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AN ALTERATION FROM THE GRECIAN LYRIC ODES OF PINDAR,

DESCRIPTIVE OF AN ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA.

There, snowy Etna, nurse of endless frost,

In billow'd clouds, 'mid icy realms is lost!
The prop of heaven's cerulean vault above,

The favour'd dwellings of eternal Jove!

From her dark caves unnumbered fountains flow,

In fiery vollies, to the shades below.

By break of day, thick clouds of vapour rise,

And hoary mists in concert veil the skies.

But in the eve, amid nocturnal glooms,

The vivid flame th' accustom'd path resumes!

Rolls on to rocks, and, in refulgent blaze,
Through waving forests, lo! the fountain strays;
Through aged snows unconquer'd torrents stroll;

O'er icy barriers fiery volumes roll!

Fountains congealed in vain their strength oppose,
Lo! o'er the glacier, hissing-lava flows!

The sinking ice below the metal flies,

And steams majestic-from the ruins rise!

On verdant woods, whose towering summits dance

Before the gales, now adverse they advance;
The carmin'd rose to icy paleness turns,
And, as a lily, its misfortune mourns.
Sulphureous mists destruction loud proclaim;
The bursting trees the conq'ring fires inflame.
Onwards they flow; till, to th' unfathom'd sea,
To quench their raging fires, the torrents flee;
In hissing vollies, back the waters fall;
They join in fury, and they cover all!

The carmin'd rose to icy paleness turns.-It will scarcely be necessary to mention, by the action of sulphureous gas.

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Orrery. What, you have discovered that he is blind? Egad, David, whatever his eye may be, nothing escapes yours. He is blind as a beetle. There is an opacity, a stare, without sight, a sort of filminess, exactly as you describe. But notwithstanding I allow that he bellows like a bull, and is as blind as a beetle, his memory has such peculiar tenacity, that, whatever he once receives, adheres to it like glue: he does not forget a syllable of his part.

to his Garrick. Upon my honour, my Lord, if his memory was what you describe it in Ireland, he must have forgot The 20th instant, he will present a Selection of READINGS to bring it with him to London; for here the prompter is and RECITATIONS, which, in addition to the flattering obliged to repeat every sentence; and he cannot retain patrenare conferred on them in Liverpool, have since received the most distinguished marks of approbation in Lon- a whole sentence; there is absolutely a necessity for split don, Bath and Cheltenham. ting it into two parts. Admission, 38.-Tickets may be had of the Booksellers. Orrery. What, you have discovered that his head The Doors will be opened at Hall-past Seven, and the Read-runs out? upon my soul it never would hold any thing. Mr. PUTNAM gives Private Instruction in Elocution and Lady Orrery used to call him Cullender Mossop-Mossop the Cullender. The fellow could not remember a common distich. But, notwithstanding this, his carriage is so easy, his air so gentlemanlike, his deportment has so much fashion, that you perceive at a glance he has kept the best company; and no one who sees him conceives they are looking at a player. He looks like one of our house; he has the port of nobility.

the higher Branches of English Reading, and proposes to dedicate the ensuing Six Weeks to Liverpool, his Professional Engagements in Bath not permitting a longer residence here [10, Clarence-street.

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Chit Chat.

TO THE EDITOR.

uniting with larger streams in the bed of the valley, their courses being every where betrayed by the superior size and verdure of the trees which grow along the banks.

The Cave of Guacharo is about three leagues and a half from the Convent; and to arrive at it, the traveller had to go down the valley, and then follow up the course of a stream which traversed a narrow lateral valley on the west. This was the source of the river Caripe; and for four hundred paces the path accompanied the course of the channel in one place, through a deep cut in the rocks, where a cornice projected so far over head as to exclude the view of every thing above ground. At the end of this covered way, the entrance of the cavern suddenly appeared in sight, with the sides and roof shaded by the deep verdure which overspread the mountain above, while the stream of water made its first appearance, flowing out from the dark interior. The author seems to have been peculiarly in the equinoctial regions of America; for though a bostruck with the vigour and luxuriance of the vegetation tanist by taste and education, as well as familiar with all the other branches of natural history, he appears to have previously entertained no adequate ideas of the richness of the soil and the power of the climate in those countries. He remarks that the luxuriant vegetation which abounds at the entrance and in the interior of this cavern, stamps Garrick-As to his port, my Lord, I grant you that the it with a peculiar character, as remarkable and as characSTE-By inserting the following anecdote of Mr. Gar-man is tall, and upright enough; but with submission, teristic as that which European caverns derive from beds rick and Lord Orrery (from Ireland's Hogarth Illustrated, the utmost submission to your Lordship's better judgment, of ancient bones and teeth, or a fine display of stalactites. in your valuable miscellany, you will oblige, Sir, yours, don't you think there is an awkwardness, a rigid unbend. The entrance is high and wide, and nearly equals in dimost respectfully, ing sort of a-a-. We had fencing-masters, dancing-mensions the colonnade of the Louvre at Paris. As the masters, and drill sergeants, but all would not do; he passage continues straight for a considerable distance, the looked more like a tailor than a gentleman. travellers were able to proceed about four hundred feet, Orrery. What you have found out that he is stiff. By before it was necessary to light their torches; and then the Lord, David, you are right-nothing escapes you: he they heard sounds from the interior which were the hoarse is stiff, stiff as a poker. We used to call him Poker Mos- voices of innumerable night birds that build their nests sop, we had no better name for him in the country. But, against the walls and roof. however, his body might want, as I acknowledge it did, the graceful, easy bend of the Antinous, his mind was formed of the most yielding and flexible materials; any advice that you gave him he would take; from you, I am persuaded, a hint was sufficient. Garrick. Why, in this, my Lord, I must be bold enough to differ from you; for of all the obstinate, headstrong, and unmanageable animals I ever dealt with, he is the most untractable, the most wrong-headed. I never knew one instance of his following the advice I gave him, in any the smallest degree. If I recommended him to dress a character plain, he comes upon the stage like a gingerbread king; if I advise him to be splendid in his apparel, he endeavours to get a quaker's habit from the keeper of our wardrobe; and in every thing he-more than I thought belonged to human nature, has that impenetrable, that-that-that

JOSEPHUS.

Runcorn. The late Lord Orrery was a singularly-formal character. Sir Anthony Brainville, in the Discovery, was intended for his portrait, and it exhibits a strong likeness. It was sometimes the wish of Garrick to play upon the suavity of ta's old nobleman, and induce him to contradict himself. This power he exerted very successfully on the following occasion: Lord Orrery wrote a letter from Ireland to Mr. Garrick, requesting that Mossop might be engaged. The request of a man of rank was a command to the manager of Drury-lane, and Mossop was engaged. When, some months afterwards, the Peer came to England, he took an early opportunity of breakfasting with Mr. Garrick. The moment he entered the room he began his favourite subject. Orrery: "David, I congratulate you: I inquire not about the success of your theatre; with yourself and Mossop it must be triumphant. The Percy and the Douglas, both in arms, have a right to be confident. Seperate, you are two bright luminaries; united, you are a constellation; the Gemini of the theatric hemisphere. Excepting yourself, my dear David, no man that ever trod on tragic ground, has so forcibly exhibited the various passions that agitate, and, I may say, agonize the human mind. He makes that broad stroke at the heart, which being aimed by the hand of Nature, reaches the prince or the peasant, the peer or the plebian. He is not the mere player of fashion, for the mere player of fashion, David, may be Sompared to a man tossed in a blanket; the very instant supporters quit their hold of the coverlet, drown drops the hero of the day. However, as general assertions do Tot carry conviction, I will arrange my opinions under different heads, not doubting your assent to my declarations, which shall be founded on facts, and built upon experithe First, of the first; his voice is the argentea vox of the ancients, on the silver tone of which so much has been Bitten, but which never struck upon a modern ear till Mossop spoke

Orrery.-So! so you have discovered that he is obsti. nate? upon my soul he is-as obstinate as a pig; he has more of that animal's pertinacity than any man I ever knew in my life. But yet, David, with all these faults, he is-I have not time to enter into particulars; but be he what he will you have engaged him; I sincerely wish you may agree together, and am, my dear fellow, your most obedient servant. Say no more farewell. To Mrs. Garrick present my compliments.

The Traveller.

THE CAVE OF GUACHARO.

These birds are of a bluish grey colour with white spots: they are as large as common fowls, and have hooked beaks not endure the light; and they are found only in this and like the vulture. Their eyes are so formed that they canthe neighbouring caverns, which are therefore regarded by the Indians with a superstitious reverence. They leave their dark retreat only at night, and usually prefer to fiy only by moonlight. They are considered a curiosity in natural history, because there is scarcely another nightbird known which subsists entirely on fruit. The noise they made grew louder and louder as the travellers proceeded, until it became almost terrific: for every sound was repeated by the high roof and the distant recesses of the cavern. The Indian guides having fixed their torches to long poles, raised them up to show the nests which were the terror of the birds: they redoubled their cries, making formed among the craggy rocks above: and this increased only an occasional pause, as if to hear responses of hundreds and thousands of their species which inhabited the other parts of the cavern, and were little less frightened

than themselves.

The Indians assemble once a year at the Cave of Guacharo to kill the young birds, which grow so fat in their dark abode, on the abundance of food they obtain, that each of them yields a considerable quantity of beauti ful pure oil, much esteemed for its richness, and used in great quantities as an article of food. After having been exposed to heat in earthen jars placed at the mouth of the cave, which makes it clear, inodorous, and colourless, it is put into a kind of basket made of palm leaves, and may be kept more than a year without suffering any change. "Then mute attention reign'd." At the distance of a few leagues from the city of Cumana, It is known by the name of Guachare butter-and is conGarrick-Why, my Lord, as to his voice, I must ac- and in a valley remarkable for its secluded situation, the sidered a very valuable substitute for that made from milk. owledge it is loud enough: the severest critic cannot fertilily of its soil, and the striking features of the sur- It was used by the Indians long before the arrival of Euuse him of whispering his part; for, egad, it was so rounding mountains, is the Spanish Convent of Caripe. ropeans, and one of their ancient families lays claim to urous, that the people had no occasion to come into the This institution was formed for civilizing, or perhaps more the exclusive privilege of killing birds in the cavern; but theatre to hear Lim. They used to go into the pastry-properly, for controlling the Indians who inhabit the neigh- the whole business is now under the direction of the monks, Cook's, in Russel-court, and eat their custards, and hear bouring country; and, like the numerous other monaste- who profess to pay for all the oil they receive except what him as well as if they had been in the orchestra. He ries in different parts of Spanish America, has collected is necessary for the church lamp. The birds would proTade the welkin roar; no one could doubt the goodness about it a village of the aborigines, who are governed by bably have been destroyed long ago, but for the superstiof his lungs, or accuse him of sparing them; but as to the brethren of the convent, although their inferior officers tious fear of the Indians, which prevents them from peneOrrery What, you have found out the bellows, have are chosen from among themselves. The Spanish and Por-trating far into the cavern where vast numbers of nests are You? You have discovered that he roars?-Upon my tuguese missions in South America have brought to light permitted to remain undisturbed from year to year. ul, David, you are right; he bellows like a bull. We much important information concerning the habits and The Indians never pass the spot where the light of day wed to call him Bull Mossop-Mossop the Bull. We had languages of the Indians, and have promoted their civili- entirely fails them, for they say man should never be found better name for him in the country. But then, David, zation to a certain degree; but beyond this degree they in places visited neither by the sun nor the moon; and berye is an eye of fire; and when he looks, he looks un- have not allowed them to proceed. sides they believe that the souls of the departed inhabit rable things. It is scarce necessary that he should the interior of the cavern, and that whoever goes far in ak, for his eye conveys every thing that he means; will never return. All the authority of the monks was ad, excepting your own, it is the brightest, most expresbarely sufficient to urge them beyond a little cataract ve, most speaking eye that ever beamed in a formed by the stream, where the floor rises with a steep Garrick-Why, my Lord, with the utmost submission angle; and when they had reached a place overgrown your Lordship, from whose accurate taste and comprewith shrubs and trees, that had sprung from the seeds of tive judgment I tremble to differ, does not your Lord fruit brought in by the birds they were so struck with ship think there is a-a- a dull kind of heaviness-a their pale and melancholy aspect, that they absolutely reJanket, a fused to proceed any farther.

Humboldt speaks of the Convent of Caripe as most delightfully situated. It is built on the margin of the valley, and just at the front of an enormous precipice, whose cliffs are so deeply coated with verdure as to show but in a few places the white rocks of which it is composed. The valley is shut in on every side by high mountains, some of which present, towards the south, an abrupt descent of about a thousand feet. Innumerable springs pour down from all sides, watering little patches of cultivated ground, and

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"I'm not going to be choused out of my dinner for all that," replied the youth, munching away with great industry, and at the same time calling out-" Steward! take away this porter-pot, it runs." I doubt that," cried Smart. "I say it does," resumed Dick, angrily, "the table-cloth is all of a sop.' "I'll bet you half-a-crown

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Here the company were alarmed by a terrified groan (From the last number of the New Monthly Magazine. from Mr. Croak, who ejaculated, "Heaven have mercy upon us! did you hear that whizzing noise?-there it is it doesn't." Done! and done! were hastily exchanged, "They fool me to the top of my bent."-Shakspeare. again! there's something wrong in the boiler-if it bursts, when Mr. Smart, looking round with a smirk, exclaimed, we shall all be in Heaven in five minutes."-"The Lord "Ladies and gentlemen, I appeal to every one of you "Come, Mrs. Suet, Mrs. Hoggins, Mrs. Sweetbread, forbid !" ejaculated two or three voices, while others be- whether the pot has not been perfectly still, and nothing Mrs. Cleaver! dinner's ready; shall I show you the way gan to scream, and were preparing to quit their places, has been running but the beer." This elicited a shout at down to the cabin? we mustn't spoil good victuals though when the steward informed them it was nothing in the poor Dick's expense, who sullenly muttered, "I'm not we are sure of good company. Lauk! what a monstrous world but the spare steam which they were letting off. going to be bamboozled out of an alf-crown in that there deal of smoke comes out of the chimney. I suppose they "Ay, so they always say," resumed Croak, with an in- vay, and vat's more, I vont be made a standing joke by no are dressing the second course; every thing's roasted by credulous tone and woe-begone look; but it was just man." "I don't see how you can," replied his antagonist. steam, they say,-how excessively clever! As to Mrs. the same on board the American steam-boat that I was so long as you are sitting." "Vy are you like a case of Dip, since she's so high and mighty, she may find her telling you of-fifty-two souls sitting at dinner, laughing ketchup?" cried Dick, venturing for once to become the own way down. What! she's afraid of spoiling her fine and chatting for all the world as we are now, when there assailant, and immediately replying to his own inquiry, shawl, I reckon, though you and I remember, Mrs. Hog- comes a whiz, such as we heard a while ago-God help" because you are a saucebox.' "Haw! haw!" roared his gins, when her five-shilling Welsh- whittle was kept for us! there it is once more-and bang! up blew the boiler mother, "bravo, Dick! well done Dick! there's a a proper Sunday's church, and good enough too, for we all know fourteen people scalded to death-large pieces of their rap for you, Mr. Smart." Somewhat nettled at this joke, what her mother was. Good Heavens! here comes Un-flesh found upon the banks of the river, and a little finger poor as it was, the latter returned to the charge by indertaker Croak, looking as down in the mouth as the root picked up next day in an oyster-shell, which, by the ring quiring of Dick why his hat was like a giblet-pie? and of my tongue: do let me get out of his way; I wouldn't upon it was known to be the captain's. But don't be after suffering him to guess two or three times in vain, cried sit next to him for a rump and dozen; he does tell such alarm'd ladies and gentlemen, I dare say we shall escape because there's a goose's head in it," and instantly set dismal stories, that it quite gives one the blue devils. He any scalding as we're all in the cabin, and so we shall the example of the horse-laugh, in which the company is like a night-mare, isn't he, Mr. Smart ?" He may only go to the bottom smack! Indeed we may arrive joined. Finding he was getting the worst of it, Dick be like a mare by night," replied Mr. Smart, with a safe they do sometimes, and I wish we may now, for thought it prudent to change the conversation, by ob smirking chuckle; "but I consider him more like an ass nobody loves a party of pleasure more than I do. I hate serving that it would luckily be "'igh-water in the arbour by day. He! be! he!" Looking round for applause at to look upon the gloomy side of things when we are all when they arrived." "Then I recommend you by all this sally, he held out his elbows, and taking a lady, or happy together (here another groan), and I hope I haven't means to use some of it," said the pertinacious Mr. Smart, rather a female, under each arm, he danced towards the said any thing to lower the spirits of the company." "perhaps it may cure your squint.' hatchway, exclaiming, "Now I am ready trussed for "There's no occasion," cried Smart, "for I saw the table; liver under one wing, and gizzard under the other." steward putting water into every bottle of brandy." The "Keep a civil tongue in your head, Mr. Smart; I don't laugh excited by this bon-mot tended, in some degree, to quite understand being called a liver-look at the sparks dissipate the alarm and gloom which the boding Mr. coming out of the chimney; I declare I am frightened to Croak had been infusing into the party; and Smart, by death."-"Well, then, you are, of course, no longer a way of fortifying their courage, bade them remark that liver," resumed the facetious Mr. Smart; "so we may as the sailors were obviously under no sort of apprehension. well apply to Mr. Croak to bury you."-"O Gemini ! "Ay," resumed the persevering Mr. Croak, they are don't talk so shocking; Ihad rather never die at all, than used to it-it is their business-they are bred to the sea." have such a fellow as that to bury me."-" Dickey, my "But they don't want to be bread to the fishes, any dear!" cried Mrs. Cleaver to her son, who was leaning more than you or I," retorted Smart, chuckling at his over the ship's side with a most woe-begone and emetical having the best of the nonsense. expression of countenance, hadn't you better come "Well," exclaimed Mrs. Sweetbread, "I never tasted down to dinner? There's a nice silver side of a round o' such beer as this-flat as ditch-water; they should have beef, and the chump end of a line o'mutton, besides a rare put it upon the cullender to let the water run out; and hock of bacon, which I dare say will settle your stomach." yet you have been drinking it, Smart, and never said any -"O mother," replied the young Cockney, "that 'ere thing about it."-" Madam," replied the party thus adcold beef-steak and inguns vat you put up in the pocket dressed, laying his hand upon his heart and looking very handkerchief, vasn't good I do believe, for all my hin- serious, I make it a rule never to speak ill of the dead. | sides are of a work." "Tell 'em it's a holiday," cried I am eating the ham, you see, and yet it would be much Smart.-"O dear, O dear!" continued Dick, whose usual better if I were to let it exemplify one of Shakspeare's sobrazen tone was subdued into a lackadaisical whine, "Ililoquies-Ham-let alone."-"La! you're such a wag,' vant to reach, and I can't-vat shall I do, mother?" Stand on tiptoe, my darling," replied Smart, imitating the voice of Mrs. Cleaver, who began to take in high dud. geon this horse-play of her neighbour, and was proceeding to manifest her displeasure in no very measured terms, when she was fortunately separated from her antagonist, and borne down the hatchway by the dinner-desiring crowd, though sundry echoes of the word "Jackanapes!" and "imperent feller," continued audible above the confused gabble of the gangway.

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cried Mrs. Hoggins, "there is no being up to you; but
if you don't like the ham, take a slice of this edge-bone-
nothing's better than cold beef."-"I beg your pardon,
Madam," replied the indefatigable joker-" cold beef's
better than nothing-Ha! ha! ha!"

"How do you find yourself now, my darling? said Mrs. Cleaver to her son, who had been driven below by a shower, and kept his bat on because, as he said, his "air was quite vet."—" Vy, mother, I have been as sick as a cat, but I'm bang up now, and so peckish that I feel as Well, but Mr. Smart," cried Mrs. Suet, as soon as if I could heat any thing."-" Then just warm these poshe had satisfied the first cravings of her appetite, you tatoes," said Smart, handing him the dish, “for they are promised to tell me all about the steam, and explain what almost cold."-"I'll thank you not to run your rigs upon it is that makes them wheels go round and round as fast me," quoth the Cockney, looking glumpish, " or I shall as those of our one-horse chay, when Jem Ball drives the fetch you a vipe with this here hash-stick. If one gives trotting mare."-"Why, Ma'am, you must understand-" you a hinch, you take a hell."- Never mind him, my Who called for sandwiches and a tumbler of negus?" dear," cried his mother, "eat this mutton chop, it will bawled the steward" Who called for the savages and do you good; there's no gravy, for Mr. Smart has all the tumbling negroes?" repeated Mr. Smart." Yes, ma'am, sauce to himself. Haw! Law! haw!"-" Very good!" you saw the machinery, I believe-(capital boiled beef)- exclaimed the latter, clapping his hands, " egad! Ma'am, there's a thing goes up and a thing goes down, all made you are as good a wag as your own double chin." This of iron; well, that's the hydrostatic principle; then you was only ventured in a low tone of voice, and, as the fat put into the boiler-(a nice leg of mutton. Mrs. Sweet- dame was at that moment handing the plate to her son, it bread)-let me see, where was I?-In the boiler, I be- was fortunately unheard. Dick being still rather giddy, lieve. Ah! it's an old trick of mine to be getting into contrived to let the chop fall upon the floor, an occurrence hot water. So, ma'am, you see they turn all the smoke at which Mr. Smart declared he was not in the least surthat comes from the fire on to the wheels, and that makes prised, as the young man, when first he came into the them spin round, just as the smoke-jack in our chimneys cabin, looked uncommonly chop-fallen. Dick, however, turns the spit; and then there's the safety-valve in case of had presently taken a place at the table, and began attack danger, which lets all the water into the fire, and so puts ing the buttock of beef with great vigour and vivacity, You see, ma'am, it's very simple, protesting he had got a famous happetite," and felt as when once you understand the trigonometry of it."O hungry as an ound."-"I never say any thing to disperfectly; but I never had it properly explained to me be- courage any body," said Mr. Croak, particularly young fore. It's vastly clever, isn't it? How could they think people; it's a thing I hate, but t'other day a fine lad sate of it? Shall I give you a little of the sallad? La, it down to his dinner in this very packet, after being sea-sick, isn't dressed; what a shame!" just as you may be doing now, when it turned out he had broke a blood vessel, and in twelve hours he was a corpse, and a very pretty one he made."

out the steam at once.

"Not at all," cried Smart, "none of us dressed for dinner, so that we can hardly expect it to be dressed for

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Both mother and son rose up in wrath at this personality, and there would infallibly have been a bourrasque (as the French say) in the hold, but that there was just then a tremendous concussion upon the deck, occasioned by the fall of the main-boom, and followed by squeaks and screams, of all calibres, from the panic-stricken compary at the dinner-table. Lord have mercy upon us!" eja culated Croak with a deep groan, "it's all over with us, we are going to the bottom. I like to make the best of every thing, it's my way, and therefore hope no lady or gentlman will be in the least alarmed, for I believe drowning is a much less painful death than is generally supposed."

Having run upon deck at this juncture for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the accident, which he found to be unattended with the smallest danger, the writer can not detail any more of the conversation that ensued until their arrival at Calais, which will form the subject of asother paper.

ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAVELLING.

It would seem that coaches were unknown in Engla in the time of Luther, who died in 1546; and accordi to Stow, the first coach used was built in 1565, by Wal Ripon, for the Earl of Rutland. For some time after the introduction of carriages, the weight of them, the clumsi ness of their construction (being without springs), and the state of the roads prevented their being commonly e ployed in journeys; and there are sufficient instance upon record to show that, to a late period of the 17th ce tury, the highways, even in the immediate neighbou hond of London, were in a neglected and frequent almost impassable state for vehicles of any descriptor.

In the correspondence of Sir George Ratcliffe, we hav many proofs of the serious inconvenience that attende travellers in the early part of the 17th century, at w time the communication between the north of Erg and the Universities was kept by carriers, who purs their tedious but uniform route with whole trains of pack horses, and to their care was consigned not only the p ages, but very frequently the persons of young scholar

About 1640 the wife of Henry, last Earl of Cumberla in a tedious journey from London to Landebortuga which occupied eleven days, either from the state of th roads or disdaining to use the metropolitan luxury c carriage, appears to have ridden the whole way on hor back, having 32 horses in her train,

Wood, in his Diary, first mentions a stage coach, und the year 1661, and six years afterwards he informs us travelled from London to Oxford by such a converand The journey occupied two days, and we may remark, evincing the more serious light in which travelling regarded a century and a half ago, that notwithstanding many attractions which London held out to a perseg sessing his antiquarian zeal and habits of research, though residing within sixty miles of the capital, had a tained his thirty-fifth year before he visited it. A conve ance was afterwards invented, called the Flying Coach

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which completed the journey between Oxford and London
thirteen successive hours, but it was soon found neces-
sary to abandon it, at least during the winter months.
The following anecdotes will evince, that, for a long time
bsequently to this period, the state of the public roads
so defective, that public convenience and accommo-
dation in travelling were almost wholly neglected. In
December, 1703, Charles III. King of Spain, slept at
Petworth, on his way from Portsmouth to Windsor, and
Prince George of Denmark went to meet him there by
desire of the Queen. In the relation of the journey given
by one of the Prince's attendants, he states, "We set out
at is in the morning, by torchlight, to go to Petwork,
and did not get out of the coaches (save only when we were
overturned or stuck fast in the mire) till we arrived at our
journey's end. 'Twas a hard service for the Prince to sit
fourteen hours in the coach that day without eating any thing,
and passing through the worst ways I ever saw in my life.
We were thrown but once indeed in going, but our coach,
which was the leading one, and his Highness's body coach,
would have suffered very much if the nimble boors of Sus- Mr. Markland: " You struck the watchman."
sex had not frequently poised it or supported it with their O'Gorman: I called him to help me; he came up and
shoulders, from Godalming almost to Petworth, and the tack me into custody. Was that the way to help me.'
nearer we approached the Duke's house the more inacces- Mr. Markland: "I must put you up, unless you find
sible it seemed to be. The last nine miles of the way cost somebody to answer for your good behaviour."
us six bours time to conquer them, and indeed we had O'Gorinan: "Mrs. Fleming will answer for me."
never done it if our good master had not several times lent Mrs. Fleming: "Naw, I wa'nt, naw."
us a pair of horses out of his own coach, whereby we were O'Gorman: Yes, you will, jewel; you'll tell his Ho-
enabled to trace out the way for him." Afterwards, writ-nour I'll be on my good behaviour, and be a good boy,
ing of his departure on the following day from Petworth to and take care of me, and I'll do the like good turn for you
Guildford, and thence to Windsor, he says, "I saw him when you get stuck among these peelers. Yes, you will
(the Prince) no more till I found him at supper at Wind-answer for me."-Mrs. Fleming hesitated.-O'Gorman
Bor; for there we were overturned (as we had been once whispered.-Mrs. Fleming still wavered, and shook her
before the same morning) and broke our coach; my Lord head.-O'Gorman took her hand, looked significantly into
Delaware had the same fate, and so had several others."

| Watch!" went to his assistance: the prisoner insisted
that Mrs. Fleming should repay him the price of the bed,
four-pence; was excessively riotous; abused every body;
and struck the watchman.

Mr. Markland, to the prisoner: "From what part do
you come, O'Gorman ?"

"From the watch-house, your Honour."

Mr. Markland: "I know that; but I mean, O'Gorman,"-" Och, I know; from Ireland, your Honour." Mr. Markland: "I know that, too: where were you before you came to Mrs. Flemings?

O'Gorman: "At Lewisham."

Mr. Markland: "What have you to say against this
charge?"

O'Gorman: "What's the use in my saying any thing?"
Mr. Markland: "Very little, I fear.'
O'Gorman :
Sure I can't swear against three of them."
Mr. Markland: I don't want you to swear.'
O'Gorman: "They'd sell God Almighty for sixpence.
I am as innocent as the pig unborn."

In the time of Charles (surnamed the Proud) Duke of Somerset, who died in 1748, the roads in Sussex were in bad a state, that in order to arrive at Guildford from Petworth travellers were obliged to make for the nearest point of the great road leading from Portsmouth to Londes. This was a work of so much difficulty as to occupy the whole day, and the Duke had a house at Guildford

hich was regularly used as a resting place for the night by any of his family travelling to London. A manuscript Jetter from a servant to the Duke, dated from London, ad addressed to another at Petworth, acquaints the latter at his Grace intended to go from London thither on a certain day, and directs that "the keepers and persons ho knew the holes and the sloughs must come to meet is Grace with lanthorns and long poles, to help him on his way."

It is only necessary to contrast the above relations with the present state of the public roads, to see what immense Atrides have been made during a century towards the inmal improvement of England.

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LUDICROUS TRIAL.-QUEEN-SQUARE.

And-headed, broad-shouldered Irishman, with a bandover his right eye, and a longitude of beard that would our a pubescent Jew, was brought up before the marate, on a charge of riotous conduct. Mr. Fleming, a comfortable-looking matron, proprie

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of a miscellaneous lodging-house, opened the case fainst the prisoner. "The man is a coming-and-going er of mine, your Worship, what lies with me now and Lies with you !" exclaimed the magistrate." In my in my house, your Worship, as a lodger; she came The on Saturday night for a bed." She!" interrupted the magistrate, "what, then he woman with him ?"-" No, your Honour, no wobut myself." Mr. Markland: "Whom, then, do you mean by she?" Mrs Fleming: "Why, the man, to be sure, your Wor

p."

Mr. Markland: "She, a man! What country do you

toe from ?"

Prisoner: "She is a Scotchman, your Honour."
Mr. Markland: Well, Mrs. Fleming?"
Mrs. Fleming: " She axed me to show her to her bed.
ad that. In the room she laid hands on me, and hauled
ut my clothes, and

Prisoner: "Oh, Mrs. Fleming!"

Ms. Fleming: "Yes, you did. I tauld her to gi'e
ebis gallymaufry. She wad na. Then came a row,
ad then the watchman, and that's all."

Mr. Markland: "Was he drunk?"
Mr Fleming: "Not preceesely, your Worship: he
freshish; betwixt and between; just neither drunk
sober. The watchman kens the rest."

The watchman deposed that he heard the prisoner cry

her eyes

And winked and squeezed unutterable things.'
We are not made of stick or stone,' as Sterne some-
where says.

this grand amour. Me be, Madam, your great slave, votres trees humble serviteur. "PRES A BOIRE." Astronomy.

EVENING AMUSEMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER.

The method of finding the longitude by what is termed lunar observations, is that which is most generally practised by navigators in the present day, not only to discover their situation to the east or west, but also to operate as a corrector, when compared with the longitude given by the chronometer. It appears to have suggested itself very early to the first professors of nautical astronomy; but the imperfection of proper instruments to observe with, and the want of correct tables, to ascertain the moon's precise place, rendered every attempt abortive to discover the longitude with any degree of accuracy. Difficulties, however great, actuate the speculative mind to renewed exertion; and inventive genius is never more happily employed than when engaged in the arduous undertaking of surmounting obnefit of mankind. The invention of Hadley's sextant was structions, and smoothing the paths of science, for the bean important acquisition to the mariner; while the construction, and ultimate improvement, of the lunar tables, by Mayer, materially contributed to his success in long and dangerous voyages; for, as the lunar observations were practically performed by measuring the angular distance between the Sun and Moon, or the Moon and the fixed Stars of the first magnitude, that lay in or near her orbit, the sextant presented, at once, an instrument capable of taking that angle; and the tables of Mayer, by accurately determining the Moon's place (that is, her geocentric latitude and longitude) afforded the means of previously calculating those distances for Greenwich time, and which are inserted for every third hour of the day in the Astronomical Ephemeris published by the Board of Longitude. The intermediate time may be found by taking the differences of the distances above and below the observed distance (corrected for refraction and parallax by the method of Mendoza Rios, or the Linear Tables of Norie) and, calcu African Legitimate." This monarch (King of Ashan-lating them by proportional logarithms, the result will be, tee) was seated on a massive gold throne, under the shade of an artificial tree with golden leaves. His body, extremely lean and inordinately tall, was smeared over with tallow mixed up with gold dust. A European hat, bound with broad gold lace, covered his head; his loins were encircled with a sash of golden cloth. From his neck down to his feet, cornelians, agates, and lazulites were crowded in the form of bracelets and chains, and his feet rested on a golden basin. The Grandees of the realm lay prostrate on the ground, with their heads covered with dust. A hundred complainers and accused persons were in a similar posture; behind them twenty executioners, with drawn sabres in their hands, waited the royal signal, which generally terminated each cause by the decapitation of one or other of the parties. The Danish Envoy, passing a number of bloody heads, recently separated from the Prince addressed him with the following most gracious body, approached the throne. The magnificent flaming questions:- I would willingly detain thee for some months in my dominions, to give you an idea of my greatit? No! lord and king, thou hast no equal in the ness. Hast thou ever seen any thing to be compared with world! Thou art right, God in heaven does not much surpass me !'"-M. Multe Brun.

Mrs. Fleming felt the eloquent appeal to her generosity, and the prosecutrix became responsible for the conduct of the prisoner.

Disinterested Love.-The following is a genuine copy of a letter addressed some years ago to a lady of fortune at Portsmouth, upwards of four-score years of age, by a French prisoner of war at Porchester Castle:" Porchester, Madam,-Me rite de English very leet, and me am very fears you no saave vat me speak; but me be told that you want one very fine mans for your hosband; upon my soul me love you very well, and thou be very ould woman, and very cross, and very ugly, and all de devil, and the English no like you, upon my soul me have one great passion for you, and me like you very well for all dat; and me be told dat de man for you must be one very clean man, and no love de drink, me be all dat; indeed me be one very grand man in France, upon my soul me be one Count, me have one grand equipage in France, and me very good for the esprit; indeed me be one grand beau-a-la-mode, one officier in de regiment; me be very good for the Engleterrers; indeed you be one very good old woman, upon my soul; and if you have one inclination for one man, me be dat gentleman for you, one grand man for you; me will be your hosband, and take de care for yourself, for de house, for de gardin, for de Schoff, for de drink, and for the little childs dat shall come; upon my soul me kill myself very soon, if you no love me for

the true time at Greenwich; and the difference between
that and the time at ship will give the longitude of the
place of observation (if well observed) within fifteen mi-
nutes, or less, of a degree. The stars principally made
use of for this purpose are Arietis a Aries, Aldebaran a
Taurus, Pollux in Gemini, Regulus a Leo, Spica Virginis
a Virgo, Antares a Scorpio, Altair a Aquila, Fomalhaut
a Piscis Australis, and Markab a Pegasi.
Phases of the Moon.

...

O Full Moon 7d. 23h. 40m. (Last Quarter 15 19 17 New Moon 22 10 28 D First Quarter. 29 11 32 Mercury will be at his greatest elongation on the 7th day; but as his place in the ecliptic at setting, although 200 from the Sun, will have nearly the same altitude, no tion. Mercury is in Virgo throughout the month. very favourable opportunity will be afforded for observa6h. 32m. September 25, Venus culminates Oh. 59m. sets W. S.

junction with Spica Virginis on the 27th day, about 19h. Venus passes from Leo into Virgo, and will be in conOn 24th day, Venus, Mercury, and Spica will form a small equilateral triangle, whose appearance would be very interesting were it possible to see them.

September 25, Mars culminates 8h. 50m. sets S. W. by by W. 7h. 54m.

Mars passes from Libra into Scorpio, and will be in conjunction with Scorpio on 22 day 13 hours.

September 25, Jupiter rises N. E. by E. E. 12h. 44m. culminates 20h. 30m.

Jupiter is in the constellation Cancer throughout the month, and will be in conjunction with Cancer 17d. 11h. September 25, Saturn rises 8h. 24m. culminates 16h. 15m.

The appearance of Saturn throughout this month will be peculiarly beautiful and interesting, near Taurus, or the Bull's right eye, and 34° to the northward of Aldebaran. Saturn will be stationary on the 19th day, and, afterward will have a regressive motion, though hardly perceptible.

September 21, culminates 6h. 56m. sets 10h. 50m. The Georgian is still in the head of Sagittarius, and becomes stationary on the 20th day.

On the 25th day at 10h. the body of Cepheus, Lacerta, part of Pegasus, the five stars in the Water-pot of Aquarius, and Piscis Australis, will be on the meridian; Aldebaran E. by N. Gemini rising N. E. by N.

Correspondence.

HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-I cannot lose my time in answering every barker which the hope of being noticed by the public may induce to attack me; but I do not think I ought to suffer the letter of a Mr. Campbell, in your Kaleidoscope of 31st August, to go uncontradicted. I do not know the man, and others in the same case might possibly believe him.

Hamiltonian;-so that he had witnessed the downfal of a

is a translation of a line from Terence, viz. "Amantium
iræ umoris integratio est," which is given in the syntax
to the Eton Latin grammar, as an example of one of the
exceptions to the first concord, in the rule, Verbum inter
duos substantivos, &c. where the verb agrees with the latter
substantive. Yours, &c.
A SCHOOLBOY.

Liverpool, September 7, 1824.

the foot from the centre of motion, will continually decrease till the foot arrives at its greatest height, when it becomes be considered as a straight line, bent into two given parts at the least possible, (because the leg and thigh together may the knee, and when the inclined angle is the least, under certain circumstances, the opposite side will be so too Then all lines drawn from the centre to the curve are variable or unequal; the curve of oscillation is not a circle, for by the definition of that curve all the straight lines drawn

P. S. Renewal is the English word corresponding with from the centre to the circumference are equal. integratio, renewing being a participle.

TO THE EDITOR.

This man says he was in New York six years ago, and witnessed there the rise and downfal of my system. ConsistSIR, I fear your correspondent L. K. is rather too ently with this declaration, he says, in another place, he had dogmatical in his decision of the grammatical query. He heard of the Bell and Lancasterian systems, but never of the hopes few of your readers are ignorant of the first rule of system of which he had never heard: and though he had syntax; I fear he himself does not know the third or never heard of it, he assures us that no person practised my fourth (I forget exactly) where the editor of the Eton Latin system but myself. In order, therefore, that he could wit-grammar tells us that verbum inter duos nominativos cum ness the fate of it, I must have been at New York at the same alterutero concordat, and gives e. g. "amantium iræ time. Now it happens I was not there six years ago. If est is corthere in 1815 and 16; in October of 16 I published the second amoris integratio est" (the case in point.) edition of my essay on the usual mode of teaching the lan-rect Latinity, he will not be guilty of inelegant version guages, including a number of the most respectable testimo- who translates the proverb, "The quarrels of lovers is the nies from New Yorkers, of the extraordinary efficacy of the renewal of love." The above is a rule so well known, system. A copy of this essay will be shown to any respecta that it is trifling to give an instance in English; but for ble person who will take the trouble of calling at the estab-L. K.'s satisfaction I will give him one, "The wages of sin is death," (St. Paul.)

lishment in this place.

I was

I left New York only when every body left it, in August, and have taught there twice since. The Hamiltonian system did not require the evidence of 3000 pupils, formed in America, nor the evidence of a number of respectable teachers,

who now use it there. When such facts as have been published of this system could be accomplished in a few weeks, it was superfluous to go 3000 miles for proofs of its efficacy.-Above thirty letters of recommendation were, however, brought to London from New York and other parts of America, and the names of the persons to whom they were addressed lodged in the hands of Boosey and Son, Broad-street, with an invitation to the public to inspect them, and inquire where they pleased. Among these names was that of the American Ambassador, to whom I had three letters; one from the Attorney-general of the United States; one from the Secretary of the Treasury, Crawford, whose children I taught in Washington; and one from the Minister of Marine.

The American Ambassador did me the honour to call at the London establishment, to testify his regret that his sons could not profit by my system, it being necessary they should return home. His Secretary became my pupil for two or three languages, and is one of its warmest advocates. There is no populous part of the United States, where, with one quarter of the expense incurred in Liverpool, I could not have obtained twice the number of pupils.

Mr. Campbell's remarks and his system are unworthy of notice. To prove that something is taught on the system of the schools, he instances the alphabet. I grant it. This is taught usually in about six months, and at the expense of sixty floggings. On the Hamiltonian system, it would not cost the child a single blow, a single tear, I would almost say not a single instant of his time. He assures that 'tis easy to

read, or learn to read, the French Testament. I have silenced

twenty such boasters by handing them the book, with an neither Mr. Campbell nor his French master could translate,

invitation to translate it. There are twenty passages, which

otherwise than by guess.

Ashtonian is primâ facie no scholar, and his reading,
were it English, would be no translation of the epigram.
His doggrels tell badly for his credit, by the side of a
Westminster Scholars':

N.B. In the figure to this feat, the left leg of the person is represented as bent in an angle at the knee; but all the persons that I have seen practise it appear to preserve the left leg in an upright position,

To Correspondents.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.-Y. Z. who is very severe npon
others, is not quite infallible himself. It is true that Z, in
his Essay on Taste, is somewhat unsuccessful in his quota
tions; but Y. Z's. criticism thereon is little better. Z. in
speaking of the ignorant, says they are omne lege soluti, by
which he means, no doubt, omni lege soluti. But we do
not exactly see what Y. Z's. Chemistry, or his friend Tom's
declination of the word Felix has to do with this error.
Then again in quoting Horace, Z. says "Hæc si quit, ten-
pestatis," &c. This is evidently wrong, as there is no sense
in the construction. But how can Y. Z. suppose him to
mean-Hæc si qui è tempestatis," &c. We beg leave to say
that Z. and Y. Z. are both wrong, and that the only inteill
gible construction is

"Hæc si quis, tempestatis propè ritu
Mobilia, et cœcâ fluitantia sorte, laboret
Reddere certa, sibi nihilo magis explicet, ac si
Insanire paret certâ ratione modoque."

"Hic niger est: hunc Tu, Romane, ca veto." Dr. Twist's severity is merited certainly; but I should THE COUNCIL OF TEN.-These gentlemen must really contrive think most of your readers have lately cut the opinions of The Ten in Council. Yours, &c. L. W.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-L. K. in answer to a Mr. Philo Abstemious, is of opinion that it is incorrect to make use of the word is, in the aukward sentence-"The quarrels of lovers is the renewing of love;" and that the verb ought to agree in the plural number with the word quarrels, without any regard, it would seem, to that which is more naturally the subject of it. Mr. L. K. might, with as much reason assert, that the following passage out of the New Testament is incorrect, "The wages of sin is death," Rom. v. xxiii. and that it ought to run thus, "The wages of sin are followed by death.-Yours, &c.

TO THE EDITOR.

Δ.

SIR,-The author of the article Gymnasia, in your
number of the 31st August, having expressed his inability
to comprehend the rationale of the feat No. VIII. and as
it appears to him to be "at variance with all the known
laws of projectiles", I beg to offer for his consideration
the following brief explanation, which is founded upon
the doctrine of projectiles.
Bradford, Yorkshire.

AMICUS.

Mr. Campbell finds fault with my admission of the general private worth and unassuming integrity of teachers. "Tis clear, I spoke of them generally, and did not mean to say Suppose the tangent drawn from the highest point of the there were not exceptions: I clearly did not mean to compre-curve of oscillation, (described by the person's foot) to lie hend those men (and there are too many, without counting wholly above the curve, and on the right of it, or inclined Mr. Campbell) who, with no virtue but industry, no talent to the person performing the feat; then the foot quitting the but impudence, foist themselves into the honourable profes- body so as not to affect its velocity in the curve, it is manifest sion, and have the audacity to attempt or pretend to teach, from the doctrine of projectiles, that the body will move toinstead of going to school. 'Tis clear, also, that I except wards the person in a parabola with the velocity acquired in those men, who, in the hope of escaping detection from the the curve at the point of contact, which will, (when the feat distance of time and place, invent malignant falsehoods, for is well performed,) be generally sufficient to carry the body the purpose of injuring the character of a more successful over the person's head. But this feat must necessarily fail when teacher. Equally worthy of notice are those reports, so in- the tangent at the highest point is not dextral to the curve; dustriously spread in Liverpool, that I have abandoned the which may arise from two causes, either from not carrying the establishment in London, where we have at this moment foot high enough, or from the body's quitting the foot before five or six public classes, and above forty private ones; where it has attained its greatest height. For in either case the ditwo editions of the French Testament have been sold in the reetion of the body's motion being turned from the person, last nine months, and where an edition now in press, of the body would of course fall somewhere behind him. 3500, is impatiently waited for. Sept. 9, 1824.

JAMES HAMILTON.

GRAMMATICAL QUERIES.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-I hold the expression "The quarrels of lovers is the renewal of love" to be correct, because that sentence

Having now shown, upon principles strictly geometrical,
when this problem is possible, and when it is impossible, I
proceed to demonstrate by the method of reductio ad absur-
dum, that the curve described by the person's foot in this
feat, which I call the curve of oscillation, is not a circle.
For the right leg of the person moving round a fixed point as
a centre, whilst the angle at the knee decreases everywhere

from 180°, till the foot attains the highest point backwards,
when it will be the least, and, consequently, the distance of

to furnish us with their MS. somewhat earlier. Their
messenger has but this instant (eight o'clock, Monday) made
his appearance, and it is, therefore, quite impossible to give
more of their communication this week than the following
card:

"The COUNCIL OF TEN have to make their respectful as
knowledgments to a certain quarter, for the very polite
note, and its enclosure, left for them at the Kaleidoscope
office. They beg to thank the conductors of the 5-
leidoscope, too, for having kindly become the medium of
so flattering a communication."
Sept. 13, 1824."

"

NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY.-If the correspondent, whose note is subjoined, will furnish us with the biographical sketch he recommends, or inform us where we may refer to it, we shall be enabled to ascertain whether the memoir is sufi ciently interesting for revival. We can find no notice of the author of the Man of Feeling, in any work in our own library, although we have consulted Aiken and Ended large Biography.

SIR,-Many of your constant readers would be re much obliged by the insertion of a memoir of Henry Me kenzie, Esq. author of the " Man of Feeling," "Julia de Re bigne," Man of the World," &c. Probably some of yo authentic memoir of this amiable and highly interestin correspondents may possess materials to furnish us with author.

R. W.

if this memoir were to form the first of a series of Neglecte P.S. It would be very acceptable to many of your reader Biography.

GRAMMATICAL CRITICISM.-M.'s letter is reserved for next wee He will perceive that he has been anticipated by three e respondents. We do not despair of finally arranging th lovers quarrels. All that we shall say on the subject o selves is "You all are right and all are wrong." Matthew Mole-catcher, on the weather, and Terence Mally Esq. on the sublimities of his system, have been receive The latter has a touch of humour; but we fear his p stories have also had a touch.

MUSIC. Our correspondent T.'s song is prepared in the ty and shall be published in a supplementary half-sheet ne week.

We shall examine our port-folio for Jocular's effusion. If is probable, it is written as carelessly as the last note of t same correspondent, that circumstance is sufficient to count for its having been laid aside.

Our Bristol correspondent S. T. is informed, that we are
fectly satisfied with the arrangement he has made with
friend M.; and we thank him for the trouble he has tak
and for his communication.

Our Manchester correspondent's paper on the Death Wat
-T. T.'s letter-Cujus—W.—and J. C. have been receive
Printed, published, and sold, EVERY TUESDAY, by
SMITH and Co. 75, Lord-street, Liverpool.

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