550 men, allowing ten men to each vessel, their wages at the average of 30s per week, (including captain and steward's wages, will amount to Suppose the average consumption of coals to be Another sum is to be added for harbour dues, consequence of communications made to him by foreigners residing abroad, is in possession of certain improvement in machinery for making velvets, and other cut work 7th October.-4 months. To John Ham, of West Coker, Somersetshire, vineg maker, for his improved process for manufacturing vinegar. 7th October.-4 months. To Matthew Bush, of West Ham, Essex, calico-printer, for certain improvements in machinery or appant fir printing calicoes, and other fabrics.-7th Oct.-6 mothe To John Shaw, of Milltown, in the parish of Gha Derbyshire, farmer, for his transverse spring slides trumpets, trombones, French-horns, bugles, and every other musical instrument of the like nature.-7th Octobe To John Thomas Hodgson, of William-street, Lambeth, Surry, veterinarian, for certain improvements in the costruction and manufacture of shoes, or substances for shoes, for horses and other cattle, and method of applying same to the feet.-7th October.-6 months. For the information of your readers, I will now give you | Castle steam-boat, and employed her on the river Forth, an account of the number of steam-boats built in Scotland, between Leith and Stirling; he afterwards took her to and what have been sold of these to England, Ireland, the Inverness, where she has been for two years plying beContinent, West Indies and America. There have been tween that town and Fort Augustus, going seven miles by built about 95 steam-boats, the cost of which will average the Caledonian Canal, and twenty-three miles along Loch about £4000 each. Sunk capital is £380,000. Of that Ness. Many other boats were successfully established number there have been forty sold from the ports of the about this time on the Forth and Clyde, and several on the river Clyde, that were built and finished there. Last year rivers Tay, Thames, Mersey, and Humber, and between no less than fifty-five steam vessels were plying in Scotland, Southampton and the Isle of Wight; but it was not till thirty-two of them belonging to the Clyde. the year 1818 that a steam-boat was made use of to perSuppose these fifty-five steam vessels employ form regular voyages at sea. In this year the Rob Roy, of 90 tons, built by Mr. Denny, of Dumbarton, and with an engine of thirty-horse power, made by Mr. Napier, of Glasgow, plied regularly between Greenock and Bel£32,175 0 0 fast, and proved the practicability of extending the use-2 months. of the steam-engine to sea navigation. In the year 1819, the Talbot, of 150 tons, built by Messrs. Wood, 32,175 0 0 with two thirty-horse engines, made by Mr. Napier, plied daily between Holyhead and Dublin throughout the whole summer and autumn, and successfully encountered many severe gales. In the year 1820, the Ivanhoe, of 170 To Philip Chell, of Earle's-court, Kensington, Middle tons, built by Mr. Scott, with two thirty-horse engines, sex, Esq. for his improvements in machinery for drawing made by Mr. Napier, was established on the same station; roving, and spinning of flax, wool, waste silk, or and in 1821, the Postmasters-General introduced steam-fibrous substances. 14th October.-6 months. boats at Holyhead and Dover, for the conveyance of the mails. During these last three years, the Belfast, Robert Bruce, Waterloo, Eclipse, Superb, Majestic, and Cambria, were constructed, of large tonnage and with engines of great power, for conveying passengers between Greenock and Belfast, and Liverpool; between Liverpool and Dublin; and between Liverpool and Bagilt, in Flintshire. All these vessels, except the Cambria and Belfast, were constructed in the Clyde. In the year 1821, the City of Edinburgh and the Mountaineer were established, to go between Leith and London; and, in the present year, there have been already fitted for sea the St. Patrick and the St. George, at Liverpool; the James Watt, for the Leith and London station; the Swift, to go between Brighton and Dieppe; the Sovereign and the Union, between Dover and Calais; and the Lord Melville, to go regularly between London Bridge and Calais. Twelve more are in hand, and will be completed this summer. Ferry-boats, propelled by steam, sufficiently commodious to carry carriages, horses, and cattle, have been established, with great public utility, on the in Scotland; and on the Severn, the Mersey, and the Tay, between Dundee and Fifeshire; at the Queen's Ferry, Humber, and at other ferries." 6,500 0 0 22,000 00 22,000 0 0 £114,850 0 0 If we suppose that each passenger pays 4s. the number of passengers in one year will be 574,250! This shows you the commerce by steam navigation in Scotland, for which the public is in a great degree indebted to your most obedient and humble servant, So that the annual receipts ought to be....... HENRY BELL. Scientific Records. [Comprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve- Extract from a Report of the House of Commons. "The first instance of applying steam to vessels is that which occurred in 1736, when Mr. Hull obtained letters patent for the construction of a steam-boat for towing vessels in and out of port. The application of paddlewheels, now so generally adopted, appears to have been originally suggested by this patent. Mr. Hull proposed to employ the atmospheric engine of Newcomen, which, by means of a crank, communicating with the working beam, imparted a rotatory action to the wheels and paddles which were placed in the bow of the vessel. Next in succession were the experiments of the Duke of Bridgewater, to use steam-boats for towing barges on canals; and then came those of Mr. Miller, of Dalswinton, in the county of Dumfries, in a double vessel, with a wheel in the middle. But after Mr. Hull came the Marquis de Jouffrey, who unquestionably holds the most distinguished rank in the list of practical engineers, who have added to the value of the invention: in 1781 he constructed a steam-boat at Lyons of 140 feet in length; and with this he made several successful experiments on the river Soane. In 1795, Lord Stanhope constructed a boat to be moved by steam. In 1801, Mr. Symington tried a boat that was propelled by steam on the Forth and Clyde navigation. Still no practical uses resulted from any of those attempts. It was not till the year 1806, when the Americans began To Francis Henry William Needham, of David-street, to use steam-boats on their rivers, that their safety and Middlesex, Esq. for his improved method of casting steel. utility was first proved. But the whole merit of construct--Dated 7th October, 1824.6 months allowed to enrol ing these boats is due to natives of Great Britain. Mr. specification. Henry Bell, of Glasgow, gave the first model of them to Mr. Fulton, and went over to America to assist him in establishing them; and Mr. Fulton got the engines he used in his first steam-boat on the Hudson river from Messrs. Bolton and Watt. Steam navigation seems to have made great progress from this time in America. It appears from the Report of the Select Committee of the Sessions of 1807, on this subject, that there were then seventeen large steam-boats in constant employment on the American rivers, besides ferry-boats. A list of steamboats has been published by Mr. Robinson, which shows, To Pierre Alegre, of Kerez de la Frontero, Spain, enthat, on the Mississippi alone, the tonnage of those in gineer, now residing at Colet-place, Commercial-road, work at present amounts to 7259 tons, and of those build- Middlesex, for his improved and economical method of ing to 5995 tons. There are now, in all, about 300 steam-generating steam, applicable to steam-engines and other boats in use in America. useful purposes.-7th October-2 months. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. To Walter Foreman, Esq. of Bath, Somersetshire, commander in the royal navy, for certain improvements in the construction of steam-engines.-7th October.-6 months. To Frederick Benecke, of Deptford, Kent, verdigris manufacturer, and Daniel Towers Shears and James Henry Shears, of Fleet-market, London, coppersmiths, who, in consequence of a communication from a certain foreigner, are in possession of certain improvements in the making, preparing, or producing of spelter or zinc-7th October, 6 months. To Humphry Jeffreys, of Park-street, Bristol, merchant, for his improved flue or chimney for furnaces and other purposes.-7th October.-2 months. "Mr. Bell continued to turn his talents to the improve- To John George Bodnier, of No. 50, Oxford-tet, Charlton-row, in the parish of Manchester, Lancashire, civil engineer, for certain improvements in the machine for cleaning, carding, drawing, roving, and spinning cotton and wool.-14th October.-6 months. To James Gunn, of Hart-street, Grosvenor-squar dlesex, coachmaker, for certain improvements in carriages.-14th October.-6 months To William Philip Weise, of Tooley-street, Southwark, Surry, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the paring and making waterproof cloth, and other mater for the manufacturing of hats, bonnets, caps, and apparel, and in manufacturing the same therefrom October.-6 months. To Henry Marriott, of Fleet-street, London, monger, for an improvement on water-closets. 14th Oct months. 2 To James Fetlow, of Manchester, Lancashire, wean for certain improvements in power looms for weaving rious articles.-14th October.-6 months. beth, Surry, engineers, for their method A singular fact in geology has been lately disclo while boring for soft water, at the foundry of e Cawood, in this town. For the first 30 yards, the bor irons were not affected in any manner out of the way; beyond that point they became possessed of a hi magnetic power, which continued till the irons had p trated to the depth of 60 yards; afterwards the attra ceased, and the boring is now proceeding without effect being produced upon the iron out of the ordina way.-Leeds Mercury. Biographical Notices LORD BYRON. The following anecdote, from Captain Medwin's is quite in the Eastern style: "One of the principal incidents in The Giaour, is rived from a real occurrence, and one too in which I mys was nearly and deeply interested; but an unwillingness have it considered a traveller's tale, made me suppress fact of its genuineness.-The Marquis of Sligo, who k the particulars of the story, reminded me of them in En land, and wondered I had not authenticated them in t Preface: To Robert Dickenson, of Park-street, Southwark, Surry, "When I was at Athens, there was an edict in for Esq. for his improvement or improvements in the manu-similar to that of Ali's, except that the mode of punis facture and construction of metal casks or barrels, for the ment was different. It was necessary, therefore, that conveyance of goods and products by sea or otherwise.-7th love affairs should be carried on with the greatest privad October.-6 months. I was very fond at that time of a Turkish girl-sy, for of her as I have been of few women. All went on ve well, till the Ramazen, for forty days, which is rather long fast for lovers: all intercourse between the sexes forbidden by law, as well as by religion. During t Lent of the Musselmans, the women are not allowed quit their apartments. I was in despair, and could hard th hin self from the house (they live together) most of the time we were there, on that account. By the way, as I have heard somes disputes as to the pronunciation of the great poet's name, I may mention, that he read a document to us, in which he had occasion to speak of himself in the third person six or eight times, and he always pronounced it Biron; the i sounded as in French or Italian." of Lord Byron, thus sketches his character in his obserMr. Leigh Hunt, of the Examiner, who had seen much vations on Captain Medwin's work: contrive to get a cinder, or a token flower sent to express it. curls, and was, for a crop, rather long. He tells us in his We had not met for several days, and all my thoughts writings, that it was grey at thirty; at present it is very were occupied in planning an assignation, when, as ill fate generally and thickly interspersed with grey hairs, but the would have it, the means I took to effect it led to the dis- natural colour (light auburn) is likely to preponderate at covery of our secret. The penalty was death-death with- least till forty; the greyness does not appear much, except out reprieve a horrible death, at which one cannot think when very close. His eyebrows and lashes are darker than without shuddering! An order was issued for the law his hair, or as dark; but his mustachios are nearly white, being put into immediate effect. In the mean time I and by no means improve his appearance. Upon the knew nothing of what had happened, and it was deter- whole, his head is one of the finest I ever saw, although mined that I should be kept in ignorance of the whole not according in many particulars with what the sculptor affair till it was too late to interfere. A mere accident adopts as perfection. He has wonderful power and variety only embled me to prevent the completion of the sentence. of expression; but while I had occasion to observe him, I was taking one of my usual evening rides by the sea side, that of gaiety was chiefly put forth. We remained five hours Looking at the general impression likely to be prowhen I observed a crowd of people moving down to the with him, and had luncheon or rather an early dinner.duced by this volume, we think, that, in many respects, store, and the arms of the soldiers glittering among them. He talked with first about several people who were it will tend to correct some prevalent impressions in regard They were not so far off, but that I thought I could now known to both, from their circle of society being the same. to the character of Lord Byron very materially. Without and then distinguish a faint and stifled shriek. My cu- He then went to general subjects, and rattled away in the settling the degree of blame on his part in the fracas with rity was forcibly excited, and I despatched one of my most amusing, quaint and playful way, exactly as you Lady Byron, it proves that his feelings, however comfallvers to inquire the cause of the procession. What would expect from the author of Beppo, Don Juan, and batted by occasional resentment and inconsistency, were was my horror to learn that they were carrying an unfor- the Vision of Judgment. I sought in vain among his those of a man and a father, and that with much waycute girl, sewn up in a sack, to be thrown into the sea! lineaments for the gloom, the grief, and despair which wardness and self-engrossment, he was any thing but the id not hesitate as to what was to be done. I knew I lower over the greatest portion of his other productions. morose and gloomy misanthrope which he has been vulld depend on my faithful Albanians, and rode up to His demeanour to us was frank and kind, and his manner garly esteemed. He himself denominates his perversity officer commanding the party, threatening, in case of was, as I said before, that of Don Juan-rouè et insouci- inherited; and without implicitly admitting this sort of refusal to give up his prisoner, that I would adopt ant. When we expressed our surprise (I mean to give inheritability, temperament is doubtless often hereditary, ans to compel him. He did not like the business he you an idea of his manner) that the Greeks should remain although the extraordinary Doctor, to whom we have on, or perhaps the determined look of my body-guard, in such a state of inactivity and not endeavour to render before alluded, observes, that he must not lay this flatconsented to accompany me back to the city with the their present insecure fastnesses by every means in their tering unction to his souf as an excuse for his aberrations whom I soon discovered to be my Turkish favourite. power more tenable, he laughed most heartily, and said that is to say, he will be danined nevertheless. This Suce it to say, that my interference with the Chief Ma-that they depended much on the Turkish want of enter- mode of reasoning the practice in the courts below doubt. gistrate, backed by a heavy bribe, saved her; but it was prise. When we represented how easy it would be to burn less fully bears out, where the inevitability of a man's only on condition that I should break off all intercourse the Turkish squadron (two frigates, two corvettes, and meriting the halter, who is bred up by pickpockets, can with her, and that she should immediately quit Athens, four brigs) he said that that was a serious operation to them never be taken into consideration in awarding judgment. and be sent to her friends in Thebes. There she died, a that would require months of preparation. He then went Whether hereditarily perverse or not, Lord Byron was *- few days after her arrival, of a fever-perhaps of love." on-" Damme, I asked Mavrocordato a night or two ago, educated like a man of rank, and apparently with less to go out in a boat in the evening with me aud smoke a than the usual control; and the union of aristocratical segar against them" (looking quite serious)" and, would prejudices and strong passions with commanding intellect you believe it?-he refused!" While making himself and genius, necessarily produced proportionate conse very busy to bring about the dinner, which was not a very quences, as in the case of Alfieri, whose character and easy task, his butler drew a bottle of wine: "What wine career exceedingly resembled those of Lord Byron. One is that, Fletcher ?" inquired his Lordship. "I don't of the results of high birth is self-engrossment, and possibly know" responded Fletcher. Then away with it," rejoined it is almost equally common to acknowledged genius; and, he, smiling, "I hate an anonymous wine." Speaking of and consequently, when they are united, a double portion of looking at his arms, led to a conversation upon dexterity in waywardness is the result. We perceive, in these anceusing them. He instantly produced a brace of pistols, and dotes, proofs of great humanity, benevolenee, and symas is a good shot, they fired several times each at pathy; but it cannot be concealed, that the importance of bottles. His Lordship never missed; he even hit a small Lord Byron in his own eyes is uniformly conspicuous. As fragment of the neck of a bottle previously broken. He a public character, we are rather disposed to rest on his im laughed very heartily at a number of adventurers, who pulse and his undoubted energy, than on his principles, come to Greece without a farthing, expecting high rank which both in politics and in religion, were avowedly latituand high pay, and who, finding ni l'une ni l'autre, were dinarian. That energy was admirably adapted to the extaking themselves off in disgust. He says, that from his sting state of the Greek cause, and was felt accordingly; previous knowledge of the people and country, he knew but circumstances have prevented us from ever learning what he had to expect, and that it is all well enough for him the nature of the opinions of this extraordinary man in by way of amusement. He disclaims all wish to take any respect to civil arrangement. On the strength of some lead among them; but he has accepted, at Mavrocordato's light conversation about presentiments and omens, we are earnest request, the nominal command of an expedition pro- called upon to regard him as superstitious; just as if jected against Lepanto, which was to take place in a few notions, which, if carefully traced, usually spring out of days. The reason urged by Mavrocordato was, that the a portion of latent vanity, operating upon the willing men would obey his Lordship better than himself; but at magination of individuals strongly distinguished from the the same time he said, that he expected they would all rest of mankind, were a proof of superstition in its more desert, save five hundred Suliotes, which Lord B. has in general sense! Or, as if the indulgence of such surmises his pay at the rate of three dollars a month each. He has necessarily implied a belief in the divine mission of Samalso paid their fleet lately; and, in fact, is handing out his monocodom and the nine incarnations of Bramah! The dollars liberally. He says that neither Greeks nor Turks same clear-headed journalist calls himself a sceptic, and can fight without being roused, and regretted, from the then says, that he had no fixed belief, as a sort of concircumstance of the greatest part of his gin having "run sequence. We thought that even the old womanhood through the bowels of his household," that he had but immediately addressed were aware that a sceptic knew faint hopes of setting them by the ears. I counselled what he did not believe much better than what he did, him to import a cargo of courage from Holland. He said and that the absence of a systematic faith was the essence he wished he could; but a nearer quarter would suit him of the character; but possibly the school of the Doctor, better. While firing at the mark, a large Newfoundland like the college of Sganarelle, has subsequently changed dog, called Lion, was frisking about. I said, "That is an all that," a supposition his eternal liberties with fact and honest-looking tyke of yours." "Oh, ho!" he exclaimed, common sense render extremely probable. "I find that you are half a countryman of mine." [The To conclude: Lord Byron was a man of great genius writer is a native of Scotland.] What surprised me some- and strong passions, habitually uncontrolled in the first what was, that just as he began to fire at the mark, he instance, and never very much mastered at any time. His took something out of a small box. Happening to be with. chief vice, after all, appears to be that of the men of rank out snuff at the time, I was instantly attracted; when, lo! I and fashion of the day generally, rendered more conspidiscovered its contents to be, not ground, but cut tobacco, cuous by contempt of hypocrisy, more intense by the of which he took out a small portion, and putting it into energy and peculiarity of his character, and dangerously his mouth, munched it with great assiduity, occasionally sentimentalized by the romance of a fervid imagination. ejecting its juice. I felt angry at him for staining his very His failings, as we have already said, were indisputably fine and white teeth. Colonel Stanhope is quite an en-self-engrossment, and an ardent desire of distinction, thusiast; he is about to establish printing presses, and has after all, his ruling passion. On the other hand, he was one or two along with him. Byron says that if the press as certainly humane, benevolent, and generous, although satirizes any particular individual, if he should not be able unequal and capricious even in the exercise of his virtues. to read the libel himself, he would get somebody to do it, His courage, energy, and enterprise are proved, in the and that then he would come down on the poor printer, volume, in numerous instances. In short, he was a great tie his press about his neck, and pitch him into the sea. man as it was; and setting aside the poet, we think that Stanhope, who is a man of education and talent, does not within him lay the seeds of something more than was ever relish his Lordship's jokes, and absolutely absented him- developed." The following pleasant and minute narrative of an interview with Lord Byron is an extract from a private letter, with which we have been favoured, written a short time previous to the death of the patriot poet.-Examiner. We found the great man (Mavrocordato) surrounded by thirty or forty men, armed after the manner of the country, with richly chased pistols and ataghans, while he, on the contrary, was in a French dress blue coat, drab waistcoat, wide blue pantaloons, and boots, all be much worn and badly brushed. His complexion is swarthy, his face rather broad, an aquiline nose, eyes large, black, and expressive; and on the whole his countenance indicates intelligence and shrewdness, but from his wearing his hair tumed back, and hanging in bushy profusion about his shoulders (he has no neck) and a huge pair of ugly mustachios, he has a singular and not very prepossesang appearance: his height may be five feet six or seven. The matter not being immediately adjusted, it became necessary to fix another meeting, and I availed myself of the circumstance to assuage my curiosity by the ight of a personage much more interesting to me than all he Greek patriots together, and whom we before missed; mean Lord Byron, who had arrived a few days before m Cephalonia. Well, suppose me at Missolunghi for he second time, and fairly ushered into the presence of the Noble Bard. I assure you it was a great treat to me, d one of the few realities which are not exceeded in ancipation. Col. L. Stanhope, from the London Greek Comtee, introduced us. We found the mighty son of song in room with Turkish sofas, and its walls hung round with ms of various descriptions, such as carabines, muskets, wling-pieces, pistols, swords, sabres, a claymore, and e three helmets which you may have seen quizzed in me of the ministerial papers; his arms are emblazoned each: motto "Credé Biron." For with all his sins nd errors on his head, he is a most fascinating man. He ore a dark green jacket, with rough black cuffs and coland a profusion of black trimming, like the storm kets of some of the cavalry regiments; a blue cap with carlet border, a black waistcoat, wide blue pantaloons, ith broad scarlet stripes, and boots. He is not so tall as enerally represented, being only about five feet nine inches. fle stoops slightly, and is of a muscular make, especially bout the thighs. He is full-faced, and particularly broad From the angle of one jaw to the other; he has a fine mouth and teeth; nose neither large nor otherwise; it is nearly straight, but has the least perceptible rise a little above the middle of its length, and perhaps from this to the point ning to hollowness; but these inequalities are very g; it is broad from one nostril to another: his eyes Full and light grey, or something between that and Blue His forehead is high, and grows narrower as it seeds; it is naturally very smooth, but he frequently racts it into deep wrinkles, and as suddenly unbends His hair is fine and soft, as yet evincing no tendency lo baldness: it is divided naturally into an infinity of spiral 66 Correspondence. LORD BYRON. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-Amongst many of the random assertions ascribed to the late Lord Byron, in his conversations lately published by his friends, he is reported to have said, that the best epigram with which he was acquainted was the following one, by Rogers: "They say he has no heart, and I deny it, Now, although this couplet is smart enough and neatly tarned, it is, after all, nothing better than a pun; and, on that account, not to be compared to numerous other epigrams which must be familiar to every reader of this species of composition. Hundreds might be cited which, while they are to the full as well expressed, contain genuine wit, without the spurious admixture of pun. I have transcribed a few specimens, which occur to me on the spur of the moment, and which are, most probably, inferior in point to many others that might be adduced. Yours, &c. grammar (language) should still be corrected; and they have made your good grammar into bad grammar, by their corrections." How can correction, which means in composition rectifying, make good into bad, or make the pure impure? Your analysis can never render nonsense into sense, nor can all your sophistry make the paragraph you talk so much about, reconcilable to perspicuity, as you would have it stand. You say "We did not mean to say that the inhabitants subscribed the present;" we meant to say-"the inhabitants subscribed the purpose:' your construction will therefore stand thus-"The mag. nificent present which the inhabitants of Liverpool subscribed the purpose to offer to Mr. Gladstone." This reads smoothly; does it not? When you serve the Mercury up as a side dish, you had better have the flying hare jugged, which you notice thus, in the last page of hare and a pheasant on the wing, at one shot:" perhaps your paper" William Gregson, of Hawkhurst, killed a you meant to inform us that he killed a hare and a pheasant, both flying. I shall glance my eye upon you now and then. November 4, 1824. P. LECTURES ON FRENCH LITERATURE, &c. We understand that Monsieur Trolé, of whose talents and literary attainments public report speaks in the highest terms, is about to deliver a short course of lectures, in Liverpool, upon French literature; the first section of introductory part, M. Trolé will give a rapid sketch of the history of literature, the arts and sciences in Europe, from the first dawn of the French nation to the present time. The following are the Epigrams which adduces by which will comprise that of the age of Louis XIV. In the way of illustration :- LORD LYTTLETON'S EPIGRAM ON MISS BROWN. When I was young and debonnaire The brownest nymph to me was fair; But now I'm old, and wiser grown, The fairest nymph to me is Brown. TO A DULL RHYMESTER, WHO ASSERTED THAT EVERY POET WAS A FOOL. Should I admit your general rule Still your own doggerels serve to show it Friend, in your epitaph, I'm griev'd So very much is said, One half will never be believ'd, ON SEEING A MISER'S CHIMNEY SMOKE. His chimney smokes, it is some omen dire, His neighbours are alarm'd, and cry out fire! TO A QUACK, WHO HAD THE CACOETHES SCRIBENDI, Thou essence of dock, of valerian, and sage, On glancing your eye (your eye, you know, revolves like the ball in the socket of a Theodolite, it turns inwards and outwards) over the theatrical critiques in the London papers, you observe some drolleries, which you take leave to mention. "Drury-lane was opened on Saturday, with The Marriage of Figaro. It has been cleaned and embellished during the recess.' Which of the two, you ask, was cleaned, the play or the theatre. Admirable critic." In your own leading paragraph in your last paper you say," The Morning Chronicle will, in time, cleanse the Augean stable, if it weary not.' Whether do you mean will weary not, the Chronicle or the stable? Again," We do not carp thus at a contemporary's writing with any malicious purpose." Do you mean your contemporary's malicious purpose, or your own malicious purpose? If you are so charitable as to wish to instruct your fellow labourers, pray qualify yourself; for with your present faculties you are very unfit for that task; you must not be more obtuse, you had better be more acute, and do not tell us "that it is very droll your We have seen, in a great variety of cotemporary journals, the most favourable mention made of this gentleman's perfect competence to the interesting task he has undertaken. They all concur in stating the important fact, that M. Trolé's style and pronunciation are clear and easy to be understood by those who have any knowledge of the French language; and that his subject evinces considerable research and original criticism. We understand that the Lectures are interspersed with incidental and entertaining comments upon the opinions of Lady Morgan respecting the French theatre, in her work on France. It is to be confidently hoped, that the ladies and gentlemen of Liverpool will not let slip so excellent an opportunity as that which now presents itself, of hearing the French language spoken in its utmost purity, in illustration of literary subjects of the most interesting nature. Fashions for November. To Correspondents. GEOLOGY.-The article on this subject, from the Airs Review, which we promised several weeks since, has bee repeatedly displaced by other subjects, which, although they possess less intrinsic and permanent merit, have e ephemeral claims to attention. So excellent a dissertati as that in the American Review, will lose nothing by tema rary postponement, which shall be as little protractets possible. The following note, which was intended for anothe medium of publication, is quite in place in the Kalis." cope, as the observation upon Lord Byron, which has elicited the profound remarks of our brother editor, ap peared in the Kaleidoscope of last week. EDITORIAL HYPERCRITICISM.—The following paragraph is addressed to Common Sense, in consequence of a note we have received so subscribed, inquiring if we had seen the last "little discourse" of the "fancy" editor of the Saturday's paper. The profound wiseacre of the Saturday's tary has been floundering again, owing, probably, to his habitual trick of "turning his eye" upwards, sidewise, or in any other direction except straight forwards to his object. He chuckles at the thought that he has caught us napping and it is almost a pity to cross his vanity, by showing that he has exhibited it somewhat prematurely-In our dee vations upon the auto-biography of Lord Byron, we hat week observed, that, "in many of the narratives, vis with very little to admire, much to condemn, and sy any thing which has any tendency to improve the man or the heart." We added, that "although we thus candma many of the recent publications respecting this extrendnary personage, there are many entertaining extracts to be made from them. In the last two numbers of the Kalale scope we have given some copious selections, and we stall continue for some weeks to pursue the subject; assuring or readers that nothing shall be suffered to appear which may not be perused with propriety in their own domestic cirță” Our short-sighted brother editor fancies he discovers on inconsistency on our parts, in denouncing the publication under consideration, as containing little calculated to im prove the morals or the heart, and afterwards making copious extracts from those very works in a publication, upon the moral character of which we pride ourselves. No one capable of understanding the import of ordinary language could have arrived at this conclusion. A work which is generally exceptionable in its tendency may contain many passages or incidents in which, although there may be little to improve the morals or the heart, there may be nothing which has an immoral tendency. Byron' conversations are often of this description-and his observa tions on literature, authors, and miscellaneous suhjeru, may be purused with interest, although they convey very exalted moral. Many of the most popular Novels are of this description; not excepting those ascribed to it Walter Scott, in which we never could discover any strik moral. In like manner there are many parts of the versations of Lord Byron, which, as they are wholy➡ exceptionable, and, at the same time, amusing, may vary properly be the objects of selection, by the caterer, for publication, how high soever may be its moral character. The length to which our notices to correspondents has tended, obliges us merely to state that the following munications shall be attended to,-No Fiction, Lim Cantab-L. L-W. H. B. MORNING DRESS.-Dress of fawn-coloured Thibet cloth, or English twilled cachemire; a warm and beautiful article for winter wear, falling into graceful folds, and unaffectedly displaying the elegance of form: the corsage epaulette, and sleeve, are all a la blouse; the cuff finished with three bands, and worked muslin ruffles. The skirt has five cross or bias tucks, the same width as the ceinture, which fastens behind with a plain gold buckle: collarette of richly worked deep vandykes, tied in front with a cord and tassels. The hair en grandes boucles. French bonnet of gros de Naples, of the same colour as the dress; circular broad front, with a small rouleau of shaded terry velvet, or velours epingle, let in near the edge of the brim, and round the crown, which is high and circular, and trimmed with shaded ribon to correspond, arranged in MUSIC.-The music recommended by An Amateur is thaty puffs behind; in the front is a fan-like trimming of gros de Naples, cut bias, with shaded terry velvet near the edge; the choisest flowers of the winter season are disposed between, as the scarlet fuchsia, the sweet-scented everlasting, and the China rose. Plain gold-ear drops. Embroidered blue silk shawl, and fawn-colour morocco shoes. EVENING DRESS.-Dress of white worked barege; the corsage cut bias, and ornamented at the top, which is circular, by a folding of tulle, with a gold embroidered trimming a l'antique, and a narrow tucker of fine blond; the front is also embroidered with gold, in the form of a stomacher; and a gold embroidered band round the waist corresponds with the bands that confine the long full sleeves, which are arranged in seven bouffants, and are fastened at the wrists with topaz clasps. The skirt has an elegant trimming composed of three tucks of barege, with bands of tulle cut bias, and embroidered in gold a l'antique; beneath is a bouillon of baregeen, finished with a white satin rouleau. The hair is dressed in large and separate curls, or boucles a la Francais; and on the right side is placed a cluster of rose-coloured passion-flowers, where a superb plume of white ostrich feathers is attached, and falls over to the left. Necklace and ear-rings of turquoise. White kid gloves and white satin shoes. on our list of pieces in preparation for publication Our arrangements have rendered it absolutely necessary to to postpone till next week the letter of A Friend to Drama, and lines of Juvenis. NATURAL HISTORY—The acceptable communication of sebius, of Birmingham, shall have a place next week. GYMNASIA. The length of this week's musical department has obliged us to withdraw our Gymnasia for one week. The Council of Ten's letter arrived too late to admit of inser tion, consistently with our arrangement. The Coffin, an original and true story, is reserved for our next The essay on Early Friendship shall have an immediate peri OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI.** Pais taxlilar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manner Argumement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual Volunt, with an Index and Title-page.—Its circulationrenders it a most eligible medium for Literary and Fashionable Advertisements.—Regular supplies are forwarded weekly to the Agents, viz. No. 229.-VOL. V. Men and Manners. NO. XXXII. THE PRUDENT COUNSELLOR-(CONCLUDED.) SIEM L'ESEMĪTE EN ITALIE, THE LATEST WORK OF M JOUT, (Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] Grosseto is a small town at two leagues' distance from the sea, situated in a vast plain, bounded on the east by chain of mountains; it stands on the borders of the western marsh of Castiglione. Its population consists of about 4,000 inhabitants in winter, most of whom are corndealers and agriculturists. This town is one of the granaries of Tuscany. The Bishop, a few canons living on small incomes, and the public functionaries, compose all the good society of Grosseto. Nobility is little valued there, as it is said that the greater part of the inhabitants are descended from people who were banished from Upper Tuscany by the decrees of the prince, or of the criminal This town is gloomy, dirty, and irregularly built. Its principal street is ornamented on both sides by piazzas, which are now falling to decay. All the public buildings are old, constructed of rude materials, and entirely withont symmetry. Many of the houses are built of wood, and their windows are much disfigured by patches of oiled TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1824. latine, and used to perform mass, booted and spurred, with two pistols placed on the altar before him. I have been told that the present bishop, a man of merit, and of pleasing address, receives company every night, and entertains even the French public functionaries. As he was absent when I was at Grosseto, I had not an opportunity of being introduced to him. In the beginning of June, I prepared to remove with my colleagues to a small town called Scanzano, situated in the bosom of the mountains, at about six leagues distance from Grosseto. The heat augmented daily, and had almost dried up the marsh of Castiglione,, which is about twelve leagues in circumference. The sparrows began to fall down dead from the roofs of the houses; the smell of decayed herbs, of putrid fish and insects, was diffused over the town. The inhabitants, who abandoned Groseto to retire to Sienna or the mountains, were succeeded by crowds of reapers, who came from Lombardy and the Appenines to seek employment in this pestilential country. Many of them die during the harvest; others return home, afflicted by diseases and swellings, which continue to torment them all the rest of their lives. The inhabitants of the Maremme seldom live more than forty years; at that age their blood is impoverished, and their complexion assumes a greenish yellow hue; few of them attain old age. The baths of Petriolo, thirty miles distant from Grosseto, and twenty from Sienna, bave virtue to restore their health, and prolong their existence. The water of these baths diffuses its odour a mile round: Grosseto is a fortified town; its ramparts and bastions it is green, filled with sulphur, and so hot that eggs may are overgrown with brambles three or four feet in height, be cooked in it. They are situated in a defile of the mounsovered with large shell-anails, which are found clinging tains, and surrounded by thick woods. At half a league's round their stalks from the root to the top. These little distance from the entrance of the valley, there is a spring animals furnish an abundant and favourite article of diet of mineral water, and beyond that, one of purgative water, to the inhabitants of Grosseto, who make them into soup, A miller, who lives in the neighbourhood, is entrusted or eat them baked with roots. I have seen them used with the superintendance of these baths, and is the sole Even at the tables of the wealthy, where their flavour is physician of the patients who attend them. Those of sulthought delicate and delicious. As the bad air of the phurated water are in ruins ; the others are still in a state marshes tends rather to promote than prevent the increase of nature; that is to say, their waters issue from circular of these reptiles, it is not to be feared that the capital of the holes containing about twelve tons of water, surrounded Maremme can ever perish from famine. I knew only one by brambles, nettles, and thorns, and shaded by overfrenchman who could ever be prevailed upon to eat this arching trees. The peasants of the Maremme repair fish; he devoured one morning no less than eight hun- hither for the purification of their blood. Before they fred small fricassed snails; the lieutenant of the gendar- enter the baths of sulphurated water, the miller, by means nerie of Grosseto was the hero of this courageous feat. of several lancets fastened to a small instrument in the Spring water is very scarce at Grosseto, and so much form of a German trumpet, scarifies them in different infested during the hot weather by the neighbourhood of parts of their bodies, and then covering the wounds with the marshes, that in the month of July it becomes poi- small bottles filled with fighted flax, thus extracts from sonous, and occasions fevers and swellings of the most them a considerable quantity of black blood. After this fatal description. I lodged and boarded with a M. Ceudi, operation has been repeated a certain number of times, an honest agriculturist and corn-dealer, in moderately the patients go to complete their cure at the purgative good circumstances. His table was furnished with white baths. Some of them return home in an improved state wines from the neighbouring mountains, excellent turtle of health, and willingly return the following year to unsoups, game, fowl, and fresh and salt-water fish. He dergo the same process, so powerful is the love of existence often regaled me with a sort of soup, exquisite to an un-even in the Maremme. paper. PRICE 3d efficiency of the water, that the use of three baths, each three quarters of an hour in length, is thought sufficient for the cure of the most inveterate itch. The miller, for the reward of ten or twelve pence, prepares the bath the evening before it is used. This is done by first stopping up the pipes by which the water flows out, until the bath is filled, and then intercepting its source. The superfluous heat evaporates during the night-time, and the fol owing morning the water is of a suitable temperature, and covered with a green scale easily broken by the body of thebather. Two upright stones, placed on each side of a wooden bridge, near the baths of Petriolo, are marked with inscriptions, one of which is indicative of the limite of the lower province and that of Sienna, the other of the distance between Sienna and Grosseto. A little to the left of the extremity of the bridge, which is of about half the length of the Pont des Arts at Paris, there is a sort of monument, in carved stone, bearing two inscriptions al most illegible. One of them records the visit of a Duke of Urbano to the baths of Petriolo: the date is anterior to the union of the Duchy of Urbano with the states of St. Peter, effected in the beginning of the seventeenth cen tury by the Pope and poet Urban the Eighth. We arrived soon afterwards at an old chapel fronted by a small gallery, of which the exterior wall bears the following inscription: "Pius P. P. II. creatus. anno. M. CCCC. LVIII. die 19..A gusti. Hic. stetit. de. mse. mai. ponti, sui. anno. p. e. mse Octo bris. ponti. sui. anno. v°." This pope succeeded Calisto the Third in 1458. Before he ascended the papal chair he wrote against Pope Eu genius the Fourth. The Emperor Frederic the Third had made him poet Laureat, but he was still more celebrated for the hatred he bore the Turks, against whom he vainly attempted several times to league all the Christian powers of Europe. He died at Ancona, in 1464, just as he was on the point of embarking to lead his troops against the Mahometans, the baths of Petriolo not having been able to cure the bitterness of his hatred against the Ottomans The baths are surrounded by a tolerably high wall, in the left angle of which I observed an ancient ruined tower. The space within is of sufficient extent to contain fifty habitations, but it is much infested by snakes, and other poisonous animals, and presents nothing but ruins, fragments of broken walls, dry wells, clumps of trees and brambles, and heaps of stories and rotten wood. It in traversed by the high road from Grosseto to Sienna, which passes though a large gate in the north-east part of the wall, at about two hundred paces distance from one in the prejudiced palate, though generally thought detestable by The baths of sulphurated water of Petriolo were origin-east, which is now no longer used. A small door in the the French. It is made of bread, fine olive oil, raisins, ally constructed with much care. They consist of three west, parallel with the reservoir of sulphurated water, lemon juice, and cloves. basins, contained in so many isolated buildings, covered leads to the water-mill built on the Farma, at the foot of The churches and dome of Grosseto are not remark-with vaulted roofs. The waters are emptied from these the neighbouring mountain. able; the seat of the bishop is hollowed out from the basins, by means of four large pipes, into a small river, Wainscot wood of the choir, on the right hand side, and rudely carved. The Bishop of this town, a suffragan of the bishop of Sienna, had formerly the title of Count Pa called the Farma, which takes its source near Sienna. There are no remarkable plants in the enclosure of the baths. I observed there several greyish-white stones, of rather a coarse grain, which, I was told, were a species of asbestos, but they did not appear to me to be of that na ture. On both sides of the road leading from Grosseto to agitated to such a degree, that he would probably have a little room over the gate-way; and to mistake the clapfainted away, if his friend had not been near to receive ping of a labouring man for applause, from my own poor, him in his arms; but, seeing that the latter was too intent delicate, little hands." A most beautifully shaped, and on the choristers and incense-bearers, he thought it more exquisitely small hand was, at the same time, put into evi advisable to keep upon his legs, and to make a further use dence at the spot of communication; and had this beer of them, by following the fair lady, in order to learn done a few moments before, Alberto would have been where she lived. In this he succeeded; and, as it en- quite in a trance: but now he was no longer in a mood for admiration. He continued to support his assumed character with great difficulty, and dismissed the fair pe nitent in the most sulky manner, and without absolution. His love was now suddenly changed into hatred and fury; but as the latter abated, the former would probably have given way too; and he would, perhaps, have renewed his addresses in a more acceptable manner, if the fair lady had not disappeared, after the declaration of her senti ments. It was soon ascertained that she must have left the town, although no traces of her new residence could be discovered. There remained, then, no other consola. tion than that of seeking oblivion of his sorrows in the company of those idlers who are to be found in every large town, and who are always ready to assist new comers in the squandering of their money. The Mayor of Pari, with whom I lodged, had pur-abled him to watch her ingress and egress, he contrived to chised the whole territory of Petriolo, and had formed the design of repairing the basins, and of constructing convenient accommodations for bathers. If these baths were in the neighbourhood of Paris, the fortune of their proprietor would soon become immense; but the soil over which they flow is unwholesome, and the air breathed in these valleys is so pernicious, that in a few days it would occasion either death or the most loathsome diseases. We never remained at the baths more than two hours a day. Liverpool. A. W. THE FORTUNE HUNTERS. FROM THE GERMAN OF OEHLENSCHLÆGER, BY L, MAN, OF LIVERPOOL. [Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] [Continued from our lust.] Having conceived an aversion for music, the ci-devant singer had resolved to become a painter: but he was rather nice in the selection of a subject for his pencil, and he would not throw away his talents, so long as he did not meet with suitable models for the exercise of his art. Now he saw, just before him, what he had never seen in such perfection, viz. a blooming maiden of about eighteen years of age; whose black ringlets were divided on her brow, like those of the Madonna; tears of deep emotion trickled from her sparkling eyes over her rosy cheeks; the snowy whiteness of her arms and hands appeared to particular advantage, as she lifted them up in her devotional fervour; and the elegance of her figure became remarkably conspicuous by the grace with which she reclined backwards; whilst her kneeling position made but just protrude the prettiest little foot that had ever been concealed by long garments. place himself so close to her the next time she made her In order to make security doubly sure, he now addressed Trembling with anxiety, Alberto held his listening ear to the opening; and his breath nearly forsook him when he actually heard the seraphic voice of his adored. She Alberto gazed at the lovely creature in breathless had but one sin to confess since her last appearance in the amazement: this was the being destined to realize his day-confessional, and that he flattered himself could be of no dreams of unequalled beauty, and to make his paintings less interesting nature than love for him: he so far presuperior to all others. He vowed never to lose sight of so served his presence of mind, as to encourage the timid charming an object; but, at the very same moment, the maiden, by the apt introduction of a sanctified sentence, issuing crowd pressed so hard upon him, that he was to an entire confidence in her spiritual father; and the swept away to a great distance, before he could make transaction then actually proceeded as follows:-"Ah! another reflection. He kept his eyes steadfastly rivetted reverend father, it is all about a young man, who comes on the attractive spot, from which he had been forced; daily to this place, and who is in love with me." "Fear but all his endeavours to reach it again were fruitless, nothing, my daughter;" cried the confessor, "love is a since he was lifted from the ground, and carried on the sacred passion; our whole religion is founded upon love; shoulders of the surrounding multitude. Reduced to de- and we are expressly enjoined to love one another :spair by this untoward circumstance, he made a last speak, my daughter! open thy whole heart before me: effort to extricate himself; but it only served to deprive thou sayest that the young man loves thee!" "I am him of his comparatively advantageous situation; and he not quite sure whether my swain feels real love or not, would, undoubtedly, have been trampled to death, if for he is a great fool." Alberto felt as if a bucket of cold Xaviero, who happened to be close behind him, had not water had just been poured over him; and he was very supported him with all the power of his vigourous arms. near forgetting his part. "How then?" he exclaimed, Thus he reached the square, before the church, without hast thou not encouraged him with sighs and with smiles? either hat or shoes; and when he felt for his watch, he thou impious woman.' "Alas, alas! I confess my guilt; found that it was gone too: yet, what were such losses, and this is what constitutes my crime: I was amused with compared to the loss of his incognita! He fretted and the poor man's folly; and this was certainly very wrong foamed; but all to no purpose: his only chance of meet- in so holy a place." "Ha! and hast thou not also foling with her again was to become a frequent church-lowed the same course out of the temple? thou wicked goer; and, although his researches were long continued Magdalen! I know the gallant youth; and he has conin vain, he did succeed, at last, in tracing her to her fafided every thing to me: hast thou not listened to his nocvourite place of devotion. She wore now a coloured dress, turnal songs? and, hast thou not applauded them ?" instead of the black one in which he had first seen her; "Ah, me! my reverend father, my youthful gaiety made and she appeared even more charming than before; but me take pleasure in depriving him of his nightly rest; she was earnestly engaged in her prayers, so long as the and I paid our ostler to sit up for him and applaud: but service lasted, and she withdrew as soon as it was over, you see what a simpleton he must be, to fancy that a without even casting a glance at her admirer, who became daughter, or a near relation of the house, would sleep in Honest Xaviero was easily drawn into the vortex, h which his friend endeavoured to solace himself; and he spent his time merrily amongst his new acquaintances There was but one thing that occasionally disturbed in good humour; and that was, their everlasting conversetions about love affairs. The gentlemen to whom he had been introduced, could all boast of having gone through various adventures of the kind; and his own friend, Alberto, had soon learned to cure himself radically of his love for the fair incognita, by forming connexions with ladies of more easy access: whenever, therefore, any se cial parties were proposed, at which the presence of fe males might be desirable, every one (except himself) was provided with a companion of the fair sex; and he felt greatly distressed at his loneliness, without being able to remedy it to his own satisfaction. His kind friends had, indeed, frequently offered to provide for him, but he was rather particular in that respect, and would have no communication but with a strictly modest woman, of whose sincere love for him he could be firmly convinced. It was the more difficult to obtain satisfactory proofs of these two essential points, as the good Xaviero was extremely reserved and timid with regard to the fairer part of mankind: he scarcely ever looked at a female, unless he thought her engaged with something that prevented her from noticing him; and he always averted his eyes in confusion, if they happened to encounter hers. This evil was not a little increased by his being extremely shortsighted, and unable to distinguish objects without getting into almost absolute contact with them, which was, course, not practicable with the ladies, particularly for * man of his modesty. His attentions had, nevertheless, been attracted by an object which filled his soul with is light, and which absorbed all minor ideas. Alberto dered to see him become remarkably thoughtful, still more, to detect him now and then indulging in a stifled sigh: he inquired into the cause, and, after a long protracted research, it was found that love,-genuine,thsophisticated love, had made this dreadful inroad upon happiness. It was some time before the particulars of the case were brought to light; for the poor sufferer could ole state that he was deeply smitten with a fair damsel, who he daily saw as he passed before a certain window, ad whose blue eyes and rosy lips surpassed all that he had ever seen in his life: he did not altogether like her pred lection for a seat near the window; and he could a wish that she would not change her head-dress quite often as she did; but, in other respects, he was m pleased with her behaviour; since he found her alway steady at her place, and, apparently, looking straight be fore her; not giddily turning her head in all directions to criticise the passengers; or running to and fro in coquettish manner. Alberto was rather curious to see the beloved of his companion, and withal a little jealous o |