The rule expressed in words is as follows:
Multiply the square of the diameter of the piston by the
length of the stroke in feet, and by the effective pressure of 45, p=10lb. d=9 inches, 2 feet, and T = 1001b; then
the steam in pounds upon each square inch, and divide by the
72900
26 miles per hour nearly. A single wheel
diameter of the wheel in feet.
2800

he mode of action, of a power; and the mean resulting in one instance by experiment, and it will be nearly the same the American government had ever granted a patent.

MUSICAL CRITICISM.

TO THE EDITOR.

swers to the queries of an Amateur of Newry, contained
in your Kaleidoscope of the 18th instant.

To the first query, “Can there be a succession of disSIR,-As the musical queries contained in the last num- cords," I answer yes; and in support of the assertion, I ber but one of the Kaleidoscope remain unanswered, I pre-refer your correspondent to the well known sequences of 7 sume to send you a few opinions on the subject, which you and 2, with all their modifications and inversions. are at liberty to use, should you consider them of sufficient importance. Yours, &c.

AN AMATEUR.-Liverpool.

To the second query, “Can F✯ be used for Gb," I also answer yes; because, taking itgra for nted that your correspondent is correct in assigning "Bb" as the fundaThe first is, "Can there, in any composition, be a suc- mental bass of the passage quoted, "Gb A and C" form cession of discords ?" an appoggiatural chord, resolving itself respectively into Most certainly; and I trust immediately to prove this," FA and D" of the chord succeeding, where, if "G" if any proof be necessary. For this purpose, I have selec- be the appoggiatural note proper to "F," it follows, that ted a passage from Bishop's ballad, "He is all the world to Bbb (not A) is the appoggiatural note proper to "A;" me," which, with respect to the points in question, very but, if A (on account of its less remote affinity to the key closely resembles the example given: and, to show this of E) may be taken as the appoggiatural note to "A" resemblance more clearly, I have transposed it into the it follows that F✯ may be taken also as the appoggiatural same key. It is as follows: note to "F," as the relations between themselves and the passages they form are parallel. Besides, as "F" had been used in the chord next but one preceding that in which the "Gb" occurs, and in the same part of the harmony, I should prefer its use to that of "Gb," because the eye and the ear are thus prepared for the note, which must, for effect, be the same in pitch, however it may be written.

bb

The only essential difference in these two examples is, that, in that by Bishop, the B in the bass is continued until the final close on the tonic, thereby making the chord of the dominant complete; while in the other example, the want of this, renders the harmony weak and inaccurate. Should Amateur still entertain any doubts as to the propriety of using successive discords, it is hoped the authority of Hadyn will remove them. The following is an extract from his celebrated canzonet" Lubin is away."

Amateur then says, "There is a succession of discords here, as B is the fundamental bass note." The latter would certainly have become a discord, by having B for its bass; but the other is a discord independently, admitting of B, not as a fundamental, but as a pedal bass.

He next asks, "Could the author have substituted FX for Gb?" This is a point on which I think theorists will be found to differ, some considering it allowable, and others, denying that it can be done. That Gb is better, will hardly, I humbly conceive, be doubted; for, as such, it may appear as part of the chord of the subdominant, and, consequently, bear a much nearer affinity to the key than it otherwise would. This, I am aware is not the only light in which it may be considered as G b; it may retain the same character if we call the chord F.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-May I trouble you to insert the following, as an

I am of opinion that the FUNDAMENTAL BASS of
the two chords quoted is formed of F dominant of Bb,
succeeded by Bb dominant of the key-note; and
that Bb, which ought, for the sake of correctness in
writing, to have continued throughout the bar, is merely
a PEDAL BASS. With this view then of the bass, there
is no doubt of G being the correct note; but I am not
sure that such writers as Haydn would not use "
its substitute, for the reasons given in the preceding para-
F*" as
graph, or for that which led Haydn to write A and B
in the same chord, in different parts of his score of "The
heavens are telling the glory of God."

29. It is Pallas (Palace.)

30. Because he is a quadrangular (quod wrangler) that
is, a wrangler in quod or prison!!!

[Since we published the solution to the 22d conundrum
in the last Kaleidoscope, we have been favoured with another
solution, which is much better, although the author we
suspect is a wag. The question asked "Why is a lady
curling her hair like a housebreaker ?"-to which our
new correspondent replies, "Because she disturbs the
inmates."]
NEW CONUNDRUMS. .
BY BATHOS.

31. Why is a crooked nail, driven fast into a wall, like
one of our excellent public charities?
32. Why are prisoners working in the tread-wheel like
disinterested patriots?

THE IRISH GIRL.

THE PROLOGUE TO BE SPOKEN BY MR. RYLEY,
After which the Farce of

BON TON;

OR, HIGH LIfe above stAIRS.

The Part of Sir John Trotly, by Ma RILET. No. 10, Basnet-street, corner of Williams-are: at the Tickets to be had of Mr. Ryley, at Mr. Goore's Lodgings, Waterloo Hotel, York Hotel, Saddle Inn, Turf Tavern, Stai speare Tavern, and Red Lion, Mersey-street. A plan of the Boxes may be seen at Mrs. Goore's, Straw-bonnet Stop, corner of Williamson-square.

To Correspondents.

RESERVE COMMUNICATIONS.-The following are in tera

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our next:-A Musical Piece-Letter II. from
Devotee, on Capital Punishment-Letter II on the Battle
tonian System-Letter on the newly-advanced mechanist
paradox, connected with locomotive machines, and u
graving, the communication of T. H. T. of Fairfiel-Da
translation of Eruditionis Amator-Notices of Liverpo
former times-Lines by Cestriensis, of Chester-Lines by
Y. Z.-Lines by Medicius-Lines by J. Land the ca
nication of R. of Newry.

ERRATUM-In the lines on "Heaven," in the last vi
leidoscope, page 248, fifth stanza, line sixth, ir "We"|
blindly, &c. read "Man" blindly, &c.
MUSIC. In consequence of our intimation in a late
we have been favoured from several quarters with di
a copy of the song, "When I heard the roaring oce
We feel obliged to the gentlemen who have thus exp
their readiness to oblige us. We shall not fall to eval
selves in due time of their politeness; although we
immediately call upon them to furnish us with a copy
have several musical pieces in reserve, which claim pr
of insertion. The song which we inquired after it
good, and as it is out of print, it appears to us to beling
that class of musical pieces which we can revive wh
vantage to our musical readers, without injury to the
ers in printed music, with whose fair profits we have ma
tention to interfere. There are very many beautiful
and other pieces which, although they are out of pris
infinitely superior in merit to many of the popular
of the day. Some of these it is our intention to re
and the song to which we have alluded is one of the
ber.

T. F. of Gloucester-street, will please to accept our tha

the loan of some books.

The Swiss Music is pleasing; but we understand th
original contains more parts, which we hope to o
M. N. of Stoke Newington, London, is informed that
shall insert the proffered communication, if we ca
in deciphering the whole of the manuscript, d
we have, however, some doubts at present, especia
criss-cross passage.
MUSICAL CORRESPONDENTS.-We had prepared

note, addressed to S. N.-W. SS. S.-G. S.
Newry, explaining our views respecting the s

music which we shall introduce into the Kalcid arrangements have rendered it necessary to within note; but we shall next week resume the subject. The letter of Detector, on Mr. Greaves's report, respecting

roads, will be given in the Mercury.

SHAKSPEARE AND LORD BYRON.-The interesting article
specting the original editor of Shakspeare; and that the
the Westminster Review, respecting Lord Byron, have
us to withdraw several communications we had prep
and which shall appear next week.
The Song by S. S. of Manchester, is very acceptable.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.-We may probably, in our next
some extracts from, and remarks upon this work.
FIRE.-We shall next week lay before our readers the
suggestion of C. on this important subject.
The verses of Jerry shall not be deferred beyond next

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BY M. ALEX. B.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1825.

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part of the town, it would have occasioned great destruc- | the height of the walls; in some places, they had even tion among the common houses. But its fury being appeased, on the 4th of May, it continued to flow only in small currents, which were principally directed towards Na legère couche de vie, qui fleurit à la surface du globe, ne the sea. It has demolished, in the upper country, about sere que des ruines.

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fourteen towns and villages, some of which were not in-
considerable, and contained three or four thousand in-

ranslated expressly for the Kaleidoscope from a recent French habitants: it has also extended to a pleasant and fertile
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LETTER VI.-CONTINUATION OF VOLCANOES.

ERUPTION OF ETNA IN 1669.

Melarticulars given by some English merchants, extracted

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from the Philosophical Transactions.)

country, never before laid waste by an eruption. No
traces remain of the existence of these towns, except a
church and a steeple, which stood upon a small eminence,
separate from the other buildings.

We ascended, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, to a high tower, at Catana, which commanded a view of the crater of the volcano: the mass of fire issuing from it was a terrible spectacle. The following morning we wished to visit this crater; but we dared not approach nearer than to the distance of a furlong from it, lest by a change of wind we should be enveloped in some portion of the immense column of ashes, which rose from it, and which appeared to us, twice as thick as the steeple of St. Paul's, in London, and of an infinitely greater height. The atmosphere around was entirely filled with the most subtile parts of these ashes; and, from the beginning of the eruption to the end (during fifty-four days) neither sun nor stars were visible, in any part of the country, adjacent to the mountain.

The matter, thrown out in this eruption, is composed of different species of minerals, liquified in the entrails of the earth, by the action of the fire; it bubbles and foams like the source of a great river. When the liquid mass The sky appeared black during eighteen days before has flowed over the space of a stone-throw or more, its eruption; there were frequent concussions of the extremity begins to grow solid, and to be covered with a h, accompanied by thunder and lightning, of which crust, which when it is cold, forms those hard and porous most alarming accounts were diffused by the people. stones, called by the inhabitants, sciarri. It then assumes We not, however, heard that these shocks overturned the form of a collection of enormous burning coals, slowly edifice, except a small village called Nicolasi, situated rolled over one another; when it meets any obstacle, it bout half a mile's distance from the new crater, and a ascends by collecting itself in a heap, overturning by its small houses in the villages to which the fire after-weight, edifices of an ordinary size, and consuming all Is extended. It had been remarked that the ancient combustible substances. The torrent generally moved er, on the summit of Etna, had discharged more flames forwards, without deviating from a direct line; but it also ausual during the three or four preceding months; extended laterally, as water does, when it flows over level se emitted at Volcan and Stromboli, twe burning ground, and formed different branches, or tongues, as they ads, situated to the west of Etna, had also been ob- are called in this country. red considerably to augment, and it was perceived that summit of Etna had sunk into its ancient crater. In all who have before seen this mountain, agree that elevation is much diminished at this period. "he first eruption took place on the 11th of March, 9, two hours before sunset, on the south eastern deity of the mountain, about twenty miles below the ent crater, and ten miles from Catana. It was at reported, that the current of burning lava traversed ee miles in twenty-four hours; but having, on the 5th April, visited a place within a mile's distance from tana, we perceived that it advanced hardly a furlong a day: it continued to move with the same degree of acity during fifteen or twenty days, passing near the ds of Catana, and penetrating to a considerable disce into the sea. But, towards the end of this month, at the beginning of May, whether it was, that the a resisted the further progress of the matter, or that the slcano discharged a larger quantity of it, it turned its e towards the town; and, having been heaped up to e height of the walls, formed a passage over them, in veral places. Its fury fell chiefly upon a very pretty invent of Bernardino, ornamented with spacious gardens, d other grounds, between the house and the wall of the wn. The burning lava, having filled up this space, dicted all its force against the edifice; it experienced a restance which it caused to ascend very high, a consequence at always ensued, whenever its passage was interrupted Fany obstacle. Some parts of the building entirely gave ay, and sunk nearly a foot, as it appeared by the prosction of the bricks towards the middle of the wall, and y the bending of the pieces of iron fastened across it. It certain, that if this torrent had fallen upon any other

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A quantity of stones, of moderate size, fell from the sides of this column; we could not distinguish whether or not they were burning, neither was it possible for us to see the source of the torrent of fire, on account of a large bank of ashes immediately in front of us. A noise, like distant thunder, or like the roaring of the waves when they are dashed against the rocks, proceeded from the orifice, whence issued the fire and ashes. This sound has, more than once, reached me when I have been at Messina, which is sixty miles distant, and situated at the foot of a chain of high mountains. It has even been heard a hundred miles north of the volcano, in Calabria, where ashes have also been seen to fall. Some of our seamen have related, that the decks of their vessels were covered with them, although, probably, the layer was not very thick.

passed over them. The first night of our arrival, a new current of fire issued from among some sciarri, upon which we had been walking an hour or two before, and which were level with the height of the walls; it flowed into the town, forming a small stream of fire, about three feet broad, and nine feet long, and consolidating itself into sciarri at its extremities. This current was extinct the next morning, although it had covered with sciarri a wide space before vacant. The following evening, a much stronger current was discovered, precipitating itself from another part of the wall into the ditch of the castle. We learned that this stream continued to flow during several days after our departure. There were, at the same time, other currents of lava, which bent their course towards the sea.

Having passed two days near Catana, we returned towards the crater, where there was no longer any danger to be apprehended from the fire, or ashes; we thence clearly discovered the ancient and new channels of lava, and the enormous heap of ashes which had been discharged in the course of the eruption. We saw a triangular space, of about two leagues in extent, which appeared to be the ancient bed or channel of fire; the bot tom of it was covered with sciarri, and the surface incrustated with sulphur; it was bordered on each side by a large bank of ashes, and the new summit rose behind it. It seems that the fire had passed between these two banks. In the upper corner, upon a small elevation of sciarri, there was a hole, about six feet broad, whence it is probable that the fire issued; there must have been several of these holes, which have since been incrustated over, or filled up with ashes. The fire was seen to flow at the bottom of this hole; and, lower down we discovered, through a cleft in the bed of sciarri, the burning metal flowing beneath it. The surface of this current appeared to be about a fathom broad, though it was probably broader below, as the channel was widened towards the bottom. We could not measure its breadth, because it was impenetrable to instruments of iron. We were desirous of procuring some of this matter at the source, but it was impossible to make any incision in it: perhaps there were some currents, consisting of a softer substance. A sulphurous smoke, by which some persons of our company narrowly escaped being suffocated, issued from this channel, particularly from the large hole above. A column of smoke or ashes arose, every quarter of an hour, from the centre of the new summit; but it was, by no means, equal in magnitude to that already mentioned.

The last time that we were at Catana, the inhabitants

were occupied in barricading certain streets and passages, through which it was presumed that the fire would pass : they demolished for that purpose the old houses in the neighbourhood, and heaped up the dry loose stones in the form of a wall, supposing that they resisted the fire better when there was no lime amongst them.

It is said that the lava has advanced a mile into the sea, and that it is at least a mile in breadth at its extremity: it was much less extensive when we were there. The scaTowards the middle of May, we returned to Catana. shore declines with a gradual slope; the water is about The appearance of things was then much changed: five fathoms in depth at the extremity of the sciarri, which sciarri were amassed round three-fourths of the town, to rise about two fathoms and a half above it.

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tide.

The surface of the water was so warm at the distance of more than twenty feet from these currents of fire, that it was impossible to hold the hand in it; it was, however, much cooler lower down. The sciarri preserved their heat under the water, as we perceived at the ebb of the The general appearance of these sciarri is like that presented by flakes of ice amassed upon a river, during a hard frost in some places they resemble a rugged heap of flocks of wool; but their colour is quite different: they are, for the most part, of a deep blue, and inclose large stones and rocks, which are closely united with them.

But, notwithstanding their roughness, and the fire that we saw shining through the clefts, we ventured to cross a Large part of them. It is said that this has often been done during the greatest violence of the eruption; for whilst the burning and moving part of these sciarri, or currents of fire, is so hard and impenetrable that they support the greatest weights, their surface is so cold, that when it is touched, the fire within is not perceptible, unless, indeed, the intervening part be not sufficiently thick. It was curious to observe the slow motion of this great river : when it approached a house, there was time not only to carry away the furniture, but even to remove the tiles, beams, and all other moveable parts of the building. I shall add, that all the country, to the distance of twenty miles from Catana, is covered with the sciarri ejected in former eruptions, though no one remembers any eruption so violent as the last, or which took place in so low a part of the mountain. Notwithstanding that, the country is well cultivated, and very populous, whether it be that time has softened the old sciarri, or that they have been covered by a lighter soil. There still remain many districts which, most probably, will never be made productive.

The current of burning lava is now nearly seventeen miles in length, and about three miles in breadth.

Literature, Criticism, &c.

ON THE HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR.

dern Greek gamma and chi. Perhaps they are latent in
other sounds, like fire in flint, or aqua fortis in saltpetre;
or they may, possibly, have been congealed in some great
frost, like the conversation of Sir John Mandeville's crew
at Nova Zembla. However, if Mr. Hamilton can make
out English representatives for those aliens, and about as
many more with which I can furnish him from the He-
brew, Arabic, and Persian, I for one shall rejoice at his
success, for I am very partial to my native tongue, and
shall be truly happy to learn that it is possessed of powers
and comprehensiveness which I never dreamt of. It would
be frivolous and unprofitable to debate whether our th is
a simple sound or not. I think it would rather surprise a
Spaniard to hear that his soft c and z are not simple, but
compound sounds. These are, however, in most provinces,
pronounced exactly like our th, and I could tell Mr. Ha-
milton of six or seven other languages wherein this sound
is expressed by a single letter of the alphabet. I do not
clearly understand what is meant by saying, that the
French and Germans do not pronounce the above sounds,
"because they are not taught." It is not surprising that
their mothers and nurses do not teach them, seeing that
they cannot utter it themselves; but how comes it that we
Englishmen find it so difficult to help them over this
stumbling-block? Perhaps it is because we do not set
about it on Hamiltonian principles.

It would be heresy to question Mr. H.'s perfect acquaint.
ance with ancient classical literature; but it seems there
are many things relating to it which he does not kn
In return for what he has taught me, I will communica
a little piece of news to him, namely, that many gramman
and lexicons, written by the authors to whom I alluded, are
still extant, and well known to the critics. When Mr. H.
next goes to examine his Cambridge classes, he may find
the college libraries a Greek grammar bylApollonius Dy
colus, a whole collection of ancient Latin ones edited by
Putschius, a Lexicon Homericun of Apollonius, another
lexicon by Julius Pollux-cum multus aliis, which I would
civilly request him to examine, and then to favour us
with his opinion of their contents. I fear he would disco-
ver that the authors were totally ignorant of the merits of
the Hamiltonian system, and that their productions are
not a whit better than the "trash" which is crammed
down our throats by their successors of the present day.
4. If I rightly understand Mr. H.'s explanation of the
dishonesty and deceit of giving a word two meanings-one
of which is right-it seems to shew that a thing may be
true and false at the same moment; and that if a man
who owes me a shilling pays me two, one good and the
other bad, I ought indignantly to reject them both. Last
any one deficient in " sagacity or candour” should be
startled at this doctrine (which to me is at least as dar
2. "Cato and Cicero never saw a grammar; first, be- that" il y a" are not three words, but one), we will try
cause none existed, and secondly, because if they did ex- to confirm it by a familiar illustration :-Suppose one of
ist, grammars are not the place in which they would have Mr. H.'s Liverpool pupils were to set out for Warrington,
studied it." (what?) We may here observe, that Mr. and to find, after passing through Prescot, two roads-ger
Hamilton says nothing about glossaries or vocabularies.to the right, and another to the left-he night, acording
If no such things existed in Cato's time, I suppose he was to this new system of logic, reason thus,—“ Onlyard
enabled to talk of them, and call them by their names by these can be the proper road to Warrington, the
a spirit of prophecy, or some faculty analogous to the se- both equally deceive; for though one may pa
cond sight of the Highlanders. Whether Cicero ever saw right, yet, with regard to my proposed journey, mak
any thing constructed like our Eton and Westminster to be so, because there is another adjoining to it which i
grammars, or not, is a point that I will not contend for; wrong. I will, therefore, carefully avoid both, and p
but I think it may be proved that he saw, read, and ap- back to Liverpool." A conclusion truly Hamiltonia
proved of certain grammatical treatises of nearly the same and if our traveller acted upon it, it is clear that he
tendency. In my former letter I alluded to two books, get to the end of his journey as infallibly, as he wa
"de Analogia," written by Julius Cæsar (we are not in-acquire a perfect knowledge of Greek, in fifty lessons,
formed whether he was Grand Master of the Templars or
not.) Now, as Mr. Hamilton undertakes to make his

pupils perfect in Latin, it would be absurd to suppose
that he himself has not repeatedly read over all the Latin
authors. As, however, their works are pretty voluminous,
it may possibly have escaped his recollection that Cicero,
Brutus," mentions the above
in his dialogue entitled "
work of Cæsar with great distinction, and, moreover, in-

an hour each.

5. As Mr. Hamilton seems mightily out of hum SIR,-Allow me, through the medium of your valuable with the French sentence about the loaves and fida (which I fancied to be things quite to his taste) miscellany, to thank Mr. Hamilton for condescending to happy to inform him that it is not of my own mand notice my humble tribute to the merits of his system. As from some marks of spleen displayed in his letter, I fear ture, but copied, verbatim et literate, from a French tament, printed at Geneva in the year 1653. I can that he regards me as nothing better than an enemy in disguise, I hasten to correct this unfavourable impression, forms us, that it was dedicated or addressed to himself the obnoxious phrase "qu'est ce DE cela" in old W over assure him, that he may find numerous instanc by the assurance that I look upon him as a gentleman not of common sagacity and attainments, and his method of Many fragments of this work are still extant, and I do not especially those of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuris teaching as a most extraordinary system. He has not, in- know whether pity or disdain will predominate in Mr. Mr. Hamilton, however, says it is not French, and In deed, gratified my curiosity on all points, particularly Hamilton's breast, when he is informed, that the illus-pose we must take his word for it,-Rabelais, Most about the Monks, whom he now seems somewhat shy of trious author took the frivolous pains to teach his readers and all their contemporaries, to the contrary, b introducing. This I rather regret, for the truly dramatic how to decline pollen, pollinis, Samnis, Samnitis, &c.; in standing. I think itis pretty obvious, that my re representation which he gave us of the manner in which short, that it actually consisted of rules for declensions, the passage was not meant to be good sense, or gadg those worthy gentlemen were led to invent vocabularies genders, and conjugations, or, in other words, was com-lish, but only according to Hamiltonian prisjak and grammars, was certainly one of the most striking fea-posed of much the same materials as our Accidence, Protures of his lecture, and I should be sorry if any thing pria quæ maribus, and As in præsenti! Shame upon that I have said should induce him to omit it for the fu. Cæsar for writing, and on Cicero and Quintilian for ture. However, though he maintains an oracular silence commending, such “trash” as this! on this topic, I feel duly thankful for the novel and important information he has furnished upon others. Some doubts still remain upon my mind, which I will propound in the order suggested by Mr. H.'s letter, and I question not that he, or some of his friends, will be able to furnish a candid and satisfactory solution.

1, "The simple sounds of all languages are the same,"

was, in fact, made in humble imitation of M

rendering of "les ténébres ne l'ont point reçue"
one of his papers is translated, "the darknesse
not received it." I freely admit that Mr. H
is, upon the whole, better than mine, because the
less of it.

3. “Grammarians then taught elocution, correct and elegant speaking, rhetoric, philosophy." So they fre quently did. But they also taught the inflexions, governIn conclusion, I cannot but commend Mr. B. ment, and construction of words, and were so far gramma-dence in keeping out of the kitchen, where he aught ha rians in our sense of the term, just as an apothecary is not got into hot water, or burnt his fingers. I leave hi less an apothecary because he also practises as accoucheur justify his contempt of cookery to Dr. Kitchiner and and surgeon. Any body, who doubts whether they con- editor of L'Almanac des Gourmands as well as he ca It follows, I suppose, from this, that all the simple sounds descended so far, may find ample proof of it in Quintilian, but I hope he will excuse my thinking, that a m and the Nocles Attice of Aulus Gellius. What Apollonius Dyscolus and his fifty brethren were, or were not, is not a point to be decided by Mr. H.'s assertions-ness of the word peoples, I can satisfy Mr. H. that there (though they undoubtedly go very far")—but by evidence. is a precedent for using it. Rev. x. 11, "Thou must prep again before many peoples." Compare chap. xvi. 15 Mr. H. produce equally respectable authority for b

of all other languages exist in our own. Now, I must confess, that after all my researches, I cannot discover any English equivalents for at least half a score sounds in other European languages, among which may be mentioned, the French u, the Portuguese nasal n, and m, the Spanish j anda, the German g, gutteral, and the mo

* Some captious people may perhaps think that they occa

sionally go rather too far.

Without meaning to vindicate the elegance or s

nesses?

Mr. MEDWIN in his own person.

when a particular hard day or indeed any regularly-named
was expected, a chapter was members of any order-some
held; the crane was filled with dresses were sent from a mas-
claret, and, in imitation of the querade warehouse, but not
Goths of old, passed about to black no chapter was held or
the gods of the consistory, talked of the dresses were
whilst many a prime joke was never put on more than once
cut at its expense.'-pp. 88, 89. or twice-and many a primetioned, and after he had praised
joke was not cut at the ex-
pense of the skull.

The truth has been already 'I afterwards had reason to discovered respecting this ode think that the ode was Lord on the death of Sir John Byron's; that he was piqued Moore, and those who knew at none of his own being men- Lord Byron will appreciate the vulgar speculation as to the the verses so highly, could not reason of his concealing his being the author of the poem. own them."* pp. 167, 168.

Those who knew Lord Byron will detect at once the Mr. MEDWIN'S LORD BYRON vulgarisins of the pretended conversation. The story, as dressed up for sale, is a fiction. A long circumstantial story nina by its sanguinary Rajah, is here told by the pretended Lord Byron, which is detected that, &cp. 119. at once by one word. The real Lord Byron could never have talked of the Rajah of Zanina (Joannina.) In Hindostan a Rajah is a prince, in European Turkey a rayah is a tributary subject. Those indeed, acquainted with Lord Byron's style of conversation, would, without this silly blunder, defect the imposition at

I wrote to him from Venice,
which might have seemed an
idle display of vanity; but the
object of my writing it was,
to contradict what Turner
had asserted, about the impos
sibility of crossing the Helles
pont from the Abydos to the
Sestos side, in consequence of
the tide. One is as easy as the
other; we did both.'-pp. 168,
169.

"We were to have under-
taken this feat some time be-
fore, but put it off in eonse-
quence of the coldness of the

"When I was at Athens, This story immediately fol-water.'-p. 170. there was an edict in force si- lows the other, and is got up milar to that of Ali's, except with similar accuracy; that the mode of punishment other contradiction is neceswas different; it was necessary than to mention, that the sary therefore that all love girl whose life Lord Byron affairs should be carried on saved at Athens was not an with the greatest privacy. I object of his Lordship's attachwas very fond at that time of a ment-but of that of his Lord. Turkish girl-ay, fond of her ship's Turkish servant. as I have been of few women.'