford, in the Polyphemus. shipman, at the early age of fourteen, under command of After serving in that vessel at the battle of Copenhagen, in April, 1801, Mr. Franklin subsequently sailed with Capt. Flinders on his voyage of discovery, in the Investigator; and upon that ship being declared unserviceable, joined the Porpoise, under the command of the present Captain R. M. Fowler, and was wrecked on a coral reef on the east coast of New Holland, where the crew remained upwards of eight weeks, until they were relieved by a vessel sent to their assistance from Port Jackson. Mr. Franklin then accompanied Capt. Fowler to Canton, and re-embarked with him in the Honourable East India Company's ship Earl Camden, commanded by Sir Nathaniel Dance; on which homeward bound passage the Company's fleet beat off the French squadron under the orders of Admiral Linois. Upon his return to England, Mr. F. joined the Bellerophon, Capt. Loring, and was on board that vessel in the ever-memorable victory of Trafalgar, then under the command of Captain John Cook, who fell in the action.-In October, 1807, Mr. Franklin was appointed to the Bedford, in which ship he remained nearly eight years, employed on the Brazil, North Sea, and West Indian stations; during which period he distinguished himself in the capture of the American gun-boats previous to the attack at New Orleans; and was also attached to the parties of seamen serving on shore during the whole of the operations at that place, under the orders of Rear Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm. Mr. Franklin was next appointed but on the reduction of the war establishment remained First Lieutenant of the Forth, Captain Sir William Bolton; on shore until January 1818, when he was given the comNorth Pole, under the orders of Capt. Buchan. That mand of the Trent, on the voyage of discovery to the squadron having returned in the succeeding autumn, in April following Lieut. F. was appointed to the command of left England in May 1819; and returned in October 1822; an overland expedition in North America, with which he he was promoted to the rank of Commander in January 1821, and made Port Captain in 1822. He is now on a second overland expedition to the Nort Pole; and great hopes are entertained that he and the brave Parry will return successful and triumphant. |