Have been so used to darkness, where thou'st
been..

Deep buried in the cave, that 'tis their light,
Not heaven's, that flashes and deceives thee!
You shrink again-what now?

Jul. Did'st thou not hear

The distant thunder?

Alf. Thou'rt deceiv'd again!

The warring tumult of the heavens has numb'd
Thy sense of hearing, and thou think'st that
The storm-like twilight lingers. Learn from

me,

That when the brain receives a ringing sound,
'Tis there secreted for a little space,

Then, like a bubble, bursts, and we believe.
The sound has twice saluted us.

Jul. Well, then,

I will forget my fears, and walk with thee,-
For I much love to wander up and down

Where curls the splashing wave upon the sand,
Clear as the pearl that's bursting from the rose,

When she her bosom bears to meet the day.
Look here what I have found?

Alf. A prettier shell

These eyes have never seen-these spots how

dark

But, oh! how pure the white ones are, my

sweet!

And even as this shell is, so art thou,
When fear or anger on thy brow looks dark:
Thou art as like the first, as sea to sky-

When summer basks, and not a breath is felt

Fine Arts.

Royal Academy opened on Monday last. The number of pieces in the exROYAL ACADEMY. hibition are 1165, being upwards of THERE is not, perhaps, any event in ninety more than last year. Of these, the reign of George the Third, more 1165 are paintings, (including, howcalculated to render it immortal, than ever, a few medallions,) and ninetythe establishment of the Royal Aca-three are sculptures. As in all former demy and the remarkable progress of exhibitions, and as will ever be the the fine arts in cousequence. A na-case, where opulence is so diffusive as tion,' says a modern writer, may be in England, portraits predominate. considered great by its achievements in We certainly are fond of historical arms or in commerce; but can never painting, and wish it was more encoube said to be truly polished, till it fos-raged, but we do not despise portraitters the polite arts, the acquisition of painting, which is another branch of which sinks every other pursuit in com-the art, and which has attained such parative insignificance. They open a excellence in England; of which the sixth sense upon every one who suc- splendid productions of a Reynolds cessfully cultivates them. The savage and a Lawrence bear most ample testieats his food and falls a-sleep; the mony. man of mere wealth does little more; As this is intended as the first of a but in those who seek pleasure in cul- series of articles on the exhibition, we tivating a taste for the fine arts, the shall only take a general view of it at pleasures of sense hold but a subordi-present, pointing out some of the most nate part.' prominent subjects, and reserving deBefore the Royal Academy was in-tailed critical remark to our future stituted, we had no native artists of ce-numbers.

Of power enough to shake the trem'lous aspin.lebrity either in painting or sculpture, We may observe, that nearly the

But when thou hast a smile upon thy lip,And oh! how lovely then those blushing cheeks

Those eyes that are like daggers to the heart,

That in their lustre slay-Oh! then thou dost
The white spots look most like, and make men
Forget their woes, dazzled at sight of thee!
Sigh for thy many charms and wonder how
So much of heaven is concentrate in one!
Jul. Nay, now you flatter me.

Alf. Trust me, Julia-no;

I am thy friend, and

Jul. Then 'tis a rhapsody.

Alf. I see that thou art merrily disposed,
And I am in a humour not to damp

The pleasure it doth give thee. O my life,
My earth's heaven-beautiful Julia! by Jove
I cannot, in my heat of soul, find words;
So powerless are they, that half express
The love I have for thee!-Without the sun
Would vegetation shrink before the blast,
And die as soon as born; and without thee-
Who art the nourisher of this weak plant-
Its brighter sun-should I, a desolate
Unhealthy thing-be like a rock, from whose
Bleak sides the hurricane has torn-tree, shrub,

And all that flourish'd there! You tremble
still-
Why clasp me thus ?

Jul. Behold yon cloud, that casts

Hogarth alone excepted in the former;
indeed, some writers had very gravely
asserted, that the English climate was
incapable of fostering or maturing ge-
nius; no sooner, however, was the pa-
tronage of the sovereign extended to
the fine arts, than a general feeling in
their favour pervaded the whole king-
dom every order of the state was
ready to encourage them; and the
impulse thus given, produced great
statesmen and great generals. When
we contemplate the wretched state of
the arts in England half a century ago,
and contrast it with the proud pre-emi-
nence they have now attained, we can-
not but feel an increased veneration for
a sovereign who, while he was the fa-
ther of his people, was the foster parent
of the fine arts.

We are well aware, that even the
Royal Academy is not without its ene-
mies; and that in this, as in all public
institutions, there may exist some
abuses. Some little favouritism, not

A death-like darkness o'er the ocean's breast-only in accepting, but also in dispos-
I fear the storm again is gathering there!

Alf. Fear not, my sweet, those clouds that

shift and pass Each other now-like wand'ring men, whose

ears

Have drank the honied sentences of one

whole of British artists at all distinguished for talents, are contributors; and many promising young artists are found in the list of contributors. The President of the Royal Academy, Sir Thomas Lawrence, has eight pictures, including portraits of the Marquis of Londonderry, the Princess Charlotte, Sir Humphrey Davy, and the late President of the Royal Academy. Those of the noble Marquis and the venerable President, are almost matchless productions, and though of large size, are finished with all the delicacy of miniatures.

Sir William Beechy has a delightful portrait of a lady, in the character of Una, and four other pictures, three of which are portraits. Wilkie has only two paintings, the Newspapers' and Guess my Name,' which, though not equal to some of his former productions, are still admirable. A. E. Chalon has six pictures; one of them, the portrait of a lady, is one of the most exquisite and lovely miniatures we ever witnessed. Fuseli has three paintings, on subjects well suited to his sombre but powerful pencil. The venerable Northcote has four pictures, two of which are historical. Gaudy has sent three pictures. Howard, four; tured artist, and the love of the arts Mulready, only one; Stothard, three; which it has generated, and continues and James Ward, three. Allan has to create and preserve, we must be se-only one, the Murder of Archbishop vere censors indeed, were we not to be to its faults a little blind.'

ing of the pictures, is known to have
been manifested. These, we confess,
are blemishes which we should wish to
see remedied; but, when we consider
the advantages which the institution

Whose powerful eloquence has charm'd them affords to the young as well as the ma

into

Silent admiration-gather, as 'twere,
To ponder on the past! But let us leave
I see you are not well, or much in fear-
Our cavern is secure against the storm;
And day may bring us hope, as well as light-
Then cheer thee, my belov'd-come, come.
[Exeunt. WILFORD

The fifty-third exhibition of the

Sharp.' Jackson has seven pictures, among which are portraits of Miss Wilson, of Drury Lane Theatre; of

Mr. Macready, in the character of Macbeth, and of Mr. Northcote; and Phillips, has seven pictures. Several other eminent artists have contributed liberally, whose productions we shall have occasion to notice.

Hardcastle, and Liston's Tony Lump-
kin, though very different from what
Goldsmith intended it, possesses so
much originality and happy simplicity,
that it is impossible not to be pleased
with it.

Horn and Mr. T. Cooke, did their best. The comedy was received with applause, and will, no doubt, run a few nights.

Mr. Braham and Miss Wilson, who have been re-engaged, have appeared in the operas of Love in a Village and Artaxerxes, with their accustomed success.

Mr. Bone has not less than eight DRURY LANE.-On Wednesday enamels; among which, we observed night, the King visited this theatre. portraits of her late Majesty, of Ca- Mr. Elliston, on being apprised of the nova and of the Marquis of Stafford. honour intended him, had made very SURREY THEATRE.-The very exMuss has three enamels, two of them splendid preparations to receive his cellent company at this house has redelightful portraits of Mr. Northcote Majesty, who was accompanied by the ceived an accession in Mr. Woolf, from and the late President of the Academy. Duke of Clarence. The entertain- one of the theatres royal, who has play In the gallery of Sculpture, Chant-ments were Colman's clever comedy of ed the part of Macheath, in the Begrey has eight pieces, including busts of the Heir at Law, and the whimsical gar's Opera, frequently, in the course Sir Walter Scott, Mr. Wordsworth, and farce of Modern Antiques, which was of the week. He has a fine voice, and the Marquis of Londonderry. West- a great favourite with his late Majesty. played with much spirit. Mr. Dibmacott, Turnerelli, Rossi, &c. are also The comedy was admirably cast, and din, taking the hint from Lord Byron, contributors. With this hasty sketch we should look in vain for better re- who, in the preface to his Doge of we conclude, and shall resume the presentatives of Dr. Pangloss, Cicely, Venice, has called Horace Walpole's subject more at length in our next. and Ezekiel Homespun, than Harley, Mysterious Mother a tragedy of the Miss Kelly, and Knight. In the farce, highest order, and not a puling love Munden's Cockletop was as it has al-play,' produced it on Thursday night, ways been, a master-piece of comic act-with those curtailments indispensably ing. His Majesty appeared highly necessary in the present state of the pleased with it, as well as with the whole evening's amusement. The national fairs of God save the King and Rule Britannia, were sung, as usual, by the whole strength of the company.

The Drama.

In the present depressed state of the draina, when melodramas, rope-dancers, grimaciers, and every species of buffoonery, are successively but not successfully tried, we are happy to see the legitimate drama gaining an illustrious patron in the person of his Although we would not wish to expresent Majesty, who has again ho-tend the penalties of Lord Ellenbonoured the two great theatres with his rough's cutting and maiming act' to presence. The visits of royalty to the the managers of the theatre, yet we theatres, have for some years been like should be happy that some means were the visits of angels, few and far be-adopted to prevent the productions of tween.' We hope, however, that as his Majesty has set the example, we shall soon revert to the example of those good old times, when the theatre was favourite and fashionable place of amusement, and when we might frequent them without having all our seven senses' outraged by degrading and disgraceful exhibitions.

COVENT GARDEN. On Monday night, his Majesty, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Clarence and Prince Leopold, visited this theatre, to witness Goldsmith's comedy of She Stoops to Conquer, with the afterpieces of London Stars, and A Rowland for an Oliver. We are no court chroniclers, and therefore we shall pass over all the preparations made for his Majesty, only observing, that he was received with that enthusiastic joy which the presence of the sovereign never fails to excite. The comedy was admirably performed: Mrs. Davison, an old favourite, sustained the part of Miss Hardcastle with admirable spirit, feeling, and humour. Fawcett and Mrs. Davenport displayed their wonted humour in the parts of Mr. and Mrs.

drama. That it possesses great dra matic effect, every person who has read it must allow, and Mr. Huntley, Mr. Burroughs, and, in particular, Miss Taylor, exerted themselves in the principal characters with great success.

Literature and Science.

A New Diving Machine.-A new diving machine, called a dolphin, has been invented by M. F. Farkas, an Hungarian. The continental papers have described some of the advantages of the instrument, but not its construction. An experiment was made with it at Vienna, in the military swimmingschool at the Prater. Count Joseph Esterhazy de Galanthy, Count Fergas de Ghymes, the acting chamberlain, Nemes Slagod, and several Englishmen and persons of distinction were

our best dramatists from the mutilations
which unskilful operators are perpetu-
ally committing upon them. We
have more than once had occasion to
censure the conduct of the Covent
Garden managers for their mangling
of Shakespeare, and we have now to
condemn an equally sacrilegious out-
rage at this theatre, on Cibber's sterl-
ing comedy of She would and She
would not, which has been cut down to
three acts, and produced under the ti-present. The servant of the inventor
tle of the Kind Impostor. Now, Mr. planged with the dolphin in twenty-
Elliston had no necessity to do this; his four feet water, and walked upon the
comic company is excellent, and he bottom over the whole square of the
could have played the comedy admira- swimming-school. To prove that there
bly; but he has done it for the sake could be not want of light, the inven-
of introducing some, though not his tor sent down a lantern, and when it
best operatic performers. The music was taken up again the light was still
is chiefly by Messrs. Horn and T. burning. After the man had remained
Cooke, with some selections from Mo-one hour under water, he returned to
zart. The characters have been sadly the surface without assistance; not be-
mangled: Harley was stripped of all cause he wanted air, but because all
the mirth and vivacity in Trappanti; who were present were satisfied with
and Munden trusted more to himself the success of the experiment, and di-
than to what was set down for him,' in rected that the man might ascend.
Don Manuel; Madame Vestris was
graceful and lively in Hypolita, and
Miss Povey, Miss Cubitt, with Mr.

Division of the Circle.-A curious discovery lately made in pure mathematics, we owe to M. Gauss, of Got

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1821.

Review of New Books.

CAPTAIN PARRY'S VOYAGE.

"The ample provision that Hope makes In all designs began on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness.'

We believe there are few persons in the least acquainted with the subject,

Price 6d.

were made by himself and his officers, in discretionary power to make them in the course of the voyage, leaving to such order as appeared to him most adothers to make their deductions from vantageous. We may observe, en pasThe narrative is taken sant, that Captain Parry, following the Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery principally from the official journal orders of the Admiralty, first attemptof a North West Passage from the kept by Captain Parry, on board theed to pass through Lancaster Sound, Atlantic to the Pacific; performed Hecla, and always, (as he tells us in his and succeeded. If he had accomin the Years 1819-20, in His Majes-introduction,) written within twenty-plished his passage through Behring's ty's Ships Hecla and Griper, under four hours after the occurrence of the Strait, he was then to proceed to Kamtsthe Orders of William Edward Parevent recorded in it. In several in-chatka, and send from thence, through ry, R. N., F. R. S. and Comman- stances, however, he has availed him- the Russian governor, a duplicate of der of the Expedition. With an self of the journals or reports furnish-his journals to London. From KanitsAppendix, containing the Scientific ed by the other officers, in all which chatka, he was to proceed to the Sandand other Observations. Published by Authority of the Lords Commis-and the individual mentioned who has place he might think proper, to refit cases the obligation is acknowledged, wich Islands or Canton, or any other sioners of the Admiralty. 4to. pp. supplied the account. the ships and refresh the crews, and 489. London, 1821. To the readers of the Literary Chro- then to return to England, by such It has been the good fortune of Cap-nicle it cannot be necessary to enter in- route as he might deem most convetain Parry, in his late voyage to the to any account of the discoveries made nient. Captain Parry was also allowArctic regions, to prove one grand ex- in the arctic regions previous to the ed to winter in the arctic regions, if he ception to a maxim of the bard who expedition of Captain Parry, as these deemed it necessary. He was direct⚫ was not for an age but for all time,' have been already detailed in our pre-ed to make such observations as might when he says,— ceding numbers, to which we must re- tend to the improvement of astronomy, fer*. The official instructions to Cap- geography, and navigation; and to tain Parry, (a copy of which he has pre-collect and preserve such specimens of fixed to his work,) were, that he should the animal, mineral, and vegetable Strait, and, when the ice was sufficiently make the best of his way to Davis's kingdoms, as he might meet with. who have read a narrative of the various voyages undertaken, under every posopen to admit his approach to the sible circunstance, to discover a north-western shores of the strait, that he west passage, and who have seen that should advance to the northward, as far Captain Ross fixed an impenetrable as the opening into Sir James Lancas-cretion and judgment. barrier in the very place beyond which ter's Sound; explore the bottom of Such being the objects of the expeit was desired to penetrate, could have that sound,-pass through it, if possi-dition, we shall now proceed to noexpected discoveries so important, and ble, and get to Behring's Straits. tice the most important circumsuccess so complete, as Captain Parry Should be fail in making a passage stances that attended it. The Hecla has achieved. The publication of his through this sound, he was to examine and Griper, the first commanded by work has been looked to with the ut- Alderman Jones's Sound, and if he Captain (then Lieutenant) Parry, and most anxiety, and although it has been could not pass through it, then to try the latter by Lieutenant Liddon, had long delayed, yet we think that its peSmith's Sound, in been prepared with great attention for rusal will, in this instance, confirm the every part of it. Should he fail here the voyage; and every thing that assertion of a dramatic poet* of no great down Baffin's Bay, and endeavour to entific objects of the expedition or the also, he was to return to the southward, could be necessary, either for the scimake way through Cumberland's safety and comfort of the crew, were him to the seas adjoining the eastern persons engaged on board both vessels Strait, or any opening that might lead liberally provided. The number of or northern coast of America, and the northward or westward, to Beh-in Captain Ross's voyage; and every pursue his voyage along that coast, to The seamen had, most of them, been ring's Straits. Although this was the individual had double the ordinary pay order in which the various attempts of his Majesty's navy. The two veswere recommended by the Admiralty sels sailed from the Nore on the 10th of to be made, yet Captain Parry had the May, 1819; and, on the 18th of June,

eminence, that

'Hopes long desir'd bring the greatest joy.'

The narrative of Captain Parry is all that we could wish: it is well written -circumstantial without being tedious, explicit without being commonplace, and interesting without the least

art or attempt at effect.

His object has been to give a plain and faithful account of the facts which

he collected, and the observations which Goffe's Orestes,

VOL. III.

Sir Thomas

* See Literary Chronicle, Nos. 80, 81, 83,

and 84.

The Lords of the Admiralty, relying with a just and liberal confidence on the well-known zeal and talents of Captain Parry, left much to his dis

were ninety-four.

when about latitude 58° 52′, and lon

gitude 489 12', they fell in with the first

U-19

rate of five miles an hour:'

Being favoured, at length, by the easterly breeze which was bringing up the sail was set, to carry us with all rapidity to Griper, and for which we had long been looking with much patience, a crowd of the westward. It is more easy to imagine than describe the almost breathless anxiety which was now visible in every countenance, while, as the breeze increased to a fresh gale, we ran quickly up the sound. The mast-heads were crowded by the officers and men during the whole afternoon; and an unconcerned observer, if any could have been unconcerned on such an occasion, would have been amused by the eagerness with which the various reports from the crow's nest were received; all, however, hitherto favourable to our most sanguine hopes.”

On the following day, they came near two inlets, in lat. 74° 15′ 53,′′ N. long. 86° 30′ 30′′; these they named On the 28th of July, the ships had Burnet's Inlet and Stratton Inlet. passed every impediment which ob- The cliffs on this part of the coast prestructed their passage into Sir James sent a singular appearance, being straLancaster's Sound. The breadth of tified horizontally, and having a numthe barrier of ice, which occupies the ber of regular projecting masses of middle of Baffin's Bay, and which had rock, broad at the bottom, and coming never before been crossed in this lati- to a point at the top, resembling so tude at the same season, was eighty many buttresses raised by art at equal miles in a N. 63o W. direction. Cap-intervals. Some islands, to which the tain Parry expresses it as his opinion, name of Prince Leopold was given, that, by taking advantage of every lit- were also stratified horizontally, but tle opening that is afforded, a strong without the buttress-like projections. built vessel, of proper size and weight, may, in most seasons, be pushed through this barrier. Sir James Lancaster's Sound was now open to the westward, and the two best months in the year, for the navigation of these seas, were yet to come.

'stream' of ice, and soon afterwards Parry gives a view, which is awfully
they saw several icebergs. On the grand, from a sketch by Lieutenant
fects of atmospheric refraction were ob-they frequently had to saw through
evening of the 24th, some curious ef- Beechey. In the course of the voyage
served, the low ice being at times con-
masses of ice; but they sometimes ran
siderably raised in the horizon, and through bay-floes, which were from
constantly altering its appearance. The four to six inches thick, ploughing up
next day, the ice through which they the ice before the ship's stem, at the
had been towing, closed together so ra-
pidly, that the crews had scarcely time If they were not very broad, the Hec-
to hoist up the boats before the ships la did not lose her way in passing through
were immovably beset. It is impos- them. Frequently, however, she was
sible,' says Captain Parry, to conceive stopped in the middle, which made it ne-
a more helpless situation than that of a cessary to saw and break the ice a-head,
till she made another start, and having
ship thus beset, when all the
power that
run a short distance in clear water, was
can be applied will not alter the direc-again imbedded in the same manner.
We
tion of her head a single degree of the (says the author) passed one field of ice
compass.' Some of the gentlemen about ten feet in thickness and many
walked a mile or two from the ships, miles in length, as we could not see over
and imagined they saw marks of a it from the mast head.'
sledge on the ice, but in this, Captain
Parry thinks they were mistaken. The
ships remained locked in the ice until
the 30th, when they were able to move
them a little. A southerly swell
dashing the loose ice with tremendous
force against the bergs, sometimes
raised a white spray over the latter, to
the height of more than one hundred
feet, and being accompanied with a
loud noise, exactly resembling the roar
of distant thunder, presented a scene
at once sublime and terrific.' On the
4th of July, the Hecla attempting to
push through the ice, was for some
time at the mercy of a swell of the
ocean, which drifted her fast towards
the bergs, but she was, fortunately,
brought back into clear water. They
were now near the middle of the nar-
rowest part of Davis's Straits, and had
the opportunity of confirming the ac-
curacy of that celebrated and able na-
vigator. Streams of the purest water
were often found flowing from the ice-
bergs, and from this time to the end of
the voyage, snow-water was exclusively
made use of on board the ships for every
purpose. During the summer months
it was found in abundance in pools,
upon the floes and icebergs, and in the
winter, snow was dissolved in the copper
for their daily consumption. On the
20th of July, the ships crossed a stream
of ice, of which the breadth scarcely
exceeded three hundred yards, and
which occupied them constantly for
five hours. The next day they drifted
towards an iceberg, which was one hun-
dred and forty feet high, and which,
from the soundings made near it, must
have been a-ground in one hundred
and twenty fathoms, so that its whole
height was about eight hundred and
sixty feet. Of this iceberg, Captain

From the time that Capt. Parry first entered Lancaster's Sound, the sluggishness of the compasses, as well as the amount of their irregularity, had been found to increase rapidly though uniformly. The irregularity became inore and more obvious as they advanced to the southward. By observation they found, that when the true course of the Hecla was about S, S. W., the binnacle and azimuth compasses at the same time agreed in shewing N. N. W. W., making the variation to be allowed on that course, eleven points and a half westerly. It was evident, therefore, that a very material change had taken place in the dip or the variation, or in both these phenomena, which rendered it probable that they were making a very near approach to the maguetic pole.

On the 1st of August Captain Parry entered Lancaster's Sound, which has obtained much celebrity from the very opposite opinions which have been held with regard to it. To him it was particularly interesting, as being the point to which his instructions more particularly directed his attention. On the 2nd, they sounded with the deep sea clamms, and found 1050 fathoms by the line; but as, where the soundings exceed five or six hundred fathoms, there is some uncertainty, Captain Parry supposes the actual depth to have been from eight We now, therefore,' says Captain to nine hundred fathoms. Sir George Parry, witnessed, for the first time, Hope's monument, which had been the curious phenomenon of the dithought an island in the former voy-rective power of the needle becom to be completely age, was now discovered to be a dark-ing so weak, as looking and conspicuous hill on the overcome by the attraction of the ship; main land. On the 30th, the Hecla so that the needle might now be properhad gained somewhat on the Griper, said to point to the north pole of the and was in lat. 74° 25′ 31," long. 80° 04' 30." Of the enthusiasm which now animated the crew, Captain Parry thus speaks:

ship. It was only, however, in those compasses in which the lightness of the cards, and great delicacy in the suspension; had been particularly attended to, that even this degree of uniformity pre