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Saw of the Chinese, 15.

Scalds and burns, alleged cure for, 117.
Schiller, story by, 429-Genius of, 436.

School, lines on revisiting the neighbourhood of, 20.
School of Arts, Liverpool-see Wilson.

Schulz, Mr. and his sons' concert, excellent performance,

and new instrument, 96, 104, 112.
SCIENTIFIC RECORDS, 13, 67, 76, 78, 84, 95, 112, 119,
125, 129, 133, 136, 140, 141, 144, 145, 151, 155, 162,
189, 241, 260, 304, 351, 373, 388, 393, 422.

Scotch novels, query as to the author of, editorial remarks
on, 32-Careless style of the author of, 184.
Scotch proclamation, old and whimsical, 207.
Scotland and Scotchmen, original sketches of, 90, 114, 146.
Scott, Sir Walter, reception of, in Dublin, 40-Sir Walter
and blarney, 117-Letter of, to the author of Irish
Fairy Legends, 381.

Sea monsters, huge, 387, 422.
Seduction, fatal effects of, 89.

Serpent, great American Sea, editorial article, and letter
on, 387.

Sewers, water, Cuff's improved, with engravings, 76-
Editorial remarks on, 76.

Sex, condition of the-sce Women.

Shaving, gratis, 23.

Sheathing-copper, Sir Humphry Davy's, 94.

Songs, by G. 52, 76, 140.
Sonnets, by G. 108.

Southcotte, Johanna, tribe of the disciples of, in Lanca-
shire, 22.

Spaniards in Denmark, new and clever French play, by
Clara Gazul, 17, 26, 38, 45, 54.

Spanish literature, 1, 34.

Turkeys, introduction of, into Greece, 23.
Turkish gentlemen, 382.

Twist, Dr. Timothy, song by, 172.

U.

Ua More, a remarkable cavern, 177.
Unchanging love, verses by G. 132.
V.

Vandenhoff, Mr. notices of, 297-And dramatic critiq

340.

Vegetables, how to preserve, for winter, 375.
Veil, the antiquity of, 227.
Venice, city of, described, 278.

Spider, respiration of, 109-Curious facts respecting, 199. Ventriloquism and ventriloquists, 143, 144, 144, 155,
Spontaneous combustion, 176.

Spring, a dream of (verses) 360-Lines on, 424.
Stains, how to remove, 83.
Stanzas, by G. 164.

Steam life-boat, editorial remarks on-see Hillary, Sir W.
Sting of a wasp, instant cure for, 88.
Stomach, syringe for emptying, with engravings, 241, 253.
Straw, men of, or sham men, 167.

Style, alteration in the, whimsical remark on the, 23.
Subaltern, half pay (verses) 204.
Sugar and slavery, 201.

Suli, the women of, 196.

Sun, ode to the, 328.

Supernatural appearances-see Preternatural.
Superstition, honesty resulting from, 59.
Supper-eating, and sleep, 71.

Supply and demand, considerations on, 157.
Surgical operation, critical, 351.

Suwarrow, Marshal, anecdote of, 144.
Swallows, facts relative to, 30.

Swimming-collar, new-see Smith, Egerton.
Swithin, St. and 40 days' rain, 35.

-see Alexandre, M.

Village sketch, by Miss Mitford, 153.
Vinegar from sugar, 83.

Vive la Bagatelle! 177, 205, 212, 220, 228, 237, 244.
Volcanic appearance in the moon, 351.
Volcano in Owhyee, 319.

Voltaire, saying of, 144-Compliment to, 144.
Voyages and travels, extracts from, 3, 11, 14, 141, 1
197, 379, 423-Return of the Blonde, from the Sa
wich Islands, 310, 345-sec Franklin.

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Switzerland, travels in, 234-Lines on, by Bernard Bar Washerwoman, the, a sketch, 305.

ton, 260.

Syringe for the stomach, 241, 253.

T.

Tadpoles, voracity of, 15.
Tales or stories, 6, 10, 10.
Talina, anecdotes of, 89, 127.
Tasso and his sister, verses on, 244.
Tears, essay on, 283.

Temper, amiable, the advantages of an, 66.
Temperature-see Heat.
Tenures, singular, 383.
Thalia, lines by, 164.

Watches, marching, in London, 345.
Water-courses, improved-see Sewers.
Water-cress, hints respecting, 311.

Waterton, Mr. his wanderings in South America, 193, 20
Waverley, author of, careless style of, 184.

Webbe, Mr. Samuel, new arrangement by, of "God sa
the King," 269.

Weber, the composer, sketch of the life of, 313, 416
Original lines to the memory of, 416-Anecdotes of, 43
Weeping at a play, whimsical paper on, 95.
Weights and measures, new, 203.

Welshman and wild boar, 222.

"That," the word, may be used 8 times in uninterrupted"What if the tempest fiend," &c. 252.
succession, 192, 200, 208, 212, 240.

"The lyre which now I tune," 28.

White lady, the, 127.

Wife, lines to, by a husband, 148.

Will of Sir W. Dixie, in rhyme, 276-Singular, 382.
Wilson, the Rev. A. speech at the Liverpool School
Arts, 134.

Theatre of Liverpool and Manchester, &c. notices of, 8, Wild boar, the, 222.
16, 188, 204, 329, 339, 360, 375, 383, 396, 404.
Theatre, prices in Queen Elizabeth's time, 197.
"There is a spirit," &c. (verses) 360.
Thucydides (from the French) 316.
Thundering sublimities, 328.

Tintern Abbey, lines on viewing, 376.

Sheridan, life of, by Moore, editorial comments on, and Tongue, in the Chinese language is She, 143-Of woman
selections from, 121, 122, 130.

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Translations (original)-see Edward, Spanish, French,
German.

Translations, or rather mistranslations, whimsical speci-
mens of, 15.

Travels in the East, 70-In Africa-see Africa.

Travels on the Continent, in a series of letters, 158, 182,
202, 209, 234, 246, 250, 262, 266, 278, 298, 342, 359,
370, 378, 390, 394, 402, 418, 426.
Tread-mill, mice employed in, 15.

Tree, Miss M. 69.

Trifling, literary, 235.

Troubadour, the, 60.

Truth of man (verses) 84.

Wilton, Langland, Baron of, 88.
Wind, sonnet to the moaning, 244.
Winter, lines to, 432.

Wolves, devastation by, 15.

Woman, verses on the truth of, 12, 20-On the conditio
of, in society, editorial remarks on, and letters respec
ing, 24, 217, 233, 233, 249, 332.

Women slighted in Cromwell's time, 123.
Women, old, verses by Gerard, 180.
Woodstock, remarks on, and extracts from, 348, 369, 37
389-King's house at, singular noises heard, and sigh
seen at, 365.

World, the (verses) 424.

Worms and slugs, recipe for destroying, 364.
Writers, modern, satire on, 32.
Writing, minute, 277.

Y. Z.
Yamma and Captain S. 42.

Year-see Naturalist's Diary.

Year 1826, G.'s lines on, 204-New, lines to, 212, 236.
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THE LETTERS OF JUNIUS.
(Continued from our last.)

[In order to render our examination of Mr. Coventry's interesting work as complete and satisfactory as possible, we shall lay before our readers the following desultory xtracts from the Liverpool Mercury.]

Mottram-R. Wagstaff;
Newcastle-under-Lyme-J.Mort;
Newcastle-u.-Tync-J. Finley;
Newtown-J. Salter;
Northwich-G. Fairhurst;
Nottingham-C. Sutton;
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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1825.

ought to feel grateful to any writer who adduces such evi-
dence as must for ever terminate these useless controver-

gies.

In like manner, if Mr. Coventry has, as we firmly believe, settled the long-agitated question respecting Junius, we owe him our acknowledgments for having terminated a dispute which has occasioned so useless a waste of the time of the public, and such an accumulation of literary lumber. So numerous are the books and pamphlets which have been put forth, with the sole object of identifying the author of Junius, that the mere enumeration of their titles occupies about thirty lines in the Bibliotheca Britannica.

When we last week introduced this subject to the notice
of our readers, we promised to enter more fully into a
tritical examination of Mr. Coventry's book through the
šiterary department of the next Kaleidoscope. In conse-
It is impossible to ascertain how many similar works
quence of this pledge, we have perused the work with the might have pestered the public had not our author in-
most scrupulous and unbiassed attention; and the result terposed, by removing the veil behind which the author of
af our examination appeared in our minor work of last Junius' Letters has remained concealed for half a century.
Fuesday. One point, however, which bears strongly Thanks, however, to the penetration and perseverance of
apon the question, had eluded our notice; and as we
Mr. Coventry, no critic, in future, need fatigue himself
leem the final settlement of this long-pending inquiry an and the public with guesses and hypotheses to disprove
important desideratum, for reasons which we shall pre-what, in our opinions, is now as satisfactorily demon-
ently state, we resume the subject here, availing our-strated as any moral proposition can possibly be.
selves of the greater portion of the remarks which have
dready appeared in the Kaleidoscope, to which we shall
ppend such observations as have occurred to us since
par first perusal of the work under review.

We entirely agree with Mr. Coventry, where he says, speaking of Lord George," His interview, also, with Lord Mansfield, a few days previous to his death, is another extraordinary circumstance, which cannot be accounted for on any other supposition than the sense he entertained of the injury his pen had inflicted on that nobleman, and his unwillingness to leave the world without making him some acknowledgment."

The editor of a periodical journal entitled "The News
f Literature and Fashion," in his publication of June the
15th, after admitting that the claims of Lord George Sack-
ville to the authorship of the letters of Junius appear to
him better founded than that of any other individual,
Lord George had had no personal acquaintance with
concludes in these words, "but we confess the question Lord Mansfield since the Minden affair; yet, when he
appears to us one of infinitely small importance." Now, was dying, we find him sending for Lord Mansfield,
with all due deference to the superior pretensions of a and soliciting his forgiveness for any injustice of which,
"in the fluctuation of politics, or the heat of party,"
metropolitan critic, we take leave to observe, that to obtain
■ final and irrevocable judgment on this question, which he might have been guilty towards him. These cir-
has been pending in our literary court of chancery of Lord George Sackville, are related in a very interest-
cumstances, and many other particulars in the life
for half a century, would be a "consummation devoutly ing manner in the Memoirs of his own Life, by Cum-
to be wished;" and we will venture to add, that the so-berland, the dramatic writer, who was secretary to Lord
lution of the problem respecting the identity of Junius
possesses, at least, a strong negative interest, by the con-
quences which must result from the discovery.
There are events destitute of any intrinsic interest what-
ver, which acquire importance simply because the feelings
prejudices of mankind have attached importance to
them. The precise period when Homer was born, and
the exact place of his nativity, are matters of very little
tasequence; the only circumstance of much value con-
tected with the memory of that great poet, is his having
produced his Illiad and Odyssey. Literati and antiqua-
kans, however, attach mighty importance to the precise
place, or era, of his birth; or the exact site of that Troy

hich he has immortalized.

"A hundred cities Homer claim, when dead,
Through which, when living, Homer begg'd his bread."

Commentaries without number have been written to solve
these questions, in themselves of little importance, and
the multiplication of such works is a positive evil, we

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"A few days after Junius's violent letter to the Duke of Grafton, Mr. Woodfall received a most extraordinary letter from his correspondent, wherein he says, I really doubt whether I shall write any more under this signature. I am weary of attacking a set of brutes whose writings are too dull to furnish me even with the materials of contention, and whose measures are too gross and direct to be the subject of argument, or to require illustration.' He had the impudence to go to Lord George Sackville, "That Swinney is a wretched, but a dangerous fool. whom he had never spoken to, and to ask him whether or no he was the author of Junius-take care of him.'

"Whenever you have any thing to communicate to me, let the hint be thus, C at the usual place, and so direct to Mr. John Fretley, where it is absolutely impossible I should be known.'

arise:

From a perusal of this letter, eight distinct questions

"1. Why should Junius think of altering his signature? 2. How could Junius know that Swinney had called upon Lord George Sackville?

8. How could Junius know that Swinney had never before spoken to Lord George Sackville?

"4. Why should Junius alter the direction of Mr. John Middleton to Mr. John Fretley, in consequence of Swinney's call?

5. How could this alteration operate so that he could not possibly be known?

6. What difference could it make to Junius, Swinney having called upon a wrong person?

7. Would not Junius, who was so anxious to preserve strict secrecy, have rejoiced at Swinney's mistake, instead of being angry with him?

8. Is not the language used by Junius, in speaking of Swinney, directly in unison with Lord George Sackville's language to Mr. Luttrell in the House of Commons, where the word wretched' occurs in both instances?

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George, and lived with his patron and friend in the closest
intimacy. Lord Viscount Sackville was at his seat at
Stoneland, near Tunbridge Wells, during the period of
his last illness. Lord Mansfield happened to be at the
Wells at that time, and it was Cumberland himself who
conveyed to him Lord Viscount Sackville's request that
he would favour him with an interview.
Mr. Coventry very properly adduces specimens of the
handwriting of Junius, and of that of Lord George Sack-Sabio, (the Wise.) It was he who formed the famous As-
ville, as corroborating testimonies in favour of their identity. tronomical Tables which are still carefully preserved in the
There is, certainly, a very considerable resemblance in Cathedral of Seville. He perfected the Spanish code,
character; but we are inclined to think that no very de- called Las Siete Partidas, because it is divided into seven
cided inference can be deduced, from a comparison between parts, corresponding to the seven letters which compose
the handwriting of a young man, in a careless and unstu the name of Alfonso. He introduced the national lan-
died correspondence with his friend, and that of a person
of fifty years of age, carefully transcribing the manuscripts guage into all the acts of judicature and public writ-
to be transmitted to his printer, and influenced by the ings. This example was soon imitated in England by
most cogent motives for concealment.
Edward the Third. A great number of works were, by
his order, translated into the Castilian language. Not
content with lavishing immense sums for the improve-
ment of the sciences, he himself set a successful example
of study. Unhappily, he could not in his writings rise

Our space is too limited to allow us to follow the author through all his researches and comparisons; but we cannot refrain from citing one of his concluding arguments in favour of Lord George Sackville being the author of Junius.

Feb. 1662-3.-To Lincoln's Inn Fields; and it bei

superior to the taste and spirit of his age. Among the pez de Ayala flourished. He left to history, as well as to Battersby; and we falling into discourse of a new book works of this great man there is a very singular one, poetry, several precious monuments. He translated Livy drollery in use, called Hudibras, I would needs go to fi which is in the Royal library of Madrid, and which was about the time that the learned Benedictine, Peter Ber-But when I come to read it, it is so silly an abuse of t it out, and met with it at the Temple: cost me 2s. composed in 1272. It is a poem, or rather a treatise on chorius, rendered the same service to France. Ayala also Presbyter Knight going to the wars, that I am ashamed the philosopher's stone, written in magic character. It translated, from the Latin, the treaty of Boetius, De Con- it; and, by and by, meeting at Mr. Townshend's at di is thought that this book belonged to the Marquis of Vil-solatione Philosophiae, and that of Isidore, De Summoner, I sold it to him for 18d. lena, and that it was among the number of those saved by the Bishop of Segovia. Giles Gonzalez de Avila, in his history of the church of Seville, has given, in Spanish verse, the introduction to this work, entitled Thesoro. The Royal poet declares in it, that he had invited over a famous chymist of Alexandria, in Egypt, to teach him the art of making gold; that they both practised it together; and that he acquired, by this means, a perfect knowledge of the philosopher's stone. Might not this stone, that he pretended to have found, have been an allegory, under which he wished to persuade his subjects and the neighbouring nations that he had a supernatural power?

too soon to go to dinner, I walked up and down, and look upon the outside of the new theatre building in Coven garden, which will be very fine. And so to a bookselle in the strand, and there bought Hudibras again, it bein certainly some ill humour to be so against that which a the world cries up to be the example of wit; for which am resolved once more to read him, and see whether I ca

find it or no.

Bono; from the Italian, the Fall of Princes, by Bocacio,
and the history of Troy by Guido Colonna. He lived
under four kings, Peter, Henry II. John I. and Henry III.
of whose reigns he wrote chronicles. Those of the three
first have been printed; but that of Henry the Third re-
mains in manuscript, in the convent of St. Martin, at
Madrid. There is in the manuscript an original letter of
Bajazet to Henry the Third. It is worthy of preservation Nov. 28, 1663.-To Paul's Church-yard, and the
for having occasioned the famous embassy which the lat-looked upon the second part of Hudibras, which I bu
ter sent to Tamerlane, and of which Ruy Gonzalez de not, but borrow to read, to see if it be as good as the firs
Clavijo was the bearer. Argote de Molina has published which the world cried so mightily up, though it hath n
a good liking in me, though I had tried it but twice
a very curious account of it. Ayala is reproached for three times reading to bring myself to think it witty.
having shown a guilty partiality for Henry of Transta
mare, in his rebellion against his brother Peter, surnamed
the Cruel, whom the latter assassinated with his own
hand, and afterwards succeeded. The true chronicle of
Peter was written by John of Castro, Bishop of Jean, but
it was suppressed by the partisans of Henry, when he was
established on the throne,

Alfonso was author of a great number of works. In the Royal library of Toledo there is a manuscript of paper in Spanish, one volume folio, containing only his miscellaneous works. There is in the same volume a treatise upon the purgatory of St. Patrick, in Ireland. This is perhaps the origin of the famous vision of Odaenius, which is related by some Irish historians. They also Among the authors who distinguished themselves about attribute to Alfonso the introduction of paper into Chris- the end of the fourteenth century, there are few who tian Spain. But it appears that the Mahometans previ- joined, like Ayala, a taste for history to that of poetry. ously knew the use of it; for Sarmiento assures us that Father Sarmiento calls this epoch the age of Spanish he saw a paper manuscript dated 1261. The political ca- chronicles, from the great number of those which remain. reer of this prince was less fortunate than his literary one. It is very common to see these studies allied. The first Competitor with Richard, Duke of Cornwall, for the im- poems in almost all countries are recitals, in verse, of the perial crown, he had the misfortune to see his rival pre-events of the times. The infancy of Spanish poetry, of ferred to him, His pretended discovery of the philoso- which this chapter is but a brief view, resembles, in this pher's stone could not furnish him with sufficient gold respect, that of other nations. for the necessary gifts. He was, therefore, obliged to impose heavy taxes on his subjects. The latter became tired with seeing their monarch more occupied with the course of the stars than with the prosperity of his kingdom: they revolted. His second son, D. Sancho, placed him self at their head, and deprived the astrologer of his It is this same D. Sancho who lessened, in some degree, the shame of this triumph, by more glorious vic. tories over the Moors, and who, in history, has acquired the surname of El Bravo.

crown.

The Prince D. Manual, cousin to the unfortunate Alfonso, cultivated poetry with equal success. His picce, called El Conde Lucanor, published by Argote of Molina, is composed of forty-nine tales, each of which terminates by a short moral. The poems of this prince

are in general more correct than those of D. Alfonso.

About this time flourished a poet remarkable for his singularity and satires. His works had, for a long time, escaped all the researches of biographers, and were at last discovered by Louis Velasquez, chevalier of the order of St. James. We speak of John Ruys, Archdeacon of Hita, who lived in 1330. His manuscripts are in the library of Toledo. His principal performance is a satirical one, a contest between Carnival and Lent. To give an analysis of this strange production, would scarcely prove accept able to the reader. Like many others of the same era, or of an era immediately subsequent, it is a religious allegory, in which Ash Wednesday, Breakfus, Love, and the Flesh, act subordinate parts to the heroes above-mentioned. Such a work may anfuse children, and those who are scarcely one degree above children, the people of a dark and barbarous age; but to a modern it would assuredly be disgusting, did it not present a curious, and probably a faithful, picture of the manners of the times. But the Spanish, and even some French critics, have pretended to discover in it traces of a mighty genius; and yet after all they are obliged to confess that a considerable portion of it is perfectly unintelligible. Judging from the specimen in Sarmiento, we have no wish to see any more of the

Archdeacon.

About the end of the fourteenth century D. Pedro Lo

"Dec. 10.-To St. Paul's Church-yard, to my bool seller's, and could not tell whether to lay out my mone for books of pleasure, as plays, which my nature was mo earnest in; but at last, after seeking Chaucer, Dugdale Trent, besides Shakspeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's play History of Paul's, Stow's London, Gesner, History I last chose Dr. Fuller's Worthys, the Cabballa, or Co lections of Letters of State, and a little book, Delices d Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good us or serious pleasure; and Hudibras, both parts, the boo now in greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, confess, see enough where the wit lies. My mind bein thus settled, I went by link home, and so to my office, an to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bec Calling at Wotton's, my shoe-maker's, to day, he tell to the Duke's house again; and of a rare play to b me that Sir H. Wright is dying; and that Harris is com acted this week of Sir William Davenant's. The story o Henry the Eighth with all his wives."

Another celebrated literary person is, among severa other memoranda, thus spoken of:

When the poems mentioned in the present chapter "Nov. 5th, 1665.-By water to Deptford, and ther appeared, little was known of the great models of antiquity; made a visit to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things and the Castilian writers may be said to have invented showed me most excellent painting in little; in distemper the art to which they applied themselves with so much Indian incke, water colours; graving; and, above all, the emulation. This consideration may serve as an excuse whole secret of mezzotinto, and the manner of it, which i for a style generally monotonous, and never rising higher very pretty, and good things done with it. He read to m very much also of his discourse he hath been many years than what we call prose in rhyme. Yet through the ob and now is about, Gardenage; which will be a most noble scurity and often puerility of their compositions, sparks of and pleasant piece. He read me a part of a play or tw genius are frequently visible, and many sound maxims of of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, morality and policy make some amends for poverty of think, to be. He showed me his Hortus Hyemalis: leave imagination, and especially of feeling. The defects of serve colour, however, and look very finely, better than a laid up in a book of several plants kept dry, which pre their writings must be attributed not so much to the wri-herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and mus ters as to the age,-an age covered with darkness, and destitute of good standards of imitation. At such an age, the Spaniards were certainly as much advanced in the progress of civilization as the inhabitants of any other country, Italy alone excepted; and the only rational criterion by which their literary merit can be estimated, is to compare it with that of other nations at the same period.

MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S.

[Continued from our last.]

be allowed a little for a little conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read own that were not transcendent, yet one or two very prett me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of hi epigrams; among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.

"24th.-Visited Mr. Evelyn, where most excellent dis course with him; among other things he showed me lieger of the Treasurer of the Navy, his great grandfather just 100 years old; which I seemed mighty fond of, and he did present me with it, which I take as a great rarity and he hopes to find me more, older than it. He als showed me several letters of the old Lord of Leicester's, i Queen Elizabeth's time, under the very handwriting o Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Mary, Queen of Scots; an others, very venerable names. But, Lord! how poorly methinks, they wrote in those days, and in what plain un cut paper."

After all, however, the literature mentioned by Pepy does not bear a proportion to other subjects, but may b called scanty: we can add but few more instances:

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[We gave, last week, some extracts from this book, as
we found them selected in The Literary Gazette. We
had not then seen the work itself. We have since had an
opportunity of perusing a considerable portion of it, and
have no hesitation in pronouncing it the most curious, in-
teresting, and valuable publication which has appeared for
such graphic illustrations of the manners, customs, amuse-
many years. We know not, indeed, where we could find
ments, and habits, of the age in which Mr. Pepys lived:
and the whole is described with such unaffected simplicity,
such unstudied minuteness of detail, that the reader seems
to be his companion, and to see and converse with all that
he describes and every person he mentions. Having borne
this testimony to the peculiar merits of these most enter-know before.
taining volumes, and, as they are not yet regularly before
the public, we shall proceed to gratify our readers by a few
more extracts, selected from those which we find in The
Literary Gazette of this day.]—London Courier.

1667, Aug. 10th.-Sir John Denham's Poems ar going to be all printed together; and, among others, som new things; and among them he showed me a copy o verses of his upon Sir John Minnes's going heretofore t Bullogne to eat a pig. Cowly, he tells me, is dead; who it seems, was a mighty civil, serious man; which I did no

"12th. To my bookseller's, and did buy Scott's Dis course of Witches; and do hear Mr. Cowly mightily la mented (his death) by Dr. Ward, the Bishop of Winches ter, and Dr. Bates, who were standing there, as the bes poet of our nation, and as good a man. 'Sept. 1688.-To my booksellers for Hobbs' Levia "Dec. 26, 1602.-To the Wardrobe. Hither come Mr. than,' which is now mightily called for; and what wa

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jeretofore sold for 8s. I now give 24s. at the second hand, und is sold for 30s, it being a book the Bishops will not t be printed again."

We turn from letters to theatricals, respecting which the entries are very numerous and very entertaining. Mr. Pepys was a great play-goer, and his remarks on the first Bights of plays, which now constitute our ancient drama, will be read with much interest; they also incidentally serve happily to illustrate the manners of the times :“1660. August 18th.-Captain Ferrers took me and Creed to the Cockpitt play, the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, The Loyal Subject' where one Kinaston,† a boy, acted as the Duke's sister, but made the loveliest lady I ever saw in my life. "Oct. 11th-In the Park we met with Mr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see The Moore of Venice,' which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; by the same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered.

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"Nov. 20th.-Mr. Shepley and I to the play-house near Lincoln's Inn-fields (which was formerly Gibbon's tennis-court) where the play of Beggars' Bush' was newly begun; and so we went in and saw it well acted: and here I saw the first time one Moone,§ who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England.

"Dec. 31st.-In Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of Henry the Fourth, and so went to the new theatre and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would; and my having a book, I believe, did spoil it a little.

"Jan. 3d, 1660-1.-To the Theatre, where was acted Beggars' Bush,' it being very well done; and here the first time that I ever saw women come upon the stage. "7th.-Tom and I, and my wife, to the Theatre, and there saw The Silent Woman.' Among other things here, Kinaston the boy had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a gallant; and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house; and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in the house.

**23d.—To the Red Bull (where I had not been since plays come up again) up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poore, and the actors but common fellowes. At last into the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called All's lost by Lust,' poorly done; and with so much disorder; among others, in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uproar.

"July 2d.-Went to Sir William Davenant's¶ Opera; this being the fourth day that it hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. To-day was acted the second part of The Siege of Rhodes."** We staid a very great while for the King and the Queen of Bohemia. And by the breaking of a board over our heads, we had a great deal of dust fell into the ladies' necks and the men's haire, which made good sport. The King being come, the scene opened; which indeed is very fine and magnificent, and well acted, all but the Eunuche, who was so much out that he was hissed off the stage.

"Dec. 16th. After dinner to the Opera, where there was & new play (Cutter of Coleman-street), made in the year 1658, with reflections much upon the late times; and it being the first time the pay was doubled, and so to save money, my wife and I went into the gallery, and there sat and saw very well; and a very good play it is. It seems of Cowley's making.

"Feb. 5th, 1662.-To the Play-house, and there saw Rule a Wife and have a Wife,' very well done.

*** A Tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher."

And

"+ Edward Kynaston, engaged by Sir W. Davenant in 1660 to perform the principal female characters: he afterwards as on the stage till the end of King William's reign. The period sured the male ones in the first parts of tragedy, and continued "The Beggars Bush,' a comedy by Beaumont and

of his death is not known."

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here also I did look long upon my Lady Castlemaine, who, notwithstanding her sickness, continues a great beauty. "March 1.-To the Opera, and there saw Romeo and Juliet,' the first time it was ever acted. I am resolved to go no more to see the first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less."

The following may also be received as strongly displaying the manners of the times:

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"I to Sir George Carteret's, to dinner; where Mr. Cofferer Ashburnham; who told a good story of a prisoner's being condemned at Salisbury for a small matter. While he was on the bench with his father-in-law, Judge Richardson, and while they were considering to transport him to save his life, the fellow flung a great stone at the Judge, that missed him, but broke through the wainscoat. Upon this he had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently." The following noble anecdote shows the spirit of our brave tars, even when they were generally so ill paid, ill commanded, and ill disciplined:

"Invited to Sir Christopher Mings' funeral, but find them gone to church. However I into the church (which is a faire large church and a great chapel) and there heard the service, and staid till they buried him, and then out. And there met with Sir W. Coventry (who was there out of great generosity, and no person of quality there but he) and went with him into his coach, and being in it with him there happened this extraordinary case,-one of the most romantique that ever I heard of in my life, and could not have believed, but that I did see it; which was this:-About a dozen able, lusty, proper men come to the coach-side with tears in their eyes, and one of them that spoke for the rest begun and said to Sir W. Coventry, We are here a dozen of us, that have long known and loved, and served our dead commander, Sir Christopher Mings, and have now done the last office of laying him in the ground. We would be glad we had any other to offer after him, and in revenge of him. All we have is our lives; if you will please to get his Royal Highness to give us a fire-ship among us all, here are a dozen of us, out of all which choose you one to be commander, and the rest of us, whoever he is, will serve him; and, if possible, do that which shall show our memory of our dead commander, and our revenge.' Sir W. Coventry was herewith much moved (as well as I, who could hardly abstain from-weeping) and took their names, and so parted; telling me that he would move his Royal Highness as in a thing very extraordinary. The truth is, Sir Christopher Mings was a very stout man, and a man of great parts, and most excellent tongue among ordinary men; and, as Sir W. Coventry says, could have been the most useful man at such a pinch of time as this. He was come into great renowne here at home, and more abroad in the West Indys. He had brought his family into a way of being great; but dying at this time, his memory and name (his father being always and at this day a shoemaker, and his mother a hoyman's daughter, of which he was used frequently to boast) will be quite forgot in a few months, as if he had never been, nor any of his name be the better by it; he having not had time to will any estate, but is dead poor rather than rich."

Biographical Notices.

THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

Or OWEN ROBERTS, MARINER,

4 native of Anglesey, North Wales, now residing at No. 24, Chapel-street, Liverpool, who has been upwards of forty voyages to sea, sixteen of which have been to the Coast of Africa.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

We have frequently been solicited to lay before the public the following narrative, in the hope that it may be the means of "smoothing the pillow" of an old weather. beaten sailor, in his declining years. We shall give the story verbatim et literate, in the words of the author, as Roberts is now in the 87th year of his age, is totally blind, the work of revision would be no very light task. Owen and led about by his wife, nearly as aged as himself. She pays the most praiseworthy attention to her husband; and they are a very interesting couple.

In the year 1758 I made my first voyage, which was to the coast of Africa, in the ship Prince Henry, commanded by Captain Chaffers, when we sold our slaves at Barbadoes, and took in a cargo for London, where we arrived the day that George II. died. My second voyage was in the above vessel; at which time we lay so long on the coast, in con

sequence of a dispute betwixt the traders and the captain' that we were almost starved to death for want of provisions, and a great many of our crew died. On the middle passage we fell in with a Spanish galleon, laden with money from South America, which we engaged; but in the action one of our guns burst, and disabled so many of our men, amongst whom was the chief mate, that she, seeing the confusion we were in by the accident, got her tacks aboard and made her escape. We sold our slaves at Point-a-Petre, in the Grand Tier. The river Sall parts the above place and Guadaloupe.

I went next in a sugar drogger, called the Mary Ann, Captain Rimmer, and was at several islands. After that I sailed with that brave commander, Captain Bartley, a privateering, on board the Charming Jenny, out of Bridge Town, Barbadoes.

My next voyage was in the Benga, Captain Glover, from Barbadoes to Philadelphia. I left her at the latter place, and engaged myself as captain of a shallop, that sailed up and down the Delaware; her name was George the Third.

The next ship I went on board was the Hannah, Henry Stiles, commander, bound to Madeira. After leaving the Hannah, I sailed in the Sally, Captain William Taylor; a chartered vessel, bound to the Senegal, from thence to Portsmouth, from Portsmouth to Senegal again, and sold the ship there.

I then went on board the General Ward, Benjamin Doley, commander, laden with slaves. We sold our slaves at Dominica, and sailed from thence to London, and from London I came to Liverpool. I then went in the ship John, Jacob Nelson, commander, bound to Kingston, Jamaica; from thence back to Liverpool. I sailed next in the Susannah, Captain Alexander Witherspoon, to Potomac River, Virginia, and came again to Liverpool.

We

I sailed next in the Africa, Captain John Tittle, bound to the coast of Africa for slaves. While on the coast, we slaved several vessels by contract, besides our own. sold our slaves at Grenada. On our homeward-bound passage, in about five days before we made Cape Clear, we had the misfortune to carry our main and mizen mast overboard, when I and five more men, who where close reefing the main-topsail, were thrown overboard, and three poor souls lost their lives; at last, with great difficulty, we got the ship safe to Liverpool.

The next ship was the Hilary, Captain Thomas Bragg, bound to Kingston, Jamaica; at which place I left her, and entered on board his Majesty's ship Achilles, of 64 guns, commanded by Captain Collins. We cruised in the West Indies for thirteen months, and then returned to Portsmouth. I was then discharged from her, and went up to London, where I shipped myself on board the Susannah, for the Mediterranean, with a pass for two years.

The first places we touched at were Ancona and Trieste, in the Gulph of Venice, from thence we sailed past the burning mountain, having on board a cargo for Constantinople. We passed the upper castle on the right hand, where old Troy stood, which stood a memorable siege of twenty-four years. The entrance of the Dardanelles is guarded by great fortifications on both right and left, and the current always runs about two and a half knots an hour, downwards, from the Black Sea. The grand Seignior's palace is on the left hand going into Constantinople harbour, and the Gulph of the Black Sea on the right. In this country I traded near two years.

I have seen where the brazen man stood, which was so large that ships passed between his legs; this celebrated wonder of the world was blown down in a great storm. I was also at Alexandria, in Egypt, about seventy miles from Grand Cairo, at which place I saw an Egyptian who had a serpent which followed him like a dog, and played and fondled with him, without attempting either to sting or bite him.

While we were at Alexandria, three of us, in a drunken frolic, hired an ass to carry us to Pompey's Pillar. We had not proceeded far before we lost ourselves on the sands, but at last we met some of the natives, and I understanding a little of their language, inquired the road; with great difficulty we found it. The pillar is built upon the sea shore, at the place where Pompey, the great Roman conmurdered the moment he landed, in sight of his wife, who queror, landed, after he had been defeated by Caesar; Pompey flying into Egypt for protection, was instantly escaped. The pillar is one piece of marble, of a surprising height, and very beautiful. I measured the base of it, which is four yards round, and I cut some marks on it with my penknife, in remembrance of my having been there.

After I had served my term of two years, I left the Susannah, and returned to England in the ship Levant, Captain Barfort.

[To be continued.]

Poetry.

THE BLOODY VEST. From "Tales of the Crusaders."

'Twas near the fair city of Benevent,
When the sun was setting on bough and bent,
And knights were preparing in bower and tent,
On the eve of the Baptist's tournament;
When in Lincoln green a stripling gent,
Well seeming a page by a princess sent,
Wander'd the camp, and, still, as he went,
Inquired for the Englishman, Thomas a Kent.
Far bath he fared, and farther must fare,

Till he finds his pavilion nor stately nor rare,-
Little, save iron and stee', was there;

And, as lacking the coin to pay armourer's care,
With his sinewy arms to his shoulders bare,
The good knight with hammer and file did repair
The mail that to-morrow must see him wear,
For the honour of St. John and his lady fair.

"Thus speaks my lady," the page said he,
And the knight bent lowly both head and knee,
"She is Benevent's princess so high in degree,
And thou art as lowly as knight may well be-
He that would climb so lofty a tree,

Or spring such a gulf as divides her from thee,
Must dare some high deed, by which all men may see
His ambition is back'd by high chivalrie.

"Therefore thus speaks my lady," the fair page he said,
And the knight lowly louted with hand and with head,
"Fling aside the good armour in which thou art clad,
And don thou this weed of her night-gear instead,
For a hauberk of steel, a kirtle of thread;
And charge, thus attired, in the tournament dread,
And fight as thy wont is where most blood is shed,
And bring honour away, or remain with the dead."
Untroubled in his look, and untroubled in his breast,
The knight the weed hath taken, and reverently hath kiss'd;
"Now blessed be the moment, the messenger be blest!
Much honour do I hold me in my lady's high behest;
And say unto my lady in this dear night-weed dress'd,
To the firmest armed champion I will not vail my crest,
But if I live and bear me well 'tis her turn to take the test."

"I restore, says my master, the garment I've worn.
And I claim of the Princess to don it in turn;

For its stains and its rents she should prize it the more,
Since by shame 'tis unsullied, though crimson'd with gore.''
Then deep blush'd the Princess-yet kiss'd she and press'd
The blood-spotted robe to her lips and her breast.
"Go tell my true knight, church and chamber shall show
If I value the blood on this garment or no."

And when it was time for the nobles to pass
In solemn procession to minster and mass,
The first walk'd the Princess in purple and pall,
But the blood-besmear'd night-robe she wore over all;
And eke, in the hall, where they all sat at dine,
When she knelt to her father and proffer'd the wine,
Over all her rich robes and state jewels, she wore
That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.

Then lords whisper'd ladies, as well you may think,
And ladies replied with nod, titter, and wink;

And the Prince, who in anger and shame had look'd down,
Turn'd at length to his daughter, and spoke with a frown;
"Now since thou hast publish'd thy folly and guilt,
E'en atone with thy hand for the blood thou hast spilt;
Yet sore for your boldness you both will repent,
When you wander as exiles from fair Benevent."
Then out spoke stout Thomas, in hall where he stood,
Exhausted and feeble, but dauntless of mood:
"The blood that I lost for this daughter of thine,

I pour'd forth as freely as flask gives its wine;
And if for my sake she brooks penance and blame,
Do not doubt I will save her from suffering and shame;
And light will she reck of thy princedom and rent,
When I hail her, in England, the Countess of Kent."

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The examination of Messrs. Sorley and Son's School,

Here, gentles, ends the foremost fytte of the Lay of the Bloody 46, Mount-pleasant, by the Rev. Andrew Wilson, Rev.

Vest.

FYTTE SECOND.

The Baptist's fair morrow beheld gallant feats-
There was winning of honours, and losing of seats-
There was hewing with falchions, and splintering of staves,
The victors won glory, the vanquish'd won graves.
O, many a knight there fought bravely and well,

Yet one was accounted his peers to excel,
And 'twas he whose sole armour on body and breast,
Seem'd the weed of a damsel when boune for her rest.
There were some dealt him wounds that were bloody and sore,
But others respected his plight and forbore.
"It is some oath of honour," they said," and I trow
'Twere unknightly to slay him achieving his vow."
Then the Prince, for his sake, bade the tournament cease,
He flung down his warder, the trumpets sung peace;
And the judges declare, and competitors yield,
That the Knight of the Night-gear was first in the field.
The feast it was nigh, and the mass it was nigher,
When before the fair Princess low louted a squire,
And delivered a garment unseemly to view,

With sword-cut and spear-thrust, all hack'd and piere'd thro':
All rent and all tattered, all clotted with blood,
With foam of the horses, with dust, and with mud:
Not the point of that lady's small finger, I ween,
Could have rested on spot was unsullied and clean.
"This token my master, Sir Thomas a Kent,
Restores to the Princess of fair Benevent;

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit;
Through life's utmost peril the prize I have won,
And now must the faith of my mistress be shown;
For she who prompts knights on such danger to run,
Must avouch his true service in front of the sun.

Hugh Ralph, &c. took place last week, and to the state of which they bore the following testimony:

"It is with much pleasure we have to state the strong impression which was made upon our minds by the admirable way in which the pupils of Mr. Sorley and Son acquitted themselves at the annual examination on Wednesday last. It has always appeared to us as a self-evident truth, that the system of education adopted in a school or academy is valuable only in so far as it is instrumental in educing and strengthening the latent energies of the human mind; and that nothing can be more detrimental to youth than the cultivation of the memory at the expense of the other faculties. We were extremely gratified to perceive that this truth had been kept distinctly in view in the method of tuition adopted by Mr. Sorley and Son; and that, in the examination of their pupils, we had the pleasure of witnessing, not a mere exhibition of the strength of memory, but, what is infinitely more interesting, the play of the mental faculties, the growth of intelligence, and a distinguished proficiency in those branches of knowledge which qualify men to act the part of wise and good citizens. (Signed)

"ANDREW WILSON, one of the Ministers of the Scotch Church, Rodney-street.

"HUGH RALPH, Minister of the Scotch Church, Oldham-
street.

"JAMES LISTER, Minister of Lime-street Chapel.
"ALEX. HANNAY, M. D.

"Liverpool, June 28, 1825."

The following young gentlemen obtained prizes for their proficiency in the various branches taught at the academy: -Masters Sidney S. Sherlock, Chas. Stewart, Saml. Bennion, Henry C. Booth, Edward Humble, James Gladstone, Edward H. Roscoe, Harold H. Sherlock, Frederick Kenney, Edw. Danson, George Deane, Richard Watts.See adv.

White Swallore.-We have this moment before us a beautiful snow-white swallow, which was shot at Woolton, a few days ago. It is to be immediately stuffed; and we hope it will be ultimately deposited in the Museum of the Liverpool Royal Institution."

The deception of the water represented in the Panorama of the City and Bay of Naples (now exhibiting in the Ro tunda, near the New Market) is so excellent, that frequently whimsical mistakes occur. A gentleman assures us that the other day a numerous party were gazing at that part of the painting where some of the lazzaroni are represented diving for sea-weed, &c. ; one of them is coming up, pulling some into a floating-basket, and an. other is supposed to have just dived, the water is agitated, and his basket left floating. Some of the ladies were leaving, when one of the party, deceived by the apparent reality of the scene, exclaimed, "Stop for a minute, till this man comes up again." Others have frequently asserted that the vessels have altered their position, &c.

The Beauties of Chess.

"Ludimus effigiem belli"............ VIDA.

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If the black castle covered the check at A 7, the white queen would checkmate at A 7.

+ If the black king moved to A 8, the white knight would move to C 6, C 8, or B 5, and, by opening upon the black king the check of the white queen, give checkmate.

If either of the black castles covered the check at C 7, the white knight would checkmate at C 6.

If the black castle took the knight, the white queen would checkmate at B 7.

If the black castle covered the check at C 7, the white pawn, becoming a queen, would checkmate at D 8.

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