'Lieutenant Schmidt; AND WEEKLY REVIEW. "The Abbé Wemborn, formerly proctor of the bishopric of Strasburg. The Abbé Michel, secretary to the bishopric of Strasburg, (beyond the Rhine) and secretary to the Abbé Wenborn; this latter is French, as Wemborn is. 'The Duke d'Enghien's secretary, named Jacques. Feraud (Simon) valet de chambre to the duke. 'Poulain (Pierre) servant to the duke. Joseph Cannon, ditto. 'The nightingale is easily taken in a trap. As it generally seeks its food in fresh ground, it is only to clear away a place, and stir up the ground a little, near where it sings or frequents, then set the trap near it, baited with a living insect, and it is almost spring, if put in an aviary with other tame certain to be caught. Birds caught early in the latter part of summer will begin singing ones, will sing in a few days: those caught in November, if young ones; but the old ones will seldom begin till February? I cannot too highly applaud the firm and and leave it again in the autumn; of distinguished conduct of Quarter-master these the nightingale is justly the most Pfersdorff in this affair. He is the person admired for its sweet and melodious It has been generally supposed whom I sent the day before to Ettenheim, note. and who pointed out to me the lodgings of that they cannot be well kept in conour prisoners: he stationed all the videttes, finement, but Mr. Sweet points out a in my presence, at the outlets of the houses they occupied, and which he had reconnoitred way in which it may be done with almost the preceding day. At the moment when I as much ease as any of our native birds was summoning the duke to yield himself of song. In winter they require a great prisoner to me, Pfersdorff, at the head of deal of warmth, and may be fed with a several gendarmes and dragoons of the mixture of hempseed and bread, bruised 22d regiment, penetrated into the house by together in boiling water; insects are The General Dumouriez, who was said the back part, by getting over the walls of good for them, or during the absence of to reside with Colonel Grunstein, is no other the court-yard: these were the men per- these, in winter, the yolk of an egg boiled hard. We have no wish to make than the Marquis de Thumery abovemen-ceived by Colonel Grunstein, at sight of tioned, who occupied an apartment on the whom he prevented the duke from firing at ground-floor, in the house inhabited by Co- me. I solicit, general, the brevet of a lieu- our readers bird-fanciers, though Mr. lonel Grunstein, whom I arrested at the tenant for Quarter-master Pfersdorff, for Sweet's book would be a good step duke's house, where he had slept. I am in- which place he was proposed at the last re- towards it, for it is a sensible volume; debted to the colonel for the honour of wri-view of the Inspector-general Wyrion. He familiarly written, and free from techThe duke be- is in all respects fit to be promoted to that nicalities, we shall, however, close with ting to you at this moment. ing informed that his lodgings were sur- rank. Generals Ordener and Caulaincourt a brief extract relating to the nighingale, rounded, seized a double-barrelled gun, and will mention this sub-officer to you; and which is universally acknowledged to be levelled it at me as I was desiring several what they will say to you, respecting him, persons, who were at the duke's windows, to leads me to hope that you will take into the first of British warblers. open the door to me, and threatening that, serious consideration the favour I ask of you if they did not, I would carry off the duke for him. I have to add that this sub-officer by force. Colonel Grunstein prevented him has informed me that he was particularly from firing, by saying, "My Lord, have you seconded by the gendarme Henne, of the involved yourself?" The latter having an- brigade of Barr. As Pfersdorff speaks seveswered in the negative, "Well," said Grun-ral languages, I should hope his promotion stein, "all resistance is useless, for we are 'The Duke d'Enghien has assured me surrounded, and I perceive a great number of bayonets; it appears that this is the com- that Dumouriez has not been at Ettenheim: manding officer. Recollect that by killing that he might possibly, nevertheless, have him you would ensure your own destruction been charged to bring him instructions from and ours." I well remember hearing the England; but that he should not have rewords This is the commanding officer: but Iceived him, because his rank did not allow was far from supposing my life in such im- of his holding communication with such minent danger, as the duke has since re-ple; that he esteemed Bonaparte as a great At the man, but that, being a prince of the house peatedly declared to me it was. moment of the duke's apprehension, I heard of Bourbon, he had vowed an implacable a cry of fire! (a German signal.) I imme-hatred against him, as well as against the diately went to the house in which I expec- French, with whom he would wage war on ted to arrest Dumouriez; and on my way I all occasions. heard the cry of fire! repeated in several directions. I stopped a person who was going towards the church, probably to sound the tocsin; and at the same time I satisfied the inhabitants of the place, who were running out of their houses in consternation, by saying, "It is all by your sovereign's consent:" an assurance which I had already given to his master of the hunt, who had '(Signed.) hastened to the duke's lodgings on the first cries that were heard. On reaching the Here we close the third section of house in which I expected to seize Dumouriez, I arrested the Marquis de Thumery. the Napoleon Memoirs,' with a hope I found this house in a state of tranquillity, which removed my anxiety, and invested as I had left it before I proceeded to the duke's. The other arrests were effected without noise. I made enquiries to ascertain whether Dumouriez had appeared at Ettenheim, and was assured that he had not. I presume the idea of his having been there must have arisen from confounding his name with that of General Thumery. 'To-morrow I shall look into the papers would not remove him from the squadron. peo 'He is extremely fearful of being taken to Paris; and I believe that, in order to carry him thither, he must be very vigilantly guarded. He expects that the First Consul will confine him, and says he repents his not having fired on me, as that would have decided his fate by arms. 'These birds when in confinement are very restless at the seasons of their usual migration from one country to another; at the time that they are leaving this country in autumn, about twice during the winter, and again when they are returning in spring. From their agitation at various times in winter, it may be concluded, that they visit more than one country after their departure from this: it is very curious to see them, when in that state: their restlessness seems to come on them all at once, and, generally, in the evening; when they are sitsuddenly, and flutter their wings; sometimes ting seemingly quite composed, they start up flying direct to the top of the cage, or aviary, at other times, running backwards and for wards on their perches, continually flapping their wings, and looking upwards all the time; nor will they notice any thing that is going forward, as long as they continue in that that, if they continue equally interest-state, which lasts for an hour or two at each ̧ ing, they will not terminate until Napoleon has fully revealed himself, and given us the secret history of his whole life. 'The Chief of the 38th squadron of CHARLOT.' The British Warblers. An Account of F. L. S. time. By their always wishing to fly upwards, it may be supposed, that, when they wards to a great height, so that they can difirst take their flight, they mount direct uprect their course the better, by seeing the way clear all around them: their agitation sometimes more, and sometimes less; in generally lasts on them about a fortnight; the spring it seems strongest on them; at that season, they will sometimes flatter about the whole of the night, and sleep a which I have hastily brought off from the THE British birds belonging to the ge- Ferdinand VII.: a Dramatic Sketch of Coventry says, we think we have said the recent Revolution in Spain. Trans-enough, and, therefore, if any person lated from the Spanish of DON MA- has more money than wit, and wishes to NUEL SERRATEA. 8vo. PP. 253. know something more of the drama of 'Ferdinand VII.' we refer him to his bookseller. London, 1823. Goldsmith's Histories of Greece, Rome, Majesty's visit to Scotland last summer. Considerable pains have been taken with this volume to avoid every thing of party feeling. To the master who wishes his pupils to be readily acquainted with what all should know, and to the parent who is anxious that his children should learn history through an honest and impartial medium, we recommend Simpson's Editions of the Histories of Greece, Rome, England, and Scotland. Original. TO THE NORTH POLE. By M. Malte Brun. THE following observations on Arctic discoveries were written by M. Malte Brun, soon after the return of Capt. Ross's expedition; and, although some of his conjectures have been set at rest by the more recent expeditions of Captains Parry and Franklin, yet they still pos sess a high degree of interest, as the opinions of the first geographer of the age, particularly as they have not yet appeared in English, although noticed by us more than four years ago. They are translated from a work, entitled Coup d'Eil sur les Découvertes Géographiques, qui restent à faire et sur les Meilleurs Moyens de les effectuer. Par M. Malte Brun.' THERE is a time and a season for all things. Unfortunately for us, that time has passed before we have noticed the drama of Ferdinand VII.', which makes the constitutionalists triumphant at the very moment when they are crushed and seeking dishonourable graves in any place of refuge that offers. No person need feel surprised at an author choosing Ferdinand VII. for the subject of a THE rivalry which formerly existed bedrama, since his eventful life affords tween England and Scotland is evi-ON THE PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE materials enough for every species of dently changed in its object; the strugcomposition: his embroidering a petti-gle is now for superiority, in arts, not coat for the Virgin Mary was of itself in arms, and the sword is exchanged for enough for a five act comedy, and every the pen. In works of imagination and one knows, that his swearing to main- science the Scotch have long bearded us, tain the constitution was quite a farce; and in those of a less imposing, but not less then, as to tragedy, if he has not al- important character-elementary works, ready supplied materials enough, the they seem determined to dispute every public may be assured they will not inch of ground with us. If we wanted long be wanting: whether he may end any proof of Scotch determination in with becoming the victim of, as he has this, the four volumes of history, by Mr. long been an actor in a tragic scene, we Simpson, would furnish it. know not; but, certainly, of all the The first of these volumes (for they 'Lord's anointed,' there is not one whose are distinct and unconnected) that claims fate, whatever it may be, would excite so our attention, is the history of Greece, little sympathy as that of Ferdinand VII. abridged by Goldsmith; but with the Our author has happily, however, addition of an able introduction, decondensed into one drama what we scriptive of the geography of Greece, the wished to expand into half a dozen. military character, religious and political 'We already know enough of the two heHe begins with the petticoat, which the institutions, manners, customs, &c. of mispheres, into which the equator divides our king has embroidered, and which he the Greeks. This introduction, though globe, to be able, with certainty, to consider gives to the Cardinal de Bourbon, who written in a style which a school-boy them as very opposite in their natural conis charged with the office of lady's maid may understand, contains so compre-struction. One of these halves of the globe to the Virgin, at Toledo. The unman-hensive a view of the subject, clothed in is aquatic, the other is terrestrial. In the nerly cardinal wants his mission to lag such good language, that the matured 1,600,000 square leagues of land; whilst in southern hemisphere, we know of only upon the heels of time,' forgetting that student, or even the reader whose stu- the northern hemisphere, the extent of the king's business requires haste. dies have long since terminated, may known lands is 5,000,000 square leagues. Is read it to advantage. it not therefore probable, that the portion of each, which remains concealed from our view behind a barrier of perpetual ice, resembles the whole of what is known to us, difference in the two extremities of our plaand that land predominates round the north pole as water does round the south? This net, is perhaps to be traced to a mechanical cause: namely, the more considerable relative flatness of the southern hemisphere, which appears to indicate the measure of a bow of the meridian, formed near the Cape of Good increase of the terrestrial weight towards the dulumt. A celebrated geometrician, the MarSouth Pole, shown by the observation of a pen. quis of Laplace, seems to consider this fact as rendered very probable by the analogy of other celestial bodies, generally composed of two unequal halves. Perhaps, also, the Then we have brought on the tapis all the royal family, and almost the The principal feature in the History whole court of Spain, who are marshall- of Rome' is one which belongs to the ed as ultras and liberals. A principal whole of Mr. Simpson's histories,-that whose name the author conceals, with section; and these are so arranged that actor in the liberal party is a bishop, of having exercises or questions on each as much care as if he had prophesied the master on reading the question sees the result of the fall of Cadiz, and fear- the reference to that part of each chaped to involve him in Ferdinand's re-ter which contains the answer. venge. Ballasteros is also brought for- The History of England,' abridged by ward, and some English emissary, (little Goldsmith, needs not our praise; and Waddington, we suspect,) who has been it is no small compliment to Mr. Simp-Hope, and still more certainly, the more rapid sent to Spain, with a bundle of The Political House that Jack Built' and The Man in the Moon: these the grand inquisitor consigns to the flames, instead of the Englishman, as our readers, no doubt, expected; but they must recollect, that autos da fé are not fashionable under constitutional governments. We were going to enter into further details, but, as the member for It son to say, that his continuation of it is direction of the astronomical winter, seven days longer in the southern hemisphere, has prevented the organic forces of nature, the vital principle of the globe, from developing itself with the same activity as towards the North Pole, as many general phenomena would give us reason to think, among others, the paleness and rareness of southern auroras, compared with the brilliancy and frequency of those lights, which, under the name of aurora borealis, crown the North Pole. Whatever may be the truth, as it respects these bold speculations, we can offer more easy reasoning on the North Pole. How shall we explain, satisfactorily, the extreme cold of North America, and those continual dry and freezing winds, which, in winter, prevail in the United States, to the very confines of the region where the mild trade winds predominate? A great extent of land towards the Pole gives this temperature to America; whilst Europe owes its advantages to a directly opposite circumstance, the existence of an open sea, which divides it from the Polar regions. This reason alone is sufficient to make the balance incline; but, to this, let us add the appearance of foxes and rein deer, or, rather, of the kariboos, at Spitsbergen, during the summer months; let us enquire how these animals arrive thither, and how they return, and then let us dare to doubt the existence either of perpetual ice or extended land, in those spaces where some blindly suppose only a Polar sea. The discovery of an elevated and extensive land of one hundred miles, at the northeast of Spitzbergen, in 1717, by Gillis, the Dutchman, has ever been doubted; the Dutch maps coutain it from his own instructions; and Mr. Barrington mentions his voyage as a proof of the possibility of approaching nearer to the Pole. But is not this land an extremity of America? "Those who so lightly reject every indication of the existence of lands round the North Pole, equally deny that the sea may be frozen, but the former observations of Wood and the recent ones of Scoresby, prove that the ice planes are formed by the congelation of sea-water. Mr. Scoresby, who has frequented these seas a great deal, thinks, that if there is a Polar sea, it is covered by an arch of ice*. (improperly perhaps) to communicate with proceed direct by the lake or gulph seen by From these considerations, it appears that the expeditions to the Pole, or in the Polar seas, should be differently disposed to what they are. how far the land extends which they inhabit. The operation which appears to promise success would be to explore by land, as far as possible, the extent of America and Greenland. Since the Esquimaux tribes newly discovered to the north of Baffin's Bay, use sledges, constructed of whalebone and drawn by dogs, and proceed in them to the north, it must be surely possible to folThe result of ancient and modern voy-low the route of these savages and discover ages is by no means favourable to an idea of the existence of this sea, or at least of its being navigable. The most able and intrepid navigators, from Hudson to Mulgrave, have not been able to penetrate between Spitsberg and Greenland, beyond the 80th parallel. What proof have we of the reality or correctness of the pretended course of Captain Monson and some other Dutch captains, who, according to the account of the English Captain Gould†, went as far as the Pole? We cannot doubt the fact of Dutch navigators having visited this coast to the north of Iceland, where the lands of Edam and Gal-Hamke, and other lands, said Scoresby, on the Polar Sea, in the proceedings of the Wernerian Society, Edinburgh.' + Goulden-ED. 'Another terrestrial expedition should leave the factories of Hudson's company and In Captain Parry's first voyage, when the Sound, the directing power of the needle was vessels had proceeded some way in Lancaster overcome by the attraction of the ships; and the North Pole of the needle, in Capt. Kater's steering compass, was observed to point steadily towards the ship's head, in whatever direction the latter was paced.-ED. A third expedition would require more means and meet with more obstacles. This expedition, after having fallen down Mackenzie's River, should sail along the northern coast of the continent to Behring's Streights, or rather to the frozen cape, which was the limit of Cook's researches. As it is possible (and in our opinion probable), that the continent, in this part, extends to an immense distance in the north and north-west, this expedition might be involved in dangers and difficulties the more dreadful on account of the distance from civilized countries. It is quite possible that the coast of the gulph, seen by Mackenzie, extends to the north instead of the west, and, consequently, the expedition, in order to follow its course, might be forced to proceed towards the Pole instead of Behring's Straits. At any event, it would be proper for another terrestrial expedition, to leave the straits in question, and advance in the direction of the mouth of Mackenzie's River, to meet the first. It is almost unnecessary to add, that England and Russia are the only powers which could secure the means of executing these undertakings. It belongs also to England and Russia to explore those distant and inhospitable regions, where soon the furmerchant of Canada and the Russian promychlenick, of Kadjak, might meet armed, after having exterminated the animals, and subjected the savage tribes with brandy. Who, knows, however, whether the western extremity of America does not contain some warlike tribes, resembling the race of Tchoucktchis, and who would successfully defend the entrance of their mountains. Such an obstacle would of course destroy the object of the expedition. 'According to the results of these travels by land, the most proper direction of maritime expeditions, in search of a north-west passage, might be ascertained. We are perof an arm of the sen, or a chain of straits to suaded, that, even supposing the existence the north of America, the information obtained by these expeditions, would lead to an abandonment of every effort to navigate these with ships, on account of the ice, which must obstruct_it The only certain mode in these arms of the sea, which are ne cessarily narrow, would be ice-boats, such as are used in winter to cross the straits of the Baltic. It is not sufficient for these boats to be strong, they must be so constructed, as to ship over the ice like sledges. These amphibious vessels, if we may be allowed the expression, appear very proper for the polar coasts of America. But would it be possible to transport any considerable number of them? The Baidares of the Kamtchadales and Aleutians offer another advantage: their lightness admits of their being conveyed over necks of narrow land; it was in them that M. Otto de Kotzebue was to have pursued his route to the north of Behring's Straits, when his illness obliged him to renounce the project. In vain will the recent voyage of Capt. Ross be opposed to these observations. This navigator, after having verified the existence of Baffin's Bay and the surrounding lands, and done honour to the memory of one of the most skilful seamen of the 17th century, reached the entrances of Jones and Lancaster, where he found the water entirely free from ice, although in the seventy-fifth and seventysixth degrees of latitude. We may, therefore, have some hope, that if a passage really exists, it will be found navigable. One might precisely, with a little closer logic, conclude, from this absence of ice, the nonexistence of the passage; for, if the upper part of Baffin's Bay is less obstructed with ice than Davis's Straits, it is, because it is without communication with any other polar basin, and is thus sheltered from the currents which accumulate the ice on the eastern coast of Greenland, and receives no great river, whose waters could convey any considerable quantity of ice. Capt. Ross has, therefore, considered Jones's Entrance and that of Lancaster as close bays; we shall sec, by the result of the next expedition, if his antagonists have been able to prove him in error. open only at short and unfrequent inter-war on morals, and the healthful alle- Wood, the Englishman, and Beerents and Heemskirk, the Dutchmen, have, with more reason, attempted the route between Spitsberg and New-Zembla; but, as they set out either too late, or in an unfavourable year, they were unable to pass the eastern point. Every one has heard of the unfortu nate Dutchmen, and their wintering in the midst of Polar snows. But this very circumstance should operate as an important piece of knowledge with their successors. A navigator, anxious to arrive at Behring's Straits by the north-east, should set out from Spitsberg or New Zembla; for, considering the annual variations in the time of the breaking of the ice, it is not sufficient to arrive early in the Polar seas, but he should be there from the winter, in order to profit by the favourable moment. Perhaps, at a time least expected, currents of salt water from the ocean, rush into the Polar seas, and replace the fresh water supplied by the great rivers of Siberia and America: the disposition to freeze becomes therefore at such a hours replace the barrier. This phenome- period less sensible, and if any sudden wind should break, and drive to a distance the fixed ice, an open passage might be formed, and maintain itself even in the most danger"What we propose respecting a North- ous season; but the least change of wind, the West Passage, is already partly performed, least variation of the currents, might suddenwith respect to the North-East Passage.ly bring back the ice, and the space of a few The Russians have explored all the northern coasts, either on foot or in sledges, and light and flat bottomed boats. The Siberian banks incontestably form one of the two coasts of the North-East Passage. This passage is then discovered, and it is very improper to speak of seeking a North-East Passage, when, in fact, we only seek the means of passing through it with ships. But the shallow sea which waters the banks of Siberia apears, at a small distance from land, to be filled with fixed or floating ice. This icy surface even unites the two continents to the north of Behring's Straits. The observation made by Billings and Sauer, that the water of the sea to the north of Kowyma is sweet, evidently proves that it must form narrow basin, surrounded by lands abounding in rivers. From the same persons we learn, that, where the current came from the east, or the strait, the water became salt; but, adopting this fact as an indication of the rupture of the ice, and wishing to pro-higher literature had mixed little with fit by it, they soon again encountered that politics; but the minor agents of misinsurmountable barrier, which appears to be chief had been very busy-that the a ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. Or all the plans ever invented for hoaxing (John Bull would call it humbugging) the public and insulting Majesty, that of the Royal Society of Literature is certainly the most impudent. It is now about four years since two or three literary adventurers got hold of a few wise-acres, with more money, and perhaps less wit, than themselves, and made them believe that literature and loyalty could never be combined in England unless a society was formed. We were told that the We next learned that premiums were to be offered, all of which we appro priated to some good purpose. One of these we expected would be for a steamengine to put down radicalism; another for the best mode of removing Carlisle across the Atlantic, and a third for convertingCobbett into a methodist preacher. Thus simply did we conjecture, when we found that the healthful allegiance of the English mind' was to be obtained by far different means—in short, by a dissertation on the age of Homer, and a poem on Dartmoor! The prize for the latter was awarded; but three other prizes that were offered remain still undecided upon; and we have now before us the poem of one of the candidates on the Fall of Constantinople, by Jacob Jones, jun. of the Inner Temple, and late of Brasenose College, Oxford. It is accompanied by a preface, in which a very serious charge is brought against the society, no less than that of fraud, in having promised prizes for the best poems and essays delivered within such a time: and yet they have not only delayed to award them, but, after the prizes were offered, have actually withdrawn them, and substituted others. Now as the candidates were numerous, and the premium was declared to be for the best, we conceive the society bound in honour to give it. The changing the prize from one hundred guineas to two medals is unfair. But the society went further; and, after candidates had made their best exertions to win the prize, and had, at the suggestion of that body, taken advantage of the delay in awarding the premiums to withdraw their compositions, in order to alter or improve them, it was cruel to withdraw the prizes entirely, and tell the poor authors that their works were left at a bookseller's in Lamb's Conduit Street, where they might be called for; -and yet this the Royal Society of Literature has done. But as the subject is one to which we shall return, we quote, from Mr. Jones's preface, a copy of one of two letters of the secretary with the classical name-Mr. Cattermole, in answer to the candidates; and first to the author of one of the dissertations on the age of Homer : This letter is addressed to the prose candidate; to the poetic expectant, AND WEEKLY REVIEW. der, attention, and the power of com- Mr. Robertson, one of the secretaries, A series of resolutions, stating the proposed objects of the institute, were then read, and afterwards moved by Sheriff Laurie, Alderman Key, Mr. Martineau, the engineer, Mr. Rotch, barrister, Mr. R. Taylor, and Mr. J. Sydney Taylor, a young barrister, who, in a most eloquent and energetic speech, pointed 'Sir, I am directed to inform you, that out the advantages of education to sothe Council of the Royal Society of Litera-ciety, when adapted to the habits and A committee ture are of opinion that much industry and pursuits of individuals. was appointed to prepare a set of ability bave been shewn in some of the essays presented for the competition, but laws and constitution for the governthat they do not think any one of them ment of the institution, which consisted fully deserving of the premium offered.' principally of operative mechanics. The selection was not, perhaps, the most judicious, for the humble artisan can know little of the detail or arrangements necessary for forming an establishment of such importance as the Mechanic's Institute; but we can well appreciate the honourable and disinterested motive which prompted the selection, that of placing the foundation and management of the society in the hands of the mechanics themselves. THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. Mr. J. C. Robertson and Mr. T. HodgTHE establishment of an Institute for Mechanics will form an era in the his-kin were appointed secretaries pro temtory of the metropolis; and no project was ever commenced more auspiciously than the Mechanic's Institute. The first meeting, when the plan was to be proposed to the public, took place on Tuesday evening, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, when upwards of two thousand persons assembled. The chair was taken by Dr. Birkbeck, the founder of the Mechanic's Class, in the Andersonian Institution, at Glasgow. Mr. Richard Cattermole writes verbatim et literatim, with the exception of the word industry,' which is changed to 'ingenuity,' in the address to the poet: and this is the treatment of the Royal Society of Literature! But of this more anon. pore. MUSICAL LANGUAGE. THE French, who claim the merit of "A M. Sudre teaches what he calls a mu sical language, which is applicable to every converse with each other in music in this The worthy chairman, in a speech marked by good sense, eloquence, and way, without the trouble of learning to speak a language. In one of Mr. S.'s recent appropriateness, recapitulated the history of the formation of the Mechanic's courses, a Turk, upon the flute, conversed Class, at Glasgow, and the obstacles for half an hour with a Frenchman, who played that it had to encounter. It was said, the fiddle. The latter, of course, knew the the mechanics would not attend, or, if Turkish language upon principle, but not a word could he speak. This system may be very they did, would not listen, or not understand; but,' says the worthy doc-useful if generally adopted amongst well-intor, they came, they listened-they conquered,' and, he added, that, for three successive years, he gave lectures on the principles of natural philosophy, to an audience amounting to more than five hundred, which he would venture to say, had never been surpassed for or lan formed musical persons in Europe, because we M. Sudre's invention happens to he at 6 published two works entitled Polygra- The eccentric Phillip Thicknesse, who Nor were the speculations of Trithemius, Bishop Wilkins, or Mr. Thicknesse, mere idle theories, for there is a cation of a musical language, not constriking instance on record of the applistructed either by philosophers or muIt occurred in the prison of sicians. Olmutz, when the Marquis de la Fa |