mind

matic it may be; we mean that of
how do you do?'

'I have heard of a general officer,'
says Walpole, who may be classed
with the Archbishop of Grenada.'
When he was about ninety years of
age, he was disturbed with the noise of
some young officers, diverting them-
selves with some girls. Is this, gen-
tlemen, the example that I gave you.'

The Drama.

veral minutes, and the applause of the boxes, though less boisterous, did not seem less sincere. Mr. Kean appeared almost overpowered with this flattering testimony of public approbation, but he soon proved by his taleuts, that it was not unmerited. The transatlantic excursion, though it has not improved this eminent actor's style, (but who would seek for improvement in America!) has not injured it; his voice, we think, is somewhat less husky; at least it appeared so to us in DRURY LANE.The principal novelty some of the early scenes, though, toin the drama of this week, is the return wards the conclusion, he became as of Mr. Kean to this theatre, the scene hoarse as ever. It would be a work of of his first and greatest triumph. In superogation to criticise a performance our last number, we prepared our read-on which criticism has long yielded to ers to expect his return, by inserting his universal admiration; and, therefore, farewell to America; and we shall not we shall only say, that we never saw Mr. now enter into any observations on the Kean sustain the character of Gloupropriety or impropriety of Mr. Kean's cester with more spirit or greater effect. quitting his transatlantic friends so There was nothing in the other characabruptly. We may, however, say, ters deserving particular notice. without any fear of contradiction, that whatever Mr. Kean's talents may be, they are such as should not be permitted to waste their sweetness on the desert air' of the New World, while the old one is still ready so justto appreciate and so liberally to reward them.

Sailors say, we carried away our mizen mast; a thing they are no way inclined to do, particularly in a storm. Statesmen and lawyers are sometimes peculiar in their modes of expression. The Rev. Commissary Blair, who pro jected the college in the province of Virginia, and was in England to solicit benefactions and a charter, relates, that the queen (Mary), in the king's absence, having ordered the Attorney-ly General (Seymour) to draw up the charter, which was to be given with 20001. in money, he opposed the grant, saying, that the nation was engaged in an expensive war, that the money was wanted for better purposes, and he did not see the least occasion for a college in Virginia. Blair represented to him, that its intention was to educate and qualify young men for the ministry of the Gospel much wanted there, and begged Mr. Attorney-General would consider, that the Virginians had souls to be saved as well as the people of England. Souls!' said he, d-n your souls! plant tobacco.'

After the tragedy was concluded, Mr. Kean being called for, came forward, and, thanking the audience for their kind reception, said he hoped that, during his absence, he had done nothing unworthy of the character of an Englishman.-On Wednesday, this eminent actor (so Mr. Elliston calls him, and we do not hesitate to acknowledge the propriety of the epithet) played Shylock to a crowded house.

As soon as Mr. Ellistou heard that Mr. Kean might be expected in town on Monday, he announced him to play that and every other evening in the week. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. — We There was something very injudicious omitted last week to notice a new farce in thus hurrying an actor before the produced at this theatre, called Twopublic, without suffering him to have a pence, It is from the pen of Mr. single day's repose after a long sea- | Peake, the author of Amateurs and Acvoyage, and travelling by land, with tors, &c. and, like all the pieces of that all rapidity, a couple of hundred miles. gentleman, is full of spirit and huThe folly, too, of playing tragedy every mour. If Dr. Johnson had that antievening, without a single performer ca-pathy to à pun which is attributed to pable of sustaining its higher walks, him, he would have sat very uneasy unMr. Kean excepted, is obvious; but der this farce, which abounds with this manager always runs from one ex- puns, and though, as in all cases where treme to another. At one time, we had they become numerous, there are many no comedy but Wild Oats (though we bad ones, yet their character generally think that. Mr. Elliston should have was above those in. modern farces. sown his long ago); then succeeded Wrench, as a Twopenny-Postman, has Miss Wilson, and the operamania raged a good character; and Harley, as a for a few months; and now that Mr. Musical Cheesemonger, fonder of his Kean has returned, we are to have tra- bassoon than his business, elicited much gedy, not doled out to us according to applause: On the evening of the cothe public taste or avidity, but guided ronation, a new piece was produced, How came the strange expression of by no other measure than that of the entitled A Squeeze at the Coronation. enjoying a bad state of health?" of all physical powers of the actor. It is a loyal dramatic sketch, which enjoyments this is one we are most Mr. Kean's appearance, though not possesses more merit than pieces writanxious to get rid of; yet Giles Job-honoured by an overflowing audience, ten on a a temporary occasion generally bine said his wife enjoyed a bad state had a very good one; and his welcome can boast of. The manager, to do hoof health for many years. was as enthusiastic as we recollect tonour to the event which occasioned it, By the bye, one of the most common have witnessed at any period. The with great liberality opened his house queries of all, made in the way of salu-audience in the pit rose unanimously, at half the usual prices, for three suc tations is very uncouth, however idio cheering and waving their hats for se-cessive evenings,

The gentle Doctor South could, in argumentative allusion, use such terms as hell and d-nation proof!' which is certainly going as far as a point can well be carried.

Kneeling on your knees, may be found in one part of the Prayer-book. Our old translators of the Bible often insert, he answered and said.'

HAYMARKET THEATRE. The favourite opera of Guy Mannering was performed admirably on Thursday; throughout the whole range of characters, there was not one which could merit censure; the house was elegantly filled, many of the songs were encored, and the audience testified their delight by loud and reiterated cheers. Miss Carew played Lucy Bertram; Miss R. Corri, Julia Mannering; Mrs. Johnson, Meg Merrilies; and Mrs. Jones led the group of gipseys. Mr. Leoni Lee, a gentleman who increases in favour every time he appears, played Henry 'Bertram, and sung most effectively; the major part of his songs were encored and marked with peculiar approbation. The Dominie Sampson of Mr. Tayleure also appeared to give great delight, and was certainly an excellent performance. Mr. J. Russell's Dandie Dinmont was also a good piece of acting, in which he displayed rustic manners and native heroism with great truth and energy. We cannot couclade our present brief notice without observing that, as the season proceeds, the performances improve, and that many of the unfavourable remarks to which this company was subject at the opening of the theatre, cannot now, with justice, be repeated.

Literature and Science.

any

lous, and it was decided as long ago as the days of Buffon, that it is the obtundity of the nervous system of the Negro which renders him callous to the most scorching heat.

The Bee.

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia limant,
Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta.'
LUCRETIUS.

the black substance in the skin of the
Negro has great influence in prevent
ing the scorching operations of the
suu's rays. In the fourth number of
the Newcastle Magazine (a new work,
which does honour to provincial litera-
ture), the arguments of Sir Everard
are ingeniously combated, and his de-
ductions positively denied. Sir Eve-
rard had said, that the rele mucosum of
Negroes is a provision of nature against An American Caleb Quotem.-As
the scorching effect of the sun's rays.illustrative of the republican simplicity
In answer to this assertion, the writer and character of our citizens, the fol-
in the magazine contends, that, first, lowing anecdote, which occurred in
as a provision against the rays of the New York some time ago, will bear
sun, black is the very worst colour ample testimony:-An English dandy,
that could possibly be chosen-What just landed, ordered a suit of clothes
should we think of the man, who, to to be made by one
defend his bare pole against the scorch-tailors, which, by agreement, was to
ing rays of the sun, put on a black hat be finished on a certain day. The
instead of a white one?-Unless na- gentleman being disappointed, went to
ture were an ideot, she certainly would the tailor's and rated him soundly for
have preferred white.-Sir Everard his neglect. Sir, damme, in my
proves his point in the most absurd country, when a tailor disappoints his
possible manner. He interposes a customer, we send him to the devil.
piece of black crape between the skin
and the concentrated rays of the sun,
and then because the ardour of the
rays are blunted, he maintains that the
rete mucosum of Negroes is for this
purpose! The texture of the crape is
the true defence, and I will never be-
lieve but that white crape would answer

much better.

The Apograph.-A Mr. Andrew Smith, of Mauchline, in Scotland, has invented an instrument for copying drawings, &c. called by the learned, who have seen it, an apograph. It is so constructed, that drawings of kind may be copied by it upon paper, copper, or any other substance capable of receiving an impression, upon a scale either extended, reduced, or the same as the original. The arts, we under-ed skins near the north pole. stand, furnish no instance of an instru

of our

fashionable

Ah! yes, sir-Don't say ah! I am not to be disappointed with impunity. At that moment a person entered, who addressed the tailor as follows: Alderman, I have a petition before the Hon. the Corporation relative to one of the avenues, and I should be happy if you would be present and attend to it. Very well, sir,' says Secondly, why should nature be so the tailor, I know something of the partial to black men? The ancient subject, and shall do so." Scarcely Egyptians, the ancient Hindoos, and had he departed, before another one Caribs, all lived within the tropies; entered. I have,' said he to the taithe former were white, unless in those lor, placed a note in your bank for parts exposed to the sun; the latter discount; I have not spoken to any were red. At this day the Cochuin other director but yourself will you Chinese are yellow, and yet they reuse your efforts to get it done for me? side in a very hot climate. It is true, I will do my best,' said the tailor. the banks of the Senegal and Gambia When the last person departed, a young are hotter still; but there are black men officer in full dress entered, who adin New Holland, and very dark colour-dressed the tailor as follows:- General, I have come to receive your or Thirdly, there is no such thing as ders.' The Alderman, General, Bankment resembling this, either in its a pigment in the rete mucosum at all. director, and Tailor, said in reply, very pearance or operation, save what is In the eye, indeed, there is a pigment. well, sir, you shall have them, and you called the pantograph, and eveu from There was once a Frenchman pretend- will take care that the adjutant has the this machine it differs materially. The ed to demonstrate one in Edinburgh, division on the ground at the precise beam, in the former, is suspended ver- but neither professor Monro nor any hour.' The Englishman, who attended tically from an universal joint, whereas person could discover it, but only the these interviews, very leisurely lifted the beam of the latter is supported on Frenchman himself. It is quite im-up his eye-glass, and having viewed an horizontal plane. There is also a possible to separate the rete mucosum the tailor from top to toe, took his counterpoise added to the apograph from the cutis vera or under skin, leave, saying, Sir, you may send my above the centre of motion, which re- otherwise than by an arbitrary separa- clothes home whenever you please.' lieves the hand almost entirely of the tion. The colour of the skin depends American Paper. weight it would otherwise have to susnot upon any pigment, but upon its tain when the beam is out of the verti- texture; the texture of that of the Negro is thicker, but coarser wove. This would be a better preventive against the sun's rays than any pigment; but the truth is, the whole idea is ridicuVBW Bus CHITSOND

cal position.

ар

Colour of the Skin. In the Literary Chronicle, No. 99, we stated the observations of Sir Everard Home, that

Fair Rosamond Henry II. is said to have concealed his fair mistress, Ro samond, in a labyrinth at Woodstock, froin the jealous researches of his queen, who, nevertheless, according to the common report, found means to disco

scarcely need taste the whole voyage, unless
we choose.

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ver her retreat, and take her off by poison. This account, however, is founded upon no better authority than that of the old ballad, composed "The mean temperature where we now are is upon the subject. But if we may believe about 35° Fahrenheit, the sun just skimming Brompton, Rosamond did not die in 1173; nor below tc horizon at this time at midnight, so was she poisoned by Queen Eleanor. This au- that we have constant day, which you may thor expressly says, that after Henry had im- conceive is a great comfort in navigation prisoned Queen Eleanor, he continued to keep down to the depth of 500 fathoms, for bringing amongst ice. An apparatus was yesterday let Rosamond publicly for a considerable time This famous lady was buried in a church be-up water: its temperature by a registering longing to Godstow Nunnery, near Oxford. thermometer was 40 degrees Fahrenheit; that at the surface being 36 degrees. The specific THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION. gravity, at the same depth, was 1.0278, and at the surface, 1.0260. Our position, as deterWe have just been favoured with the follow-mined astronomically, is always to the north-favourable to the task she had in view. Her ing interesting extract of a letter from one of the gentlemen employed on the Northern Expedi

tion:

་ His Majesty's Ship Fury, Hudson's Bay, the Coast of America, June 26, 1821. "I take the opportunity of writing you, by the return of the Nautilus transport, which accompanied us to carry our heavy stores. We have had an excellent passage from the Ork. neys to this part of the world; the weather, however, since we have been here, has not been so favourable.

We have made two attempts to unload the transport, having made fast to icebergs for that purpose, but have been blown off successively by heavy gales, with the loss of some of our boats from the deck, and no small share of tribulation for the transport, which has not been properly fortified for the ice. She has come off, however, very well, considering every thing, having only lost the copper from her bows. We are now taking advantage of a fine day, and hope to get rid of her in a day or two, and to proceed upon our destination.

We made an island about a week ago, called Resolution Island, where we expected to see some Indians, but there was so much ice between the ships and the land, that we could not get in.

I can hardly give you an idea of our intended route, or, more properly, of our ideal route; first, because our course must, in agreat measure, depend upon the state of the ice; secondly, for want of a chart; for those in common use are so incorrect in the general outline of the coast, as to be perfectly useless. If, however, you should fall in with a good map of the country, I will tell you the track we shall endeavour to take.

west of our dead reckoning; from which it ap-
pears, that there is a constant current setting

from the north-west to south-east.'

ART.

containing:

1. Waldegrave's Memoirs.

2. Passage of Hannibal over the Alps.
3. Legend of Argyle.

4. Animal Magnetism.
5. Anne Boleyn.

6. Lives of Eminent Scotsmen.
7. Cook's Life of Hill.

8. Hazlitt's Table Talk.

9. Notes on the Cape of Good Hope.
10. Luccock on Brazil.

11. Lord John Russell's Speech on Gram-
pound Disfranchisement.
12. Climate for the Consumptive.
13. Parry's Voyage.
14. Croly's Paris in 1815.
15. M'Queen on the Niger.
16. Lord Byron's Tragedy.
17. Annals of the Parish.

18. Constitutional Association.
List of Works published-Notice of Works

in the Press.

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A LEGEND OF ARGYLE; or,

'TIS A HUNDRED YEARS SINCE.

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'After making Cape Farewell, the southern extremity of Greenland, in lat. 59. N. and longArgyle, the State's whole thunder born to 44. W. we proceeded nearly due west between Cape Chidley, on the Labrador Coast, and Resolution Island, in lat. 61. 40. N. and long. 63. W. where we now are; from hence we intend to steer, if wind and ice will permit, about a north-west course, and endeavour to explore an inlet to the east of Repulse Bay, which has néver yet been entered by any one but Fox,, about 150 years ago; thence we shall proceed to Hearne's Sea, where we shall winter (if we get there); then to Mackenzie's Sea, Behring's Straits, &c.

All the officers are exceedingly agreeable, and I have but little doubt we shall spend the winter very comfortably together. We are all preparing our rifles for shooting deer, with which these islands abound. We are, however, exceedingly well off in the eating way-plenty of fresh beef, mutton, pork, eggs, fish, and poultry on board, besides sheep, pigs, and 22 fine bullocks, on board the transport, and potted meats and soups of all kinds for more than three years, so that our salt provisions we

A Romance has just made its appearance under the title of "A Legend of Argyle; or, 'Tis a Hundred Years Since," which we have perused with great delight. The combination of historical narrative with fictitious detail is admirably well managed, and throughout the entire work the utmost delicacy of a polished and sensible mind is maintained. We feel a pleasure, therefore, in recommending the "Legend of Argyle" to our numerous readers.'

OPINIONS ON THIS WORK:Lady MORGAN'S View of Italy combines the high tone of philosophy with the most gay and familiar descriptions of the life and manners of the very mixed societies to which she had access: and her opportunities were highly narrative abounds with striking anecdotes, traits of character, incidents, fêtes, and farces, which will highly interest the public.-Morning Chronicle.

This is a work that will largely occupy public attention. It is by far the most important work which its author has as yet undertaken. It is not a classical tour, nor a picturesque tour; but it contains a rich harvest such traits of the domestic, social, and political of "middle age" anecdote, abounding with life of the great Republics of Italy, as cannot fail of exciting an intense interest. The gravity and massiveness of the subject have not, however, prevented the author from indulging largely in those humourous and striking details of real life, which form the charm of her more recent novels. Her views of society bave been more intimate than those of any other recent traveller. Her literary reputation has opened wide the door of continental hospitality to her; and this circumstance has given the same sort of interest and originality to her narration which made the reputation of her work on France, and distinguishes it from all other books on that country.'-Weekly Register.

'It is only doing the author justice to say, that she has given us more information on the actual state of society in Italy at the present moment, than can be found in any of the numerous publications which have made their appearance since the peace.'-New Month. Mag. fore, but seldom with so entertaining a com We have travelled the garden of Europe bepanion as Lady Morgan. She wields the wand of the Cicerone with almost an enchantress's power. Description, remark, character, anecdote, incident, miningle in so rapid and sprightly succession, that our attention is kept constantly on the alert, from the beginning to the ending of her peregrinations, extending from the Alps to Italy's remotest bounds. All her feelings and opinions are on what may be called the right side, generous, benevolent, and liberal. She possesses a strong vein of ridicule, but, with a few exceptions, her shafts are tempered with delicacy and goodnature.'-Star.

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Review of New Books. sensible of its superstitions; in his polical principles he is temperate. Italy and the Italians in the Nineteenth The work commences with an acCentury; or, Letters on the Civil, count of Naples, where the author arPolitical, and Moral State of that rived in the middle of the Carnival of Country, written in 1818 and 1819 of that city, he gives a very interesting 1818, of which and of the amusements With an Appendix, containing Extracts from Modern Italian Litera-description. The Neapolitans are said ture. By a Foreign Officer in the to have lost much of that harmless British Service. 8vo. pp. 271. Lon-gaiety, and that openness of disposition, which formerly distinguished them; they are, however, as foud of pleasure as ever, from the king down to the Lazzaroni; and some of their amusements are sufficiently whimsical: take, for example, the following:

don, 1821.

LES Italiens sont plus remarquables par ce qu'ils ont été, et par ce qu'ils pourroient être, que par ce qu'ils sont maintenant.' This observation of a distinguished writer, Madame de Staël, will not be disputed by any one at all acquainted with the history of Italy;

but the Italians are even now remarkable and interesting in many respects, and are not deserving of that neglect which they have experienced from travellers in general; for, while the antiquities, ruins, and buildings of Italy have been so often and so ably described, the moral state of its inhabitants has been passed over almost unnoticed. The work be fore us is confined principally to the latter subject, on which information is certainly most wanted.

The author states himself to be a foreigner, who not only passed his childhood in Italy, and became perfectly master of its language, but has resided and travelled in it recently, in order to add fresh information to old recollections. His letters contain an account of two different journeys made through Italy, embracing the greater part of Italy, Naples, Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, and Genoa. He says the Italians are but imperfectly known, and are often abused by foreigners, who include in one common description of character the whole of the various states, while a Tuscan and a Neapolitan, a Lombard and a Genoese, a Venetian and a Roman, are as different from one another as the Germans are from the English, or the Dutch from the French. The author professes himself well acquainted with the religion of Italy, and, although he speaks of it with respect, he appears VOL. II.

Price 6d. whipped, and hanged. Such is the cele

brated Policinella.'

the general character of the NeapoliThe author gives a good estimate of taus, which is not a very amiable one. They seem sensible of their degraded to the opinion which strangers may enmoral state, and are quite indifferent tertain of them. Shame, that loitering attendant of virtue, seems to be lost in the general corruption, and patriotism has fled from the polluted soil.' Of the truth of these remarks, the Neapolitans have given unfortunate evidence very recently

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Decency and delicacy are not conspicuous in the manners of the inhabitants of the street of Toledo, Prince L, the lic, the conversation runs upon the most 'I saw, one day,' says the author, in this country. Every thing is done in pubking's youngest son, in a car, with a nu- extraordinary topics and with as little dismerous suite in the garb of ancient war- guise as possible, Boys are seen running riors, with shields and a kind of shovels, about the streets, especially near the sea, which they filled out of buckets full of in a state of nakedness or nearly so. The confetti, discharging the contents against entrances and stairs of the houses and the company in the balconies. This is a palaces are filled with every kind of nuifavourite pastime of the season, although sance. The windows and balconies are sometimes attended with unfortunate con- generally thrown open, so that every sequences; for as sugar confections are thing is to be seen which is going on in a them, made of clay, which are very hard, class, when they come home, during the expensive, many substitute imitations for neighbour's house. Neapolitans of every and some as large as common nuts, so summer, that is to say six months in the that a shower of them becomes a very un-year, take off their coats and neckcloths, pleasant compliment, and serious disputes originate in this absurd custom.'

At the inferior theatres of La Fenice

and San Carlino, farces and panto-
mimes are performed for the amuse-
ment of the lower classes:

There you see the Policinella in his
genuine colours. This Neapolitan clown
is something similar to the Arlecchino of
Bergamo, pantalone of Venice, &c. but is
not an honourable specimen of the nation-
al character of his country, of which it is
intended as a caricature. Policinella is a
bourhood of Naples, and he is so highly
servant from Acerra, a village in the neigh
gifted by nature and accomplished by
education, that he is at once a thief, a liar,
a coward, a braggart, and a debauchee;
still the facetious way in which he relates
his various feats enraptures his grovelling
countrymen. He delights in licentious
double entendre, gross jokes, and dirty
in him; his cunning is very low, and he
tricks; there is not a single good quality
is always outwitted when he meets with
any person of sense, so that in the end
he is generally discovered, imprisoned,

and sit down at dinner with a night gown on, or with their shirt sleeves tucked up to their elbows. Ladies perform their

toilette with the doors of their dressing

rooms ajar, in sight of servants and strangers. All this, however, admits of some excuse, as the heat of the weather is in a great measure one of the principal causes of such indelicate customs.

The greatest familiarity often prevails between masters and servants. The former often joke and laugh with the latter, they talk confidentially of their affairs and intrigues before them, some even play at to expect no reverence nor subordination cards with them; it is natural, therefore, from domestics who are the confidents of all their master's foibles and vices. This renders Neapolitan servants perhaps the very worst in the world. They are dirty, lazy, and careless, insolent and unfaithful. They are great thieves; some of them will steal the paltriest things that fall in when out of livery, would think it betheir way. Most of them, especially neath them to carry a bundle, or any thing in their hands through the street, and will actually refuse to do it, er em