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tion of Walkingame, and we shall, therefore, conclude this article, with two of the new questions as a specimen :—

"Water runs into a cistern by three different pipes, and is drawn out again by two pumps. By the first pipe the cistern is filled in eight hours; by the first and second pipes together, in five hours; and when all the pipes are open it is filled in three hours. Now the first pump empties the cistern in an hour, and the second in seventy-three minutes. The question is, if both pumps begin to work when the cistern is full, in what time will they empty it, provided the second and third pipes keep running?

There are two meadows of equal extent, the one in the form of a square 1360 links of Gunter's chain on a side, and the other in the form of a parallelogram 800 links in breadth. Required, the length of the parallelogram, and the aggregate content of both meadows in acres and roods?"

Let Mr. Smith now state, and our columns are open to him, what we were authorised to conclude under such circumstances.-ED.

Foreign Literature.

Account of the Voyage of Discovery and Circumnavigation performed in 1818, 1819, and 1820.

(Concluded from p. 50.) Having sailed from Rawak on the 5th of January, 1919, the Urania stretched towards the Ayon isles, which they saw on the 6th and 8th of the

A new island, surrounded by dangerous reefs, was discovered to the east of Tonga, which M. de Freycinet named Rose Island.

M. de Freycinet appears to have By taking this track, the position of collected, respecting the people of the the dangerous isles of Byron was rectiMarianne Islands, information more fied, as well as that of the island of extensive than that with which preced- Pyletant, the most southerly of the ing voyagers have enriched their ac- Friendly Islands; and also that of counts. specting their manners, language, and He gives various details re- Howe Island. laws, as well as that singular government of which much has been said, and in which the women act an important part. He communicates to us interest- The Urania anchored in Port Jacking notions respecting the arts which son on the 18th of November, 1819; they practise, respecting their money, she remained there till the 25th of Dewhich is established on principles ab-cember, and this interval was employsolutely different from ours, and re-ed, as at all the preceding stoppages, specting their architecture, of which he in scientific inquiries. M. de Freycistill saw numerous ruins at Tinian. net speaks, in this respect, with gratitude for the assistance afforded to him by Mr. Macquarie, the governor of the colony.

Two months were employed in making these researches; and at the same time they were occupied with those observations and experiments which form- On quitting Port Jackson, the course ed the principal object of the expedi- of the corvette was shaped to pass betion. M. de Medinillo had, during all tween Van Diemen's Land and New this time, the kindness to provide the Zealand. On the 7th of January, corvette abundantly with fresh provi-1820, the southern extremity of the latsions, to which he added provisions for ter islands was doubled in sight of the voyage, and for which he afterwards Campbell's Island. refused to accept any reimbursement.

The course of the Urania, from Guam to the Sandwich Islands, presents nothing remarkable. On the 5th of August, 1819, she made the is land of Owhy hee, and anchored in the bay of Harahona in three days after.

From that moment until nearing the coast of Terra del Fuego, the winds were constantly favourable. The Urania reached 59 degrees of south latitude; and she found floating ice in the 54th degree.

On the 5th of February the coast of Tamahama, king of the Sandwich Terra del Fuego was seen in the neighIsles, was dead; his palace had been bourhood of Cape Desolation; the seareduced to ashes, and almost all the son was as frightful as the adjoining hogs on the island had been slaughter-shores. In the impossibility of reach ed on account of his obsequies, according Christmas Harbour, it became neThe dysentery continued still to tor-ing to the custom of the country;cessary to make for the Bay of Good

same month.

ment the crew; it was not long before it was joined to fevers; one of the first victims of which was M. Labiche, the second lieutenant, an officer full of merit, and of the most amiable character. This was the second loss of the kind during the voyage, and it was keenly

felt.

After having visited several of the Caroline isles, which are not pointed out on the maps, and having received throughout the most flattering reception from the islanders, M. de Freycinet arrived, on the 17th of May, in sight of the Isle of Guam, and cast anchor on the night of the same day in the roadstead of Humata. This delay, and that which the corvette made at Port San Louis in the same island, restored health to the crew; thanks to the generous eagerness with which the governor, Don Jose de Medinillo y Pineda, anticipated all the wants of the expedition, by procuring them refreshments and comforts of all kinds.

which was a real disappointment in the
re-victualling of the corvette.

Success, in the Straits of Lemaire; but hardly had the anchor dropped, Uno Rio, the eldest son and succes, when a furious storm began to cause sor of Tamahama, enjoyed at that time the corvette to drive: there was not a but a badly-established authority. The moment to be lost in cutting the cable, chiefs compelled to submit to the arms and setting sail with all speed, in or of his father, raising extraordinary pre-der to get out of the Bay, by skirting tensions, caused him to dread an ap- at a very short distance the rocks and proaching war. He came with his breakers which lie upon its north point. wives and a numerous suite on board This dreadful tempest lasted for two the Urania, on the occasion of the bap- days, and made the corvette drift contism of one of the principal chiefs of siderably to the northward; which dethe island. That ceremony was per-termined M. de Freycinet to bear up formed with much pomp by the Abbé Quelin, chaplain of the vessel.

for the Falkland Islands, in sight of which they arrived on the 14th of FeThe Sandwich Islands were, like the bruary, according to their reckoning, Marianne, the object of the assiduous but the 13th according to European researches of M. de Freycinet and of time, they having gained a day in cirthe officers under his command. Nu-cumnavigating the globe.* merous observations were made in * Our readers are already acquainted with search of the magnetic equator, and its inflexions, in the Great Ocean.

On the 30th of August the Urania sailed for Port Jackson, passing through the islands of the Austral Polynesia.

the loss of the Urania, in consequence of striking on a sunken rock, at the entrance of French Bay, in the Falkland Islands, and of their bebrought first to Rio Janeiro, and afterwards to ing taken off by an American whaler, and Havre de Grace, where they arrived in safety,

In expectation that more detailed accounts (proceeds the narrative) will make kuown all the importance of their labours, it will suffice to give a rapid glance at them.

7th. The barometrical variations |ing from our places of public worship, could not be observed with precision, in his second essay on the Fine Arts*. except in the places which they touched at. The results of them have been consigned to a particular register.

8th. It was not possible to observe the tides and currents, except at a small number of points; but the data acquired at Rio Janeiro, at the isle of France, at Rawak, and at Guam, are not without interest.

1st. The observations on the pendulum, which formed one of the principal objects of the voyage, have been made with the greatest care at every place where they stopped, and in every situation throughout the voyage which would 9th. The number of charts formed permit. The stations where these experiments were made are nine in num- during the voyage is about thirty. A ber, viz. Rio Janeiro (first stay); the part of them have already been comCape of Good Hope; Port Louis, in pleted; but the whole of the materials the Isle of France; the Island of Ra-collected on this subject, and classed wak; the Island Guam; the Island of with great care, will give every facility Mowa, in the Sandwich Isles; Port desirable for carrying on this work. Jackson; the Falkland Islands; and at Rio Janeiro (second stay).

2d. Each day during the voyage, two officers, at least, took by rotation the necessary astronomical observations to ascertain the situation of the vessel at sea, and, on shore, the positions of the different observatories; to regulate the chronometers, &c. All these observations have been transcribed into journals destined for that purpose.

10th. Notwithstanding the shipwreck at the Malouin or Falkland Islands, which caused the loss of eighteen cases of specimens of natural history, there remain still about forty. These contain a great number of specimens out of the three kingdoms of nature; and especially almost the whole of those which were collected at the Marianne Islands, yet little known in that respect to natnralists.

You may be assured, Mr. Editor, that Tyro as I am, I have not the arrogance to advance my opinions as perfectly just; but am induced rather to state my sentiments, to the end of having my scruples removed, together with the clouds of ignorance and prejudice that may overshadow my intellectual faculties.

Now, I confess I am not only an admirer of the Fine Arts, but would consider it an honour to be in any way instrumental in supporting and encouraging them. However, I deem it a mystery how painting could ever afford support to piety or devotion, aud I much doubt if the sensations or sentiments produced from contemplating the best executed or happiest conceived painting, are either those of piety or devotion, such as are inculcated in the holy Scriptures.

Long may the arts flourish, and long may painting be our national boast, -numerous may the shrines be that are devoted to it, and numerous its devotees; but may the pure spirit of devo11th. The number of drawings tion and piety be ever instilled and made during the voyage amounts to firmly fixed in the heart of every Briseveral hundreds; the greater part ad- ton, from the contemplation of the inmirable for the beauty of the situati-spired word of God, and the boundons which they represent, or for the less productions of nature; and may correctness of the portraits, and the music ever lend her aid to raise the soul in ecstacy to anticipate the joys graces of their composition. of heaven!

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3d. The magnetic phenomena were at the same time the object of constant and multiplied studies, as well at sea as in all the places which they touched at. They comprise observations on the magnetic declination and inclination; on the intensity of both when tried by the horizontal needle, or the needle of 12th. In short, the observation's on inclination; and also on the hourly and the manners and customs of the periodical variations in the declination. ple whom they visited, have been col4th. Comparative observations on lected in very great number by all the the temperature of the air, with that of officers employed in the expedition. the sea at its surface, were made every All of them have been drawn up in two hours during the whole course of the the same spirit, and after the same voyage. This considerable mass of re-plan, in order that they may connect sults may be useful to determine the themselves easily with the general acisothermic lines on the terrestrial globe. count of the voyage. 5th. More than sixty specimens of sea-water, taken in the seas which they traversed, were put into as many flasks, perfectly sealed up, in order to be analysed on their return. Each flask was labelled with the latitude and longitude of the spot where the water was drawn. 6th. A meteorological journal kept

It is above all to be remarked, that this is the first expedition of the kind, in which all the scientific operations have been performed entirely by officers attached to the service of the Royal Marine of France.-Phil. Mag.

It is much to be feared, that having in our view objects so capable of arresting our attention and exciting our admiration as the finely executed paintings of our great professors, would rather interfere with the proper discharge of our devotional duties, if not greatly endanger us, by inducing us imper ceptibly to pay greater adoration to the works of the creature, than worshipping the creator.

Principiis obsta' is a motto we should do well to bear in mind at all times. Who knows but that, at last, the mists of our natural prejudices may be so far cleared away, and we become so refined in our sentiments of

every hour during the whole voyage,Original Communications. devotion, that Mr. W. H. Parry may

will show in methodical order all the observations on the thermometer, the barometer, and the hydrometer, which they made both by sea and land. They will also show the indications of the prevailing winds, and their degrees of force, the electrical and aërial phænomena, &c.

with most of the collections made during the voyage. See Literary Chronicle, No. 64.

ON PAINTINGS IN CHURCHES.
To the Editor of the Literary Chronicle.

SIR,-Sorry am I to enter my pro-
test against the sentiments of a person of
so great and noble mental endowments
as your able and elegant essayist, W. H.
Parry, wher. I find him deploring the
banishment of the ornaments of paint-

deem it expedient to suggest the propriety of introducing scenic apostolic representations, and scriptural enactments, at the shrine and altar of our temples, by some of the theatrical characters, whom he has criticised with such keen discrimination, as most congenial with the taste of refined religi ou; while our priesthood shall fly ex

* Literary Chronicle, No. 90.

communicated from the desk and the palpit.

It would afford me great satisfaction to see the subject discussed and elucidated by some of your enlightened readers, who may be more competent than, Sir,

Your constant reader Narbeth, Feb. 5, 1821. E. PRICE,

HAPPINESS DEPENDENT ON

OURSELVES.

struction must strike every one capa-
ble of reflection with admiration, but
to the philanthropist or to the intelli-
gent and benevolent practical anato-
mist, I leave it to be deservedly eulo-
gized, and pass to the position, that
with the general use and physical pro-
perties of the body all are sufficiently
acquainted to acknowledge, that it is
capable of a state of composure, hap-
piness, sorrow, and wretchedness. My
opinion being that these sensations,
though resulting from the mind, a me-
taphysical essence, are still generally
subject to our own control, and I shall
attempt to shew that the assumption is
not totally without foundation.

To the Editor of the Literary Chronicle.
SIR.-The writer who desires to be
popular will avoid touching upon any
subject which the many' seldom take
into consideration, but he who writes
Sensation is the proof of existence,
from principle will find pleasure in ob-
taining the attention of an intelligentation, or feeling, I have never seen fa-
and the complicated phenomena of sen-
circle, whether they approve or con-
demn his theory. The admirable spi-
rit in which your paper is conduct-
ed, induces me to offer my humble are five; their existence is admitted,
assistance to diversify its columns, and,
and little more, in general, is thought
believe me, should this effort prove the immediate effect of our state of
upon the subject. Are not these senses
worthy of acceptance, I shall feel pecu-existence? Some possess them all in
liar pleasure in its being placed on re-
cord in the Literary Chronicle.

re

miliarly or sufficiently explained. Of

the external senses, we are told, there

ture.

sation.

upon reflection he will condemn himself, and his suffering will be in proportion to his internal sensibility.

That the laws of nature compel a man to action cannot be denied, and so far as he is compelled, he cannot severely condemn himself; but the principal actions of life, which result from the imagination, are not acts of necessity, consequently matters choice, and these chiefly affect his state of being whether comfortable or otherwise; hence I conclude that a man's happiness or misery depends princiI am, &c. pally upon himself.

Feb. 10, 1820.

D. G.

Original Criticisms

ON

of

The Principal Performers of the Theatres
Royal Drury Lane & Covent Garden.

No. XI.-MRS. EGERTON.
Passions like chaos in confusion lie;
Fix'd in one frame of features, glare of eye,
Her voice no touch of harmony admits,

Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.'

CHURCHILL.

a very acute degree: see better, hear A theologian of some celebrity+ de- quicker, feel sooner, taste more exqui- AMONG the many various changes scribes man to be made up of three sitely, and scent more immediately than which are constantly taking place in essences: the substantial or physical; persons in general; and, that these are our great city, those in theatric life are the internal, or moral or metaphysical; all, more or less, under the control of not the least wonderful. For instance, and the immortal; and adds, in illus- the judgment, must beallowed, though who would imagine that Mrs. Egerton, tration, that you may destroy the body still subject to the general laws of na- the inimitable representative of Meg in lingering tortures, yet, while life The senses thus spoken of are Merrilies, &c. was in the habit of enactmains, the moral or internal man may admitted to be the outward senses, but ing, eight or ten years since, the tender continue not only uninjured but rise to still they form only one branch of sen-love-sick Juliet, and other characters its highest point of excellence; and By the light of the mind, of a similar nature. This lady partithat, although the internal properties which is the essence of life, and the cularly excels in depicting the fierce, naturally die with the body which they stood by the light which is obtained voice, which was once soft and melocause of which life is not to be under- the majestic, and the malignant. Her bave directed, the immortal spirit refrom it, the internal senses may be dis- dious, has now acquired considerable mains, and will for ever remain, indestructible. These outlines I consider covered: a sense of feeling, a will, me- force and power; indeed, her whole sufficiently clear to be generally admit-mory, imagination, and judgment. appearance is well adapted for those ted, but to the inquiring nind not suf- When man is perfect in his kind, he vigorous and commanding characters ficiently minute; they give no idea of has all these inward and outward senses which she has of late years assumed. man's means of action, they develop in perfection-a circumstance of rare Her Helen Macgregor, calling forth none of the causes which prompt him occurrence. This being the constitution almost masculine powers, and affording to pursue a particular course, nor do of man, every event may be referred to so much scope for the contemptuous they define any thing but that which these qualities. By means of the judg- disdain of a haughty spirit, is an adthe practice and habits of mankind ment, aided by the experience of me- mirable performance, though, we think, seem to admit. In attempting to go mory, a man has reason; by the exer- she finds a powerful rival in Mrs. Faufarther, I am not without hope that the cise of this reason, he discovers his own cit, whose representation is entitled to subject may excite inore able pens to worth or worthlessness, his consistency the warmest possible eulogy.- Her lay open the constraction of the hu- or inconsistency; and this forms con- Madge Wildfire possesses considerable science; and the light of the mind be- merits; her dying scene is particularly man frame, so that man may at length know himself. Our wonderful coning ever operative when the body is excellent, but in this character she is awake, man is of necessity compelled certainly far surpassed by Miss CopeWe coufess that we differ much in opini- to see his own actions. The imagina- land. Mrs. Egerton is much too old, on from our respected correspondent; and have always regretted that the plan suggested tion or inventive quality may be consi- nor does her voice possess that sweetness by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. West, for adorn-dered as the cause of his happiness or which the wild yet plaintive airs of the ing the iuterior of our temples with appropriate inisery, for if it prompt his will to de- heart-broken Madge require. But paintings, was not carried into effect.-ED. cree in opposition to his memory and whatever admiration her performance judgment, i. e. his reason, to which he of these characters may elicit, she cer is often induced by external sensation,tainly far surpasses those exertions in

↑ I avoid giving his name-in all argumenta

tive pieces, argument should have weight, not

names.

tions which neither reflect credit on
herself or the theatre.

No. XII.-MRS. GLOVER.
'Her faults in her seem what she cannot change,
Than what she chooses.'-SHAKESPEARE.

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Original Poetry.

EPIGRAM

hearing that Miss Dance is expected to ap
pear in Tragedy at Covent Garden.
THERE's nothing novel in this age
To see a dance upon the stage;
But 'twill, indeed, be novelty
To see a Dance in tragedy!

her exquisite delineation of Meg Merri-ly the pain of witnessing representa- the best representative of the day. She lies. Here she possesses no equal; inimparts wonderful effect to the few passages of Emelia, nor will we forget deed, her judicious action, her comthe force she gives to the repulsive dismanding figure and powerful voice, gusting character of Goneril, or her place her far above all her competitors. excellence in the haughty Tullia. On We can conceive nothing of its kind her performance of Queen Margaret, finer than her attitude, when, standing in Richard III. we can bestow almost on an eminence, she beholds Hatteraick and his party about to attack Henry Malgré her unwieldly person, we con- unqualified praises. There are, per Bertram; when she waves her hand to fess we cannot but experience a great haps, few things finer or more affecting the gipsies, they really appear to shrink degree of pleasure in witnessing Mrs. than the scene in which she takes leave from her as something super-human; Glover's performances. In exhibiting of her children, when they are torn her sudden exclamation, and what cool contemptuous defiance, as in Es-from her by the mandate of the tyrant; d'ye fear from her,' on finding Glossin tifania, for instance, or downright vi- it is only to be excelled by her lamenand Hatteraick conversing about her, rulence or anger, affecting coolness, as tation after their murder, or the keen has its due effect; but her masterpiece in Mrs. Oakley, her features can as- and cutting irony with which she answers Gloster's interrogatories. Mrs. is the mingled look of rage, exultation, sume a vixen-like expression that acand convulsive agony, which she casts cords admirably with the character she Glover's figure is now much too large on the smuggler in her dying moments; is representing. Indeed, we have no and matronly to represent youthful it is indeed the acmé of melodramatic actress any way equal to her in either of characters or passions. We trust that, perfection. But if Mrs. Egerton is these parts. We think her Estifania for the future, she will relinquish such once put out of this peculiar line, like will never be surpassed; her easy and characters, as Donna Violante, Flora, some other of our principal performers, unrivalled assurance chills even the in the Midnight Hour,' Mrs. Racket, her conception has no boldness of fancy, impudence of the Copper Captain.- &c. &c. which are neither suited to her W. H. PARRY, no prominence, no variety; she cannot She makes the character the most age or abilities. express more than simple passions; her amusing Jezebel that ever trod the grief is a monotonous incessant whine, stage; she positively leads her husband and her dignity is comprised in a lofty up and down by the nose, cheats, and toss of the head, and a sudden elevation fairly laughs at him to his face, and of the voice. We know but of one actually convinces him that he has been On character in tragedy which she plays fooled for his own good. Were Cooke finely; we allude to Elvira; she pour- himself to rise from the grave, he could trays this part in all the fierce carica- not abuse his enemy with more bitter ture of the original. Regan is a cha- contemptuous sarcasm, than Mrs. Gloracter which can never be rendered ef- ver rails at my Mahound cousin.'fective on the stage, but through the Never were the advantages of impuexcellence of its representative; Mrs. dence so happily pourtrayed. Second Egerton, however, contrives to look, only to her excellence in this character, dress, and act the character more like is her inimitable representation of the a waiting woman, than the proud, vin- jealousy and hysteric violence of Mrs. dictive, unnatural daughter of old Lear. Oakley; our attention is kept intensely Her performance of Laura, in the tra- alive by the airs she gives herself, and gedy of Montalto, did not please us; her fantastic behaviour in the situations there was much scope for good acting, in which she is placed. She makes an particularly in the concluding scenes; admirable Mrs. Candour; so excelher despair, on finding her ambitious lently does she manage her voice and designs blighted, as well as her subse-countenance, that her scandal carries quent remorse, might have afforded an complete conviction to all around her. ample field for a display of genius, Her humour is admirably adapted for but Mrs. Egerton was seized with a fit this affectation of truth, and is of that of indolent languor, and gave us no- dry nature, which a casual observer thing but a caricature of Meg Mer- would naturally mistake for seriousness. rilies in its worst form. In the Coun- Although she is rather too embonpoint, fascination tess de Morville, in the new melodrame she contrives to give every of 'Thérèse,' she has a trifling charac- and blandishment to the execrable ter, and plays it as badly as possible. Millwood; perhaps its only fault is a This lady is certainly a very limited ac- too strict resemblance to nature. We tress; in comedy she completely fails: have, in a former number, observed, indeed, we are astonished why she so that all our actresses completely fail in often appears before us in such parts as Lady Macbeth; we shall, therefore, Miss Vortex, Mrs. Changeable, Clarin- without expatiating more fully on Mrs. da, &c. We delight to see her in her Glover's performance of the character, these performances can necessarily oc- however short she may fall of Siddonial wild and fanciful characters, but as content ourselves with observing, that, cur but seldom, we have too frequent-excellence or grandeur, she is decidedly

TOBIT.

THE FASHIONABLE MISSES.
"I make the cap but not the head to wear it!
Q. IN THE CORNER.
AN EPISTLE TO.

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You say I've not written-you know not how

long

Tho' I once was so partial to prosing,

Either sonnet, epistle, or little love song

blest

That my muse and myself have been dozing. But were I to tell you what sights I have seen, How much in gay circles I lately have been,— Among charming ladies, who deem themselves If the world can but see them fantastic'ly drest; In feathers and furbelows, flounces and laceNeglecting the mind to embellish the faceYou'd forgive me, and say, that I'd plenty to do, And excuse me for not having written to you. You know Mr. G? he's as honest a man

As e'er got a fortune by prosperous trade; Well, his daughters-sweet creatures!-would

die if a man

(Unless in fine clothes he an overture made,) Were to give them a glance, and a kiss➡lack ah, me!

(From a tradesman) eternal perdition would be! Miss Susan is tall, and considered genteel

By those who have not in her company been; And some say her sister has got the best heel (Of her foot they say nothing)-that ever yes, mem,'-and-he, he,'-the chief Thus pair'd, they together with stateliness

With

was seen!

walk

of their talk,

If they meet with a neighbour that's willing to chat—

As they glance first on this side and then upon

that;

But if as they once were the person they

meet,

Who hails them with-how-d'-ye-do-in the

street

Be humble in life-what a stigma 't would be,
To be seen by the world in such low company.
When a party they give, not a tradesman is

there

name

shame ?

Dear creatures-to fancy esteem can be caught,
Like light on a mirror, by beauty alone;
That blaze of attraction, where delicate thought

On a brow of divinity raises her throne!
The world might a lesson these pretty ones'

teach

er praise, and exhibits great skill and sincerity of heart which she can so well worth, and as the story must be well Varney was very spirited, and her injudgment. This is the case with Kenil- express: her treatment of the miscreant known to all our readers, we shall not terview with the Queen in the garden detail it. We need only observe that at Kenilworth, in which the dread of the tale is closely followed during the exposing her husband so chastened her whole drama up to the catastrophe, in indignation at Varney, was admirably which Mr. Dibdin has ventured an al- performed. Bengough supported the teration, which is certainly an improve- dignity of England's proudest earl ;* ment. The piece opens with a scene and Fitzwilliam was quite at home in No weigher of sugar-no dresser of hair- at the Black Bear Inn, is thence trans- the double character of Lawrence No ladies who throw the steel bar to and fro-ferred to Tony Foster's house, and Goldthred, the cutting mercer of No gentleman married-for full well you know That both these sweet misses are dying to wed, the whole of the interesting incidents Abingdon,' and the coxcomb, NichoAnd care not how soon they by Hymen are led. relating to the Countess of Leicester, las Blount. Wyatt elicited much apIf vulgar mechanics were ever allow'd -her interviews with her lord, with plause in the braggadocio, Michael To mingle with fashion's immaculate crowd, his follower Varney, and Tressilian,- Lambourne; and Miss Copeland And they were, by chance, their professions to her escape from Cumnor, and her meet-played Janet Foster very prettily. The Oh! how would some people recover their ing with the Queen in the gardens of other characters were well sustained. Kenilworth, are given in the very lan- The dresses are quite appropriate, and guage of the romance. The adventures carry us back at once to the 'glorious Smith at Cumnor-at court, and at scenery is very excellent. The piece of Tressilian at the inn-with Wayland days of good Queen Bess;' and the Kenilworth, are introduced with the was received with immense applause, same fidelity. The reconciliation of and will, no doubt, long continue a faLeicester and Sussex, by the Queen,vourite. -her visit to Kenilworth, and her pro- ADELPHI THEATRE.-This house tection of the unfortunate Amy, are has also produced its Kenilworth, all retained in the drama. We now which is well got up and well played; come to the last scene, in which our and, what to the proprietors is of still readers will recollect, that the countess more importance-is well attended is, by the novelist, made to fall down a every night. trap-door designedly left open from her EAST LONDON THEATRE.-The apartment, into a dreadful abyss be- company of this house has lately relow. This scene in the drama is man-ceived a great acquisition in the peraged with great skill; there is a cu- son of a Mr. Serle, who is acting the riously constructed mechanical stair- prominent characters in the most po case, which ascends to the apartments pular of our standard tragedies. We of the countess; Varney, before he saw him on Monday evening in the lowers the trap-door, goes up to see if character of Romeo, and were really the countess is in her room. In the very much pleased with him. His permean time, Janet Foster gets the key, formance of the character was respecand winds down the trap-door, in order table throughout, and, in some scenes, to aid the countess in her escape. highly effective. Mrs. Payne's Juliet, Varney, unconscious of it, falls into the also, deserves a very favourable notice ; spare he had prepared for the countess, in the last scene, where she recovers and the Earl of Leicester, arriving at from her sleep, she surpassed any thing the moment, rescues his wife. we could expect to witness in a minor theatre.

(And acquirements are surely not out of their reach;)

That the mind should be shaped to perfection

before,

The mask of a moment they're bade to adore!
A butterfly's wing in its gay colours drest,
How beautiful, ere by the finger 'tis prest-

But stript of its fine painted feathers--how few
Would admire the gay thing as in sunshine it

few!

And she, who imagines that beauty-frail
thing!-

Will always attract, and never take wing-
That exquisite features affection will bind

Without the sweet charm of a well tutor'd

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SURREY THEATRE.-The popularity of the novels attributed to Sir Walter Scott, and the success of Mr. Dibdin in adapting them to the stage, attracted a very crowded and elegant audience to this theatre on Wednesday night, to witness the first representation of a new grand melodramatic historical romance, under the title of Kenilworth, or the Countess of Leicester,' founded on the so recently published romance of that name. When Mr. Dibdin produced his Heart of Mid Lothian, he modestly disclaimed every

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The piece, which is got up with great splendour, combines the whole strength of the Surrey company, and is extremely well acted. England's Maiden Queen' was admirably personified by Mrs. Dibdin, who looked and acted the character to the life. In her rebukes of the haughty Leicester, her jealousy, and the assertion of her power as Queen of England, she gave great effect. The villain Varney afforded Huntley an excellent opportunity of displaying his talents and judgother merit save that of an amanuensis; ment. Miss Taylor appeared to much but we think that a faithful condensa- advantage in the Countess of Leicestion of the story of the incidents of ter; the struggle between her affection three volumes into an acting drama of for her husband and her duty to her fathree hours, is entitled to a much high-ther, displayed all that tenderness and

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Deafness cured.-The Narrateur de la Meuse states that M. Delau, a doc tor of medicine, established at Mibiel, perforated with dexterity and success the meatus audiotrius on Mademoiselle Bivier, aged sixteen, and the Sieur Toussaint, aged twenty-eight, both till then deaf and dumb. The girl takes notice of the least sounds, and begins to articulate words. She is incessantly humming various airs. The young man hears as well as his comrades, and makes constant efforts to pronounce all

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