tates by his uniform example and daily walk. He was formerly on the most intimate terms of friendship with the reverend and venerable Mr. Newton, with whom he corresponded for many years. He was thrice married, and his seven children and young and amiable widow, who have survived him, were his habitual and indulgent pride. Fond of domestic retirement and the study of phytology, in the cloisters of leaves and beautiful flowers, he avoided the ostentatious glare of fashionable life, and resigned his spirit with serene prospects of felicity, in the seventieth year of his age, at Isleworth, into the hands and keeping of that eternal Being, who never leaves nor forsakes those who put their trust in Him. Original Poetry. HUMANITY. O, dear Humanity! reside with me; Come, then, and light the gloom where wretches pine, Since thou, of all my stars, shalt brightest shine. STANZAS. THO' sadly changed is my lot To that when first we met, Yet think not all that I have felt Can 'cause me one regret. P. LIKE A RAY OF THE MOON. LIKE a ray of the moon is my love, And serene as its beam is her breast; She's as pure as the spirits above, That dwell in the realms of the blest! As bright as the stars are her eyes, Her breath is as soft and as sweet As the fishes are true to the flood. Shall bie with this beauty so bright,I'll be constant as night to the moon, And she as the moon to the night. Thro' the stillness of joy will we rove, By the light which affection shall shed, Till, bound by the firm bonds of Love, We fly to the realms of the dead. On one breeze shall our spirits then soar, By one seraph be wafted to heav'n, And one angel shed purity o'er Our souls, as our sins are forgiven. J. C. P. COLIN AND 'ALICE. YOUNG Colin was courting fair Alice at eve, Where the gate, when it shut, them divided; He had told her his heart, that could never deceive, But she laugh'd and his innocence chided! O, I fear love's a dangerous passion," she cried, "That will visit affection with sorrow, And we should not so early to care be allied; Good night!-I will tell thee to-morrow.' A glance and a kiss, with a press of the palm, Were tokens of sympathy's beating; Their bosom was pulsed, but their parting was calm, 1 Though their love-stolen moments were fleeting, Acried, If we wed, that will fill us with sorrow!" And all the consent he could gain for his bride, Was, 'Good night! I will tell thee to-morrow!' MARIA. THE LILY AND THE ROSE. UPON a day-a lovely day, The day that June shook hands with May, A day of sunshine and of showers, A jubilee among the flowers;- Her snowy hue half changed to pale, But, ah! misfortune's shafts unkind Too soon our seats of joy invade,And when misfortune wrings the mind, The lily and the rose soon fade;→ The brother of her love lies low, We must be gone ah, day of woe!) ok But time, perhaps, and Colin's love May heal her deeply-wounded mind, unti For these the sorrows can remove That in naught else a balm could find; Thatvied in brightness with the morning dew, The Brama. DRURY LANE.-On Wednesday night, Mr. Kean appeared, for the first time this season, in the character of Brutus, in the tragedy of that name. There are few characters even in the lents embraces, in which he appears to extensive range which Mr. Kean's tamore advantage than in Brutus. The assumed idiotcy under which he veils his indignation and resentment, until it bursts all restraint, and falls with tenfold fury on the head of Tarquin, though requiring great art and skill, was powerfully portrayed by Mr. Kean. In the judgment scene, where the principles of justice, and the love of country triumph over the feelings of a father, he was great; the sternness of the Roman and the affections of the parent were seen struggling with each other, in a manner which excited the pity and admiration of every one capable of the slightest feeling. Mrs. West, who we were happy to see restored to this theatre, played Tarquinia, and in those scenes which afforded any opportunity for her talents, she exerted them to much advantage. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Gaelic language places the rose in the was performed on Tuesday evening, masculine gender. when Mr. Cooper resumed the charac ter in which he first appeared on these boards-that of Romeo: he played it with much spirit and feeling, and Mrs. West was a most tender and loving Juliet; the scene in the garden was very excellent. The Coronation, which has been performed upwards of eighty times, continues to be repeated almost every other evening. The barge she sat in, like a buraish'd throne, but the most splendid and gorgeous of whose conduct turns out to be proall the scenes exhibited, is Cleopatra's perly laudable. There is besides this galley sailing down the Cydnus, another page, who is a very dashing which comprises all the luxury of de- cavaliero sort of person, though with scription with which historians, poets, the warmest feelings of kindness for and painters have adorned it. It filled his fellows. the whole frame of the stage, while On Thursday evening, an unfortu-1 thunders of admiring applause re-nate accident occurred at this theatre, sounded, instead of the music of the during the representation of The Two Mrs. Baillie's tragedy of De Mont-orchestra, to the plying of the oars. Gentlemen of Verona. In the bandit fort is withdrawn; the revival has been The galley is of great size, and is scene, Mr. Abbot, who plays Proteus, as unfortunate as its first trial.. framed on the model of that which received a very severe cut in the face, On Thursday night, The Road to Shakespeare has so beautifully de- immediately under the eye, from the Ruin was performed: Old Dornton, scribed :— sword of one of the bandits." He shriekby Mr. Munden; Silky, by Mr. ed out loudly, and was carried off the Knight; Sulky, by Mr. Gattie; and stage. It was thought that the wound Goldfinch, by Mr. Harley,-in point was dangerous, but Mr. Egerton afterof merit, much in the order in which wards stated from the stage, that it they are placed; but the novelty of was less severe than was first the evening was Henry Dornton, for the first time, by Mr. Cooper, in which he excited but small interest, till he became fully sensible that his profligate conduct had brought ruin upon. his indulgent father and upon his respected firm; then the strong emotions of affection and remorse, friendship and phrenzy, were forcibly depicted, and to the end of the piece were displayed in appropriate and masterly delineaments. Miss Kelly's Sophia was an admirable piece of acting, and the Widow Warren was well sustained by Mrs. Harlowe. the bars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. -On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids, With divers colour'd fans. A seeming mermaid steers.' fell. thought, and that the eye, which it had been feared was injured, was untouched. The audience, with characteristic sympathy, feeling no wish to see a In consequence of the sudden in-performance continued which had been disposition of Miss Hallande, who attended with so painful a circumplayed the character of Sylvia delight-stance, called for the piece to be immefully, it was undertaken, on Saturday diately terminated, and the curtain evening, by Miss Boyle, a young lady from the Dublin stage, who made a This is a lively and amusing trifle, very successful debut in the part; and without any thing very striking either on the following evening she undertook in story, incident, or dialogue. The the part of Zelinda, in the play of the two pages, one of a sentimental and the Slave, a character about which Miss Ste- other of a lively disposition, had charmphens has thrown so matchless a charm, ing representatives in Miss Foote and as to impose an arduous task on her Mrs. Chatterley; and Farren, as Fresuccessor. Miss Boyle, however, sungderick, and Mrs. Fawcett, as a genesweetly and acted prettily, giving conrous innkeeper, contributed to the siderable promise of future fume. success of the piece, which was decisive. SURREY THEATRE.-This house ter minated a brief autumnal season on Monday night. We understand arrangements are making for opening it with great eclat at Christmas,, for which the prolific pen of its present able manager, Mr. T. Dibdin, is in active employment. Literature and Science. COVENT GARDEN.-The operatized play of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, has been frequently represented during the week, and been as attractive as mere pageants, (for we no longer con- On Saturday evening, a new farce sider it a play of Shakespeare's, or go was produced, called The Two Pages to see it as such,) generally are, when of Frederick the Great. It is founded got up with the splendour for which on the well-known anecdote of the this house is distinguished. It is diffi- King slipping a purse of gold into the cult to speak in too high terms of the pocket of a sleeping page, in consescenery in this piece. In the fourth quence of his discovering that the boy act, a carnival is represented, among kept himself impoverished by sending the entertainments of which are intro- his money to relieve the wants of a duced several fancy scenes of such ex-needy and affectionate mother. In traordinary lustre and richness as to the farce, the distresses of the mother set language nearly at defiance to de- are developed at some length. It apscribe them adequately. The first pears, that her late husband fell in Fre- A German traveller, of the name of presents the square of Milam, with the derick's wars, and that she is seeking Waldeck, has recently arrived in Engs superb public buildings illuminated. shelter in the capital from the rapacity land, from India, and is preparing an The procession of the Seasons and of a local magistrate. She arrives at account of his travels through Africa, Elements crosses the stage, in all the the house of a notabie but generons from Egypt to the Cape of Good profusion of illustrative embellishment inn-keeper, who, on learning her name Hope. It appears, that at the foot of which the arts have adapted to the and quality, shelters her gladly, and the mountains of the moon, he found personifying of them.-The buds undertakes the responsibility of the pe-an inscribed pillar, erected by a Rospring out in blossom, the corn rushes cuniary claim brought against, her, man Consul, about the period of the up in ripeness, and the fruits grow The King happens to be in the street, reign of Vespasian. On the top of suddenly mellow, as the different por- and is made acquainted with the whole these mountains he found a level, neartions of the procession advance. affair, just after he has deposited the ly four hundred miles broad, on which The machinery which represents money in the pocket of the page. The he discovered a temple of the highest Winter is a highly curious and beau-piece ends, of course, with a consum-antiquity, and in fine preservation. tiful specimen of dramatic engineering, mation of good fortune to all those is still used for religious purposes by It 7 the inhabitants. South of the level he passed a descent of fifty-two days' journey, and when advanced about nine days, he found the skeleton of a man, with a telescope slung on his shoulder, marked with the name of Harris, and also a chronometer, made by Manchard. There were also two other skeletons, and it was, supposed the persons must have perished for want of water. The Bee. 'Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia limant, Capital Punishment in Spain.-The Dramaticus, are intended for insertion, as is alsoWisdom, à Vision.' We have received the books, forwarded some time ago by our Correspondent at Isling ton, though we forgot to acknowledge them. The Maniac of the Lake' might be much improved by attention; until that is done, we cannot admit him into our family. Errata, p. 766, col. 1, 1.2 from bottom, for 'Thesaurus' read Thuanus;' col 2, 1. 17. from "I was curious,' says a re-bottom, for Anecdate' read Anecdote.' cent traveller, to see the death inflicted, and I confess that I had no notion it could be caused with so much Advertisements. We cannot take our leave of these publica The author of Calthorp' and The Mystery' has in the press a tale, in-humanity. A man should witness such titled Lollardy,' founded on the per- a spectacle, as his opinion as to the SMEETON's HISTORICAL AND secutions of the fifteenth century. best mode of its infliction may, one BIOGRAPHICAL TRACTS; under the imLady Jane Grey and Mary Queen day or other, have an influence. The mediate Patronage of the King, of Scots have found new biographers in extinction of life seemed the affair of been graciously approved of, and, by permis The above Series of scarce Reprints having Mr. George Howard and Miss Benger. an instant. The victim occupies a sion, dedicated to the King, may now be had Royal Society. On Friday, the seat which is attached to an upright complete, in 2 vols. foolscap 4vo. (only 200 30th ult., St. Andrew's Day, the post, an iron collar is placed round Copies printed) embellished with numerous Royal Society held their Annual Meet- his neck, and strangulation is pro-Portraits and Views. Price £4. ing at their apartments in Somerset duced by turning half round a multi-tions, without expressing our approbation of House, when the President, Sir Hum- plying screw, which brings the collar them, as neatly executed, cheap, entertaining, phry Davy, Bart. (after an appropriate close to the post. I observed no con- and meritorious performances. Lit. Gaz. address), presented, in the name of the vulsion-no movement of agony. The Mr. Smeeton has performed an acceptable Society, two gold medals (called Sir garrote is as expeditious as the guillo-to the researches of the future historian and service in laying these scarce pamphlets open Godfrey Copley's), one to John Frevertine, and it sheds no blonde hus ways antiquary. When the txt original Tracts are derick William Herschel, Esq., for of society over human life has always sequent high prices of the original Tracts are his mathematical and optical papers, appeared to me a very doubtful ques- considered, the utility of reprinting them must printed in the Philosophical Transaction; if life is to be taken, I can con- be sufficiently obvious. The Tracts are very tions; the other to Captain Edward ceive no means more fit for its adop-neatly printed in small 4to. and the orthograSabine, for his observations on the magnetic needle and pendulum, made during the late voyage to the Arctic Seas, published in the same work. Afterwards the Society proceeded tow the choice of a council and officers for the ensuing year; when, on examining the lists, it appeared that the following gentlemen were elected : 3 Of the Old Council. Sir H. Davy, Bart. Of the New Council. Earl of Aberdeen. H. C. Brodie, Esq. James Ivory, Esq. W. Hamilton, Esq. Sir R. Seppings, Kut. President-Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. LL. D. Secretaries William Thomas Brande, Esq., and Taylor Combe, Esq. After the election, the members of the Society dined together, as usual, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. Dr. Wilkinson, of Bath, has obtain tion.' the Fowler, Emperor of the West, who was the first who introduced those arms. has been preserved.'-Gent Mag. 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Mr. Bowdich's mission, so much notice of him, to appoint one of under the African Committee, pointed his own officers to reside at his capital; out and left much to be done by fu- and this evidently made the most favourture embassies, and without wishing to able impression upon all present. detract from that gentleman's endea- the linguists and captains rose, and each As soon as the commission was read, vours, we may observe, that the limit- of them, in succession, taking one of the ed circumstances under which his mis- king's swords (which was about the size sion was undertaken, deprived it of and shape of a bill, with the handle case d much of its importance; for it could in gold, but the blade rusted in blood, hardly be expected that the wily mo- flourished it about for two or three mi 488. London, 1821. MR. HUTTON, who has made four voy-faith in treaties entered into with the lemn oath of allegiance and fidelity to his narch of Ashantee would place much nutes, within an inch of Mr. Dupuis's nose. During this time, they made a soages to the Gold Coast, engaged him- company's servants-with whom he Britannic Majesty. The king rose last self as secretary to the unfortunate was in continual squabbles; and, as and took the same oath; after which, his Major Peddie, who, with so many of might have been foreseen, treaties majesty stated that he was sensible the our adventurous countrymen, perished formed and held together by such a King of England was a great king, greater in the attempt to explore the interior slender tenure, were rent by the first than all the other kings in Europe; and of Africa. The fate and particulars shock of a contested palaver. The that if he wanted ten thousand of the of this expedition are well known, and king, in fact, declared that these trea- Ashantee troops at any time, they should Mr. Hutton, speaking on the subject, ties had not been properly explained to forward the views of his Britannic Mabe ready to march to any part of Africa, says, experience has convinced me to him by Mr. Bowdich, by whom he that such formidable missions will ne- said he had been deceived. Mr. Hut-siasm with which the king expressed himjesty. Nothing could exceed the enthuver succeed in exploring Africa, as the ton, speaking of an interview with the self upon this occasion in favour of Great natives are too jealous and too much King of Ashantee, says,— Britain; and the delight and satisfaction alarmed at such a force.' Owing to which beamed on every countenance was some misunderstanding between the parties, Mr. Hutton did not proceed with Major Peddie; but, in 1820, he formed one of an embassy to Ashantee, under the direction of Mr. Dupuis. In reply to an observation which was made by Mr. Dupuis, that the king had consigned over to the British Government the natives residing under the forts on the coast, his majesty produced the original treaties, and requested me to read them over, and explain the contents to him which being done, he said that they had not before been properly explained to him, as he never had agreed to give up his power over those people, whom he declared were his subjects, from Apollonia on the west to Danish Accra on the most gratifying to our feelings.' Upon this declaration, our ambassadors acted, and the treaties which are now entered into, rest upon a more durable foundation. Mr. Dupuis The last mission to Ashantee was in and any successor he might appoint 1817, and was conducted by Mr. Bowas consul were to be recognized; the dich, under the direction of the African claim of one thousand six hundred Committee. The object was to conounces of gold, made on the Governor ciliate and form a commercial treaty of Cape Coast, was relinquished; his with the King of Ashantee, as well as sable majesty acknowledged allegiance to gain all the information possible re-east.' to the King of England-putting to specting the extent and resources of Our author and his companions, rest all differences and palavers, resolvthis kingdom, and the interior of Afri- therefore, found the treaties, if not ing to encourage mutual commerce, ca in general. The results of this em- altogether set aside, yet so little ad-admitting the natives under British bassy have been detailed by Mr. Bow-hered to as to be of trifling value. protection to be intitled to the protecdich, in an interesting volume, and it New treaties, in consequence, became tion of British laws, and to be amenawas to strengthen and improve the in- necessary, and it required all the ad-ble to them only in case of any act of tercourse thus opened, that the em- dress and perseverance of the embassy bassy of M. Dupuis and Mr. Hutton to place the alliance with the King of was undertaken; and perhaps few per- Ashantee on a foundation which should sons could have been selected better leave that powerful monarch no room "qualified for the task. to fear its infraction. Accordingly, we see, when our ambassadors spread before him the well selected presents sent by the British Government, and heard the proposals that were made, his sable majesty The work of Mr. Hutton may be considered as valuable; for, although much has been conjectured by former travellers, Mr. Hutton has given us the fruit of eleven years' actual observation of those mighty resources openVOL. III. Expressed great satisfaction that the aggression; and stipulating that the path between Cape Coast and Coomassie should, for the future, be kept in good order; half by the British authorities at Cape Coast, and half by the King of Ashantee. From this, it will appear that the embassy has been conducted with very considerable address, through obstacles difficult to encounter-and through very dangerous and heart-ap 3 D-53 palling scenes. And too much praise cannot be bestowed on them, for having, in so short a time, accomplished such solid advantages. Mr. Hutton's observations and suggestions as to the exploration of the noble rivers in the Bights of Benin and Biafra, are made in such feasible terms, that we doubt not but the Colonia! Department will largely avail itself of his suggestions, and improve them to the benefit of our country. We have hitherto only noticed Mr. Hutton's embassy in a pohtical and commercial view; but we must ob gave great offence to the king, who was The Ashantees, we are told, have The criers of the court having called "silence," Endo began by stating the origin of the dispute, the ill-treatment of serve that his work contains a good the king's messengers by the Commenda deal of information respecting the people, the first message sent by the country through which he travelled; king to the governor, with the governor's and, therefore, we shall make a few ex-answer, and the king having accepted tracts. Of the haughty conduct of the the present sent him by the governor, sable King of Ashantee, we may judge while he refused that which was sent by from the following fact:the pynins of Cape Coast, which evinced his desire to be on friendly terms with the white men, while the contrary was manifest as regarded the natives under the fort, who had given him offence, and, therefore, he refused their present until they had given him satisfaction. Enkansa followed, and stated that no insulting Coast, at any time they thought proper, in the event of the differences not being amicably settled. Accordingly, the day was fixed for our departure, and Prince Adoom agreed to supply three hundred Ashantees and two captains, to conduct the embassy to the capital, and to assist in carrying the presents to the king.' In travelling to the capital of Ashantee, our author says, Our hammock-men, after travelling eight miles, halted, and expressed a wish to rest until the morning under a large cotton-tree, which spread its lofty branches so as to protect us from the dews of the night. This, however, I was unwilling to listen to, from the impression that it would be better to proceed to the nearest village; but after it became dark, and as our difficulties increased, I regretted our departure from the cotton tree; for we found the path so bad, that the hammockmen frequently fell down, and I would willingly have halted for the night if there had been any town at hand to enable us "After the King of Ashantee had reto do so, as we did not travel more than a turned from the war with the Buntakoos, mile and a half in an hour, and that in the or Adinkiras, so called from their king's greatest misery. At last we lost our way, name, he sent (as is usual on such occawhen we halted, and after some difficulty sions) several jaw-bones to Cape Coast, in getting a light, we made two large Elmina, Commenda, and Accra, to confires in the woods, around which we all having conquered his enemy, Adinkira.message was sent to the governor, advis- seated ourselves for nearly an hour. But ing him to build the castle-walls higher, as we were exposed to the heavy dews At Commenda, a British settlement, about and that if the messenger had said so, he which always fall at night in this part of twenty miles from Cape Coast Castle, the was in confinement, and would lose his the world, as well as to the wild beasts pynins, or chiefs, drove the king's mes- head. He added, that the king being which infest the forest, I did not conceive sengers out of the town, without allowing tired of sending messengers to the govern-it prudent or safe to remain in this situa them even a draught of water, and the or, had now sent down his nephew, Prince tion; and, notwithstanding the unwillingboys hooted and pelted them with stones. Adoom, with full powers to negociateness of our people to leave the fire, and The Ashantee messengers, on being and settle the dispute; but that the king their intreaties to rest themselves until the driven from Commenda, proceeded to demanded one thousand six hundred morning, I ordered them to proceed, Cape Coast, where they complained of ounces of gold from the natives of Cape which, after some expressions of dissatisthe ill-treatment they had experienced; Coast, and the same quantity from the faction, they complied with. but instead of receiving any redress, they were sent back to the King of Ashantee, governor, for having broken the treaty. without being shewn the common rights of hospitality. When his sable majesty became acquainted with it, he sent a mes- they made answer by desiring the linguist up a bush hog. We requested them to vince the natives of those towns of his senger to the Governor of Cape Coast, and to the principal men of that town, The substance of the two speeches to ask Adoom, or any of his attendants, if 'Here we entered a miserable hut, and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, we found several of the natives cutting this they were unwilling to do, and redirect. us to the cabboceer's house; but conduct of the Commendas, stating that tee, or to any black men whatever? The ference, not even offering us a draught of water or a seat to rest ourselves after our they were under the protection of the reply to this was a negative; when the fatigue, that we felt not a little incensed Cape Coast natives; and, " "therefore," at their inhospitality. We, therefore, says the king, "you shall give me satis-governor said, "then tell them I am not faction in the present case.' He prefernow going to begin.' told them that we were travelling to the Upon this spirited reply, a great up-king of Ashantee, and exposing ourselves, red making his demand on the town of roar and confusion ensued, and the meetCape Coast, as he well knew the povertying broke up; but a second hearing took nefit, to settle the palaver between the at that late hour of the night, for their beof the Commendas rendered them inca-place some days after, when it was deterpable of paying the penalty; but this de-mined that the embassy should immedi- Ashantees and Cape Coast people, and mand was refused by the governor-in-ately depart for Ashantee, with an assuronce more requested them to shew us chief, principally on account of the meswhere the cabboceer lived. Reasoning, ance from Prince Adoom, that Mr. Du however, with these barbarians, had no sage being couched in improper lan- puis and his companions should be pro- effect, and finding them still immoveable, guage, and accompanied with insulting tected and allowed to return to Cape was so provoked by their conduct, that advice to the governor, to build the castle-walls higher, and to prepare for the These criers have a singular appearance, I drew my sabre, and told them, if they Ashantee army, which, it was intimated, wearing monkey-skin caps, with a gold plate did not instantly lead the way to the cabwould march to the sea-side in forty days, backs; at the end of almost every sentence de- This threat (however puerile it may ap in front, and long tails hanging down their boceer's house, I would cut their ears off. if the demand were refused. The govern-livered by the linguist, or person speaking, or answered, that the king might march they call out loudiy, "tchawoum! tchawoum" pear to those who have no apprehensions his army down in twenty days if he silence! silence! of losing their ears in such a summary thought proper, as in that time he should hundred of these criers, who attend the lin- manner) had the desired effect; for the be prepared to receive him. This reply guists, and are all deformed.' man who was cutting up the bush hog There are upwards of a I |