the internal structure of my left ear, which completely robbed me of hearing through that organ. Immediately after this accident I was seized with a tinnitus aurium, which held out the dismal prospect of entire deafness. For this malady I had recourse to snuff; and its effects upon the tinnitus were soon perceptible. Stiff, however, the hearing upon the right ear remained obtuse, and extremely contracted my social enjoyments. I applied in every quarter, including his Majesty's Aurist, for the most improved ear-trumpet. From none of these instruments was the most trivail benefit derived.

"My thoughts being much employed upon the subject, it occurred to me that every ear-trumpet which had been sent to me conveyed the collected sound through a very small tube, the orifice of which was inserted in the ear. And now a prospect opened which afforded hope. I immediately ordered an instrument to be constructed, of the finest block-tin, one end of which included the whole external ear, and the other (circular also) of larger diameter, collected the sound, which was conveyed by a straight tube, of some capacity, into the ear.

"The result was most gratifying: indeed beyond my most sanguine expectation, enabling me to carry on a conversation with a friend, with the utmost ease to myself, and without exertion to the person addressing me.

"It is the establishment of the principle of this improvement upon the ear-trumpet to which I am solicitous to give publicity, leaving to younger men to make experiments upon the length and diameter of the tube, and of other parts of the instrument.

The only attempt towards improvement which I made was, the making a transverse section of the smaller circle, so as to approach nearly to the shape of the ear; and, by a little management, it answers my expectation."

LETTERL

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,In a late article in some of the London newspapers, on the subject of the disputes between the British, Russians, and Americans, relative to the north-west coast of America, the writer mentions claims of the Spaniards, grounded on the discoveries of Cabrillo, a Spanish navigator. The following statements, extracted from the "Introduction to an Account of the Voyage of the schooners Sutil and Mexicana, in 1792,” published at Madrid, in 1802, may not, at

Hypocaust, consisting of tubes, tiles, and bricks, similar been idle, having traced back the stream of the Nigeri to those which were discovered about seventy years ago in the great lake of Tsad, into which it falls, full 200 BRITISH, RUSSIAN, AND AMERICAN CLAIMS TO THE the same situation. These ancient relics were found in to the westward, and within 100 miles of the lake NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. the estate of Benjamin Haigh Allen, Esq. about twenty into whch Hornemann had traced its course. Its inches below the surface, and were first discovered by the it seems, between the lake Nyffe and the great lake T workmen on Monday, the 19th instant. The quantity of is Yaou, and on its banks are many pleasing vill materials is immense, and a number of carts have been several large cities in ruins, particularly that of Old B employed for several days in conveying them from their which is stated to be nine miles in circumference, and original station to Greenhead, the seat of Mr. Allen, where houses mostly of brick. It was piilaged and la it is, we hear, intended to form an antique erection of the Fellatas, a most powerful tribe of blacks of S these Roman remains. The tiles are 12 inches long by 5 about fifteen years ago, when those large cities of or 6 in width, and about 1 inch thick; and the bricks are Engornou, and the Birnie, near the Great Lake 21 inches square on the surface by 2 inches and a half founded by the present Sheik of Bornoe. We have thick; they are both scored in squares in imitation of the a letter from Lieutenant Clapperton, in which hed tessellated work. There is also a floor of tubes for the in raptures, the beauties of the Tsad and its passage of the hot air of the Hypocaust, either to heat islands, clothed with verdure, and the tall and a bath or a kiln, probably the latter. The tubes are Papyrus waving its plumy head high above the re checkered on both sides, about 12 inches long, and are at natives navigate the lake in large boats, fifty or a the end 6 inches and three-eighths by 5 inches. On one of long, sewed together like those of Masulipatam, the bricks is impressed the letters OH. III. BRE. (the Chave others with square sterns on which sheers and being broken off, and the O damaged on the left edge, for managing their fishing nets. How far this is giving it the appearance of a turned 3) indicating, no extends to the eastward had not been ascertained; doubt, that the Fourth Cohort, one of the Sixth Roman an interesting account, in the last number of the Legions, was stationed here. The inscribed brick, and Revice, of the progress of these travellers, the the checkered tube exhibit this appearance: tured that its waters may be discharged into the Egypt. Clapperton mentions the height of the! 1200 feet above the level of the sea, which is of the source of the Mississippi. The length of is 3000 miles; the distance from the lake to the ranean is little more than 2000. The fall, thes more than necessary for the purpose.—Sun paper,.

present, be without interest.

"Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sailed from the port of Navidad on the 27th of June, 1542, with two vessels, called the San Salvador, and the Victoria; and, proceeding with an examination of the coast, discovered a cape, in latitude 40 degrees north, on the 17th of November."-This appears to have been the utmost extent of Cabrillo's own discoveries; as, in consequence of the inclemency of the weather, he was obliged to return to the southward, and take shelter at Possession Island, now called the Island of San Bernardo, where he died; having, however, left pointed instructions to Bartholomé Ferrelo (the principal pilot of the expedition) whom he appointed to succeed himself in the command, "that he should push his exertions for the discovery of the coast as far as possible."

The vessels remained at San Bernardo from the 23d of November, 1542, to the 19th of January, 1543, when Ferrelo sailed; but stormy weather compelled him to put back on the 27tb. He sailed again on the 12th of February; and, after various delays (unnecessary here to particularize) he made Cape de Pinos on the 25th, and ran to the W. N. W. with gales from the S. S. W., until, on the 28th, he was in latitude 43 degrees north; and. on the 1st of March, saw the land, and ob. served in 44 degrees north, being the most northerly point reached by Cabrillo's expedition.

It may here be remarked, that, in all the assigned latitudes (with the solitary exception of Cape San Lucas) there is an error of about 1 degree 36 minutes, to the northward, of the truth, as is admitted by the editors of the work from whence the above has been extracted, which, as they justly remark, appears far from extraordinary, considering the imperfect nautical instruments then in use, and the inaccuracy of the

tables of declination.

Allowing, therefore, for an error in excess of 1 degree 24 minutes to the northward, it appears that Cabrillo's own discoveries reached only to 38 degrees 24 minutes north, and those of his successor to 42 degrees 24 minutes north.

north, a space of 336 miles of latitude.

COH. IIII. BRE.

A very curious work has just been publish John Landseer, the eminent engraver and entitled "Sabæan Researches." "It contains de of a course of Lectures delivered at the Royal h the object of which was to prove, that the eng ders dug up at Babylon, &c. were the a among the ancient star-worshipping nations of the same alluded to in the Bible and by thee rians. Mr. Landseer also seeks to show, tha glyphics have reference to the periodical i and the judicial astrology of those nations the author has displayed a most persevering surprising acuteness; and has not forgotte book by that terse and sprightly style, and th of allusion, which always characterise his serve, in this instance, to carry the reader ph over some very difficult and frequently obstr The light here thrown on Babylonian p various expressions in the Bible is extremely

And Whitaker in his Mancunium says "The long-lost town of Cambodunum is at Slack, where are four closes, which are called the Eald or Old Fields, adjoining to the contain an area of 12 or 14 acres, and are watered by a tract of the Roman road from Manchester. These fields couple of brooks that meet just at the village, and curve Curiosities of Penmanship.-We have just round the sides of it. Along the extended area of the some specimens of chirography, executed in a fields, foundations of buildings have been discovered, this town, which, for ingenuity, surpass some have been cleared of these crowded foundations, pography, so exactly resembling the imp some of them being a yard in thickness. Two of the kind probably in this country. They ar but two others still remained entirely filled up with about the size of long primer, as to mock them, and the farmers have frequently broken their tiny. What is more remarkable, however, and ploughs here. Urns, bones, and slips of copper have also scarcely be believed, some of the specimens co The name of New Albion was imposed on the coast, from been found. A great quantity of bricks have been dis- books, comprising nearly 200 pages duodecimo, 38 degrees to 48 degrees north, in consequence of the discove-covered in the foundations, some of which were long, and and accurately printed matter, all the work of ries of Sir Francis Drake, in 1578; but, Cabrillo and Ferrelo's some square, and all of a very beautiful red. The latter Whatever may be thought of so singular a taste, bricks were frequently 22 inches in the square, and were ductions are certainly most astonishing mo voyage having preceded Drake's thirty-six years, the British found in the floorings of some of the houses. Brass coins patience, exhibiting the wonderful powers claims, from Drake's discoveries, are limited to the coast com- have also been found, one of which was inscribed......derful instrument the pen in a very extraordies prehended betwixt 42 degrees 24 minutes, and 48 degrees CAES. AVG. P. M. TR. on one side, and S. and a C.-American paper. in the middle, and PVBLIC......round the margin of the Georama. A Frenchman of the name of L other. A Roman Hypocaust has also been found, on the was dug up a Roman altar and its basis, bearing an in- best geographers in Paris, in completing his western side of which had probably stood a temple, where at this moment busily engaged, in conjunction scription, which at length may be read thus Fortune a Georama, which he is erecting at an immetr Sacrum Caius Antonius Modestus Centurio Legionis on the Boulevards Italien, in a garden at the Sexta Victricis Pia Fidelis votum solvit lubens merito,'Café de la Paix. The Georama is to consist of rious Pius and Faithful Legion, consecrated this altar to presented a complete map of the world, descri Caius Antonius Modestus Centurion to the Sixth Victo- of forty feet diameter, in the inside of which Fortune, and with pleasure discharged the vow which he exact scale, the extent of every country, owed." mountain in the atlas, as well as the scite of all The workmen are still exploring this interesting station; roads, capitals, principal towns, and remaria and the country around, albeit not much given to anti-in the known world, giving at one view the quarian pursuits, seems quite alive to the success of their the routes of armies, public vehicles from labours. Leeds Mercury. another, throughout Europe, &c. The poles as a point d'appui for circular stairs in the which the spectators will have the facility of observations; in a room adjoining, will be cabinet de lecture for French and foreign jource another apartment will be given lectures on topography, &c. Should the undertaking suced Monsieur L. tells me he shall endeavour to esta milar exhibition in London. He expects hibition on the first of April next.-Prints Lettr

So far as I can learn, the Spaniards lay no claim to any discoveries farther to the northward than Ferrelo's, until 1774, when, it is said, Don Juan Perez, in the ship Santiago, which had saited from San Blas, to make discoveries on the north-west coast of America, was at anchor near Point Estevan, in a harbour he called San Lorenzo, where he traded with the natives; and which Captain Cook, having visited in 1784 (i. e. four years after Perez) and considering himself the first discoverer, called King George's Sound, now better known by the name

of Nootka Sound, which lies, according to the best authori-
ties, in latitude 49 degrees 35 minutes 16 seconds north, and

longitude 126 degrees 36 minutes 37 seconds west of Green-
wich.
P. V.

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

At Slack, in the township of Longwood, in the parish of Huddersfield, which is now pretty generally admitted by antiquarians to be the Cambodunum of Antonine, there has been dug up within these few days a Roman

The Niger. The course and termination of this mysterious river is on the eve of being finally settled. Private letters have been received from the African travellers, Dr. Oudney, Lieutenant Clapperton, and Major Denham, so late as the middle of July last, from Bornou, where they still remained under the protection of the Sheik, waiting their further proceedings to the eastward until the rainy season shall have ceased. In the mean time they have not

The Bouquet.

Theet here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brisht nothing of my own but the thread that ties them."

MONTAIGNE.

THE FRENCH SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

tion.

oaths are no arguments.

the loudness of a laugh, or the sudden burst of exclama- | chuses this, not as better, but because there
It is an indispensible preliminary to all disputes, that is not a pin to choose. He finds doubts and
If any disputant slap his hand upon the table, let him scruples better then resolves them, and is
be informed that such an action does not clinch his argu- alwayes too hard for himself. His learning
ment, and is only pardonable in a blacksmith or a butcher. is too much for his brain; and his judgement
If any disputant offer a wager, it is plain he has nothing
else to offer, and there the dispute should end.
too little for his learning, and his over-opi-
He who speaks above the natural key of his voice, casts nion of both spoils all. Pity it was his mis-
an imputation on his own courage; for cowards are
loudest when they are out of danger.
chance of being a Schollar; for it do's onely
distract and irregulate him, and the world by
him. He hammers much in generall upon
our opinions uncertaintie, and the possibility
of erring makes him not venture on what is
true. He is troubled at this naturalnesse of
Religion to Countries, that Protestantisme
should be born so in England, and Popery
abroad, and that fortune and the Sarres
should so much share in it. He likes not
this connexion of the Common-weal, and Di-

bese excellent establishments are certainly a credit to
metropolis of France. Their number is five: the
of Montmarter, Pepincourt, or Menilmontant,
Graelle du Roule, or de Monceux, and de Ville Juif,
Irs. The whole is under the superintendence of the
Contradictions are no arguments; thus expressions should
, and there is a particular court, to which all disputes not be made use of, such as That I deny" There
ire to the Slaughter-houses, or Abbattoirs, are referred. you are mistaken" That is impossible;" or any of the
e buildings were planned in the time of Louis XVI.; like blunt assertions, which only irritate, and do not eluci
be continual wars in which that Prince was engaged date.
red the erection. Under the reign of Napoleon,
The advantages of rank or fortune are no advantages in
two-thirds of the work were finished, and the re- argumentation; neither is an interior to offer, nor a su-
der has been executed under the present French mo-perior to extort, the submission of the understanding; for
When a butcher wishes to kill his beasts at any every man's reason has the same pedigree-it begins and
Slaughter-houses, he applies to the court, under ends with himself.
e guidance the Abbattoirs are, and it grants him a
fof an echand-sir, or compartment of the Abbattoir,
sire one, or more than one, according to the num-
animals he usually kills. For these he pays, by
gad, for an ox, six francs, or five English shillings;
calf, two franes, or one shilling and eightpence;
for a sheep, half a frane, or five-pence. The mo-
al for this liberty is received before the animals
They are then placed in a species of stable. of
A each batcher has his share. Over these stables
bits in which the provender of the animals is kept.
the butcher is desirous of killing a beast he has the

.

mience of a stable, in which his horse may safely be (in the interim; and also a room exclusively to hima which he takes off his usual garments, and assumes more suited to the work of death. The blood of minal is carefully caught in a species of drain, and then cold it is taken away and put into tubs for the we of being employed in refining sugar. The profes from its sole go to the support of the Abbattoir, and yment of the Inspector, and the servants of the The different slaughter-houses are copiously supith a stream of water, laid on in the pip: s, and thus, en killing days, no unpleasant scene is exhibited. are also several melting houses, in which the fat of the air is boiled, and afterwards applied to the various of the capital. In addition to these conveniences se expressly devoted for cleaning the intestines and the dead animals. For these, as well as the tallow, persons contract, with a proportional drawback, to the Government. The days for bringing ani In the slaughter-house are Monday and Thursday, latter is the principal day; those for killing are Saturday, and Sunday. A certain modern English has charged the slaughter-houses of his own with being scenes of filth and cruelty," and Bitutes a comparison between them and those of very favourable to the latter. It would have been per for him to have examined the slaughter-houses England and France, before he hazarded the asand then perhaps he would have perceived, that ter had the advantage in one way, they lost it in Either he has never seen a slaughter-house in except during the act of killing, or he has never french slaughter honse on a Sunday. Had he sen of slaughter in both, he would have satisfied him there is not so much difference between them as Certainly the mode adopted by the French of heep and calves, is in some degree less cruel than lish manner. But with an English butcher one two at most, will suffice to lay the animal senseless, a French butcher gives at least eight or ten blows, letines to the barbarous extent of forty.

MAXIMS ON DISPUTATION,

ho enters into a dispute with another, should bear
Pince what his opponent in the argument has to
support of the opinion he advances.
Bogizes a controverted opinion ought to lay it down!
much conciseness, temper, and precision, as e can.

gument once confuted, should never be repeated,
ared into any other shape by sophistry and quibble
st, pun, or witticism, tending to turn an opponent
asoning into ridicule, or raise a laugh at his ex-
ught by any ineans to be attempted; for this is an
pon the temper, not an address to the reason of

Let us make TRUTH the only object of our controversy; and, whether it be of our own finding, or of another's bestowing, let us think it worth our acceptance, and entertain it accordingly.

EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.

If a man dispute in a provincial dialect, or trip in his grammar, or-being Scotch or Irish-use national expressions, provided they convey his meaning to the understanding of his opponent, it is a foolish jest to turn them into ridicule, for a man can only express his ideas in such language as he is master of. Let the disputant who confutes another forbear from tri-vinity, and fears it may be an Arch practice. umph; forasmuch as he who increases his own knowledge by conviction, gains more in the contest than he who con- of state. In our differences with Rome he is verts another to his opinion; and the triumph more be- strangly unfixt, add a new man every new comes the conquered than the conqueror. day, as his last discourse, Books, Meditations, transport him. He could like the gray hairs of Popery, did not some dotages there stagger him; he would come to us sooner but our new name affrights him. He is taken with their miracles, but doubts an imposture ; he conceives of our doctrine better; but it seemes too empty and naked; he cannot drive into his fancy the circumscription of Truth to our corner, and is as hardly perswaded to think their old Legends true. He approves well of our Faith, and more of their works, and is sometimes much affected at the zeal of Amsterdam. His conscience interposes it MICRO-COSMOGRAPHIE; or, a Piece of the self betwixt Duellers, and whilst it would WORLD DISCOVERED; in ESSAY ES, and CHARACTERS. By ER JNO, EARLE. The part both, is by both wounded. He will Eighth Edition. London: printed by R. D. for sometimes propend much to us upon the read

The following memorandum was found stuck against
the wall of the house, No. 1, Westmorland-street, now
pulling down by the Bank of Ireland:
"LONGEVITY-In Hungary, the family of John Kowin:
"The father lived.
172 years.
.164
"The wife ......
do.
....142 do..
"They were married
do.
"The youngest of their children was....115
"This was in the year of our Lord, 1722.

P. C. 1664.

"JAMES BELLWOOD."

REVIVIANA.

[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.

ing a good Writer, and at Ballarmine recoils
as farre back again, and the Fathers justle
53. A SCEPTICK IN RELIGION is one him from one side to another. Now Sosinus.
that hangs in the ballance with all sorts of and Vorstius a fresh torture him, and he
opinions, whereof not one but stirres him,
agrees with pope worse then himself. He
and none sways him. A man guiltier of cre
his foot into Heresies tenderly as a Cat
puts
dulity than he is taken to be; for it is out of in the water, and pulls it out again, and still
his beliefe of every thing, that he fully be- something unanswer'd, delays him, yet he
lieves nothing. Each Religion scares him bears away some parcel of each, and you
from its contrary: none perswades him to it-may sooner pick all Religions out of him then
self He would be wholly a Christian but one. He cannot think so many wise men

that he is something of an Atheist, and should be in error, nor so many honest men
wholly, an Atheist, but that he is partly a
Christian; and a perfect Heretick, but that
there are so many to distract him. He finds
reason in all opinions, truth in none: indeed
the least reason perplexes him, and the best
will not satisfie him. He is at most a confus'd
and wild Christian, not specializ d by any
form, but capable of all. He uses the Lands
Religion because it is next him, yet he sees
not why he may not take the other, but he

out of the way, and his wonder is doubled, when he sees these oppose one another. He hates authority as the Tyrant of reason, and you cannot anger him worse then with a Fathers dixit; and yet that many are not perswaded with reason, shall authorize this doubt. In sum, his whole life is a question, and his salvation a greater, which death only concludes, and then he is resolv'd.

(To be continued.

Correspondence.

HYDROPHOBIA.

TO THE EDITOR.

P. S. By the bye, I find that some literary pilferer is now circulating the following thingumbob through all the papers. If you will rummage over your series of conundrums published in your former volumes, and compare the puns with these, you will find many old friends with new faces. The paragraph runs thus:

SIR,-Observing with much concern the numerous ac"The following ludicrous explanation of the order in cidents which result from the ferocity of dogs, and the which some of the letters of our alphabet are placed, ocalarm with which their madness, real or supposed, afflicts curs in a letter to the New Royal Literary Society: The Scholiasts upon that ode of Anacreon, which describes the public, I wish to call the attention of my fellow- Cupid's being stung by a bee, state him to have been at townsmen to the necessity of diminishing the number of that moment learning his letters; and that in perpetual dogs, and to the best means of doing so. Several persons, remembrance of the pain inflicted by his winged assailant, lately bitten, have been obliged to suffer very painful he decreed that the alphabet should ever after commence operations to avert hydrophobia, or at least to lessen the With A B. The precedence of B to C has been explained upon the principles that a man must be before he can see. chances of its invasion. That the apprehensions, usually But for the ingenuity of recent investigators, we should felt on this subject, are but too reasonable, is well known never have known that the letter S was of most essential to those who have studied the history of hydrophobia, or service at the siege of Gibraltar, by making hot, shot; have been the melancholy witnesses of its afflicting symp-sty, nasty; that the letters U and V can never go out to that the letter N is like a little pig, because N makes a dinner, because they must always come after T; that the letters o, a, s, t, are like toast without tea (T;) and that a barber may be said to fetter the alphabet, because he ties up qq (queues) and puts two p's (toupees) in irons! These most important additions to our philological science, are a happy foretaste of what may be accomplished by a chartered company, expressly instituted for the encourage. ment of letters." "

toms.

Having myself given some attention to the subject, and seen one case of the disease, I may venture to assert, that, as no bite of the dog can be pronounced free from danger, however healthful the animal may seem to be, there is scarcely any accident which we are more interested in guarding against. Communities, acting on this persuasion, have, from time to time, attempted to limit the number of dogs. In our own country, a tax has been expressly imposed for this purpose, which, if it were generally levied, as it ought to be, would probably leave little cause for fear or complaint; since the lower classes, to whom the greater number of useless dogs belong, would, when taxed, relinquish this dangerous property. In the absence of a better remedy, a regulation has been made in some parts of the kingdom, that no poor person, who owns a dog, shall obtain relief from the parish.

It appears to me highly desirable, that every large town should adopt a similar regulation, which, besides its general expediency, seems imposed with great justice upon those who profess an inability to maintain themselves.

I would further suggest the propriety of extending the same restriction to applicants for relief from medical charities, the officers of which are so frequently annoyed in the course of their benevolent visits by these ferocious animals.

Should you think these remarks have any weight, the insertion of them in your miscellany may attract the notice of influential persons among us, and induce them to establish regulations which shall eventually defend the public from so fertile a source of alarm and suffering,

The Fireside.

"VIVE LA BAGATELLE."

X.

"In order to employ one part of this life in serious and important
occupations, it is necessary to spend another in mere amuse-
ments."
JOHN LOCKE.

"There is a time to laugh and a time to weep."-SOLOMON.

TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-As it is probable no other person will take the trouble, I now supply you with the solutions to my conun. drumatic crudities of last week. I also tender you a few more, which must be acceptable to every admirer of

BATHOS.

124. Because it is near O ( Nero. )
125. Because he was stopped by the Pole ice (Police.)
126. One is a theist, and the other atheist.

127. Why is there no difference between forty shillings and two guineas?

128. Why is the alphabet like the neck of a profound philosopher?

129. If two men bear the most perfect resemblance to each other, why does that resemblance cease the moment they begin to quarrel and fight?

130. (Proposed by J. S.) Why is a field of grainlike a peck of flour?

Fashions for February.

OPERA DRESS.--Dress of white satin, with china
a clochette trimming of crape, forming full plaits, or
asters, set on in three rows without stalks; next the hem,
quiltings. The bust trimmed with bouffont puffings of
silk net, confined by bows of white satin. Andalusian
mantle of pink satin, trimmed with ermine without spots;
a high standing up collar, lined with spotted ermine, fi
ornamented with small red roses and white Spanish bows,
nishes the cloak. The hair arranged in long ringlets, and
the latter very sparingly adopted. Necklace of two rows
of very large pearls.

WALKING DRESS.-Pelisse of gros de Naples, the
colour of the marshmallow-blossom, fastened down the
front with three large wrought buttons. Black velvet
bonnet, tied with marshmallow-coloured riband, and
crowned with a large full-blown rose and bows of velvet.
Long black Chantilly lace veil; the pelisse is made with a
narrow French collar, surmounted by a double frill of
A double gold chain with a watch de-
Urling's lace.
pending. Black kid half-boots, and yellow gloves.

To Correspondents.

Valentine's Day.—The Grand Jury have found a true bill
against Geoffrey Gimcrack, Bachelor of Hearts, who is this
day put upon his trial at the bar of public opinion. The
verdict will be favourable we do not doubt, judging from
our own impressions. The note accompanying Geoffrey's
valentine evinces a degree of diffidence in his own talents
from which we augur well. We might say, in the language
addressed to the renowned Tommy Thumb, "Your mo-
desty's a farthing candle to your merit."Seriously, we assure
our new correspondent that we shall be glad to hear further
from him. His valentine is easy, sprightly, and pointed;
but we must say, that that lady will have a stout heart
and no lack of modest assurance, who shall be bold enough
to reply to his advertisement. In truth, Geoffrey requires
as many requisites in a wife as Benedict in the play, who,
ere his heart was captivated by his Beatrice, exclaimed,
"But until all graces come into one woman, not one woman
shall come into my grace."

We sincerely hope, however, that Geoffrey may find his
white hen, by means of his present advertisement. If,
however, he would previously announce himself in person,
and commission us to act as brokers between himself and

any of the fair applicants who may address him in reply to

his invitation, it would greatly facilitate the negociations,
as we have some experience in this way. In evidence of
which, we can tell our correspondent, that in some in-
stances he has not been too visionary in his anticipations;
for instance, where he says of the wife he has in his mind's
eye,

"And when my avocations force to roam,
With holy kiss to greet my coming home,"
Now we can assure Geoffrey, that if he be a good and faith-
ful spouse, he may not only reckon on the salute at meet-

ing, but at parting too; so that in this particular be
have twice as much pleasure as he has imagined to bina

A Working Man's letter is too good for the object of his 1
P's letter to which it is intended as a reply, was ratarsta
pid, and only found admission from inadvertence.
TESTY CORRESPONDENTS.-If the controversy respecting the
classics, carried on some time ago through the
was so very scurrilous as Elihu represents, why s
wish to revive it? If, as we suppose, he interest
the lists himself as a champion, we suspect that his cas
is rather to have a tilt at Homo, than to throw ma
tional light on the subject itself. The style of h
not such as to encourage the hope, that the d
renewed, would be more distinguished for cours
good breeding than he asserts it formerly was. Hak
is addressed to Homo, to whom we shall presenta
ference to inserting it in the Kaleidoscope, as wed
to have amongst our correspondents a writer whos
a private pique, in such language as "That no persze
wished to screen himself from the insolent whe
such a pettish adversary as yourself," &c. Althou
the spirit of this passage that we object, we era,
chose, cavil at the composition itself, and ask the witế
what he means by "screening himself against whimingof »)
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L'HERMITE EN ITALIE.

We were on the point of proceeding with further lations from Les Hermites en Prison, when a more publication, by the same authors, made its appearand attracted our attention.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1824.

the traveller whose heart beats at the name of Latium,
whose imagination adds new charms to the enamelled
meadows, the gay hills, and verdant woods of ancient
Ausonia, till now known to him only by the descriptions
of the Latin poets, the delight and sometimes the torment
of his youth.

I left Paris in the month of October in a vélocifère,
which drove briskly through the dirty streets of the capital.
Hermite en Italie, the work to which we allude, has The sound of the conducteur's horn called the atten-
from the Parisian press within the last month. It tion of the good Parisians to his carriage, which slackened
ave all the charms of originality with English readers not the rapidity of its course till it reached the turnpike
neral, to whom an early translation can hardly fail to of Charenton. Then the horses fell into their accustomed
acceptable. Our esteemed correspondent A. W. pace, and we were carried on with a gentle motion far
voured us with a translation of the preface and first more suitable to the size of the clumsy vehicle, to which
7, which occupy as much space as we can venture to custom has given the name of diligence, and highly fa.
riate to one subject. Whether we shall confine our-vourable to the repose necessary for the poor conducteur
in future to selections from the best passages, or after the violent exercise his lungs had sustained during
give an English version of the whole, in a regular his musical performance.
ed series, we have not yet determined.

ment, and after the usual interchange of compliments,
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It was still dark when we arrived at Montargis: one of my fellow-travellers reminded me of the celebrity of a lady of the name of Guyon, born at Montargis, in 1648, whose fame was once spread all over Europe. A widow in early youth, and entirely devoted to the cultivation of her talents, she relinquished her fortune to her children, and occupied herself solely in the diffusion of her opinions. She opposed Bossuet to Fénélon, and delighted to call the former her son. She was imprisoned and afterwards set at liberty through the interest of Madame de Maintenon, who, however, abandoned her cause, when she found that she was again busied in setting abroad her doctrines at Saint-Cyr. She was then sent to Vincennes and to the Bastille, and having been a second time liberated, she shortly after closed her troubled career at Blois,' where she died in 1717.

We now caught a view of the Loire, approaching us in a winding course from Vivarais. This river fertilizes and waters the finest provinces in France, but it is subject to overflowings, which also too frequently lay them

Five fellow travellers, all young, and good humoured, As we approached Cône, our attention was roused by ' think our readers will follow this agreeable writer and most of them soldiers, were with me, steering their the noise of a dispute going on between the conducteur easure, even in a journey over the well-beaten road course towards the Alps. We remarked with some cha- and the postilion, who, having very narrowly escaped Cenis, and through the often-described towns of grin that there was not a woman amongst us, but the buoy-overturning us, apologized only by vociferating a volley It is difficult to produce a work possessing suffi-ancy of our spirits soon got the better of this disappoint. of oaths, much more expressive than those of Vert-Vert. rit to supply the want of novelty inseparable from Et so hacknied as that of a journey through Italy. found, however, that M. de Jouy does not conself to dry descriptions of palaces, churches, and as; but, observant of the promise given in his de ne point jeter son froc aux horties, he continues be part of a moralist and philosopher. Making ect to trace a faithful picture of the character, mancustoms of the people he visits, he introduces his their fire-sides, and confers upon him the priviguest admitted to intimacy in their domestic circles.

EDIT. KAL.

PREFACE. now, my brethren, that hermits are no longer re

and if St. Paul lived in these days, he would leave bis to travel over the world, Therefore, in leaving thetravel in Italy, I do what St. Paul would have done circumstances. I have hung up my cowl in my cell, not abandoned it for ever. Perhaps I shall be glad It after having seen that celebrated country, where much to awaken the remembrance of former glory

and where the attention of the stranger is perpe

ed to the melancholy contrast existing between the effeminate manners of the modern inhabitants. ly under the dominion of the French empire; I visited it again under that of the Austrian empire, recollections are confused. If you will accompany rambles which my memory will assist me to retrace

attempt to influence your judgment: you are at prefer either the German or the French yoke. Do to guess the exact periods to which my reflections for when you think you have me I shall be sure When I laid aside my cowl, I did not give up a ankish ill-nature; and, after all, the garb does not bermit.

NO. I.

DEPARTURE FROM PARIS.

a spell in the very name of Italy. How fraught ise of pleasure is a journey to this country for

The brisk trot of the horses and the shrill sound of the horn, announced our entrance into a village or small town; such were the means used by our terrestrial Phaeton to convey information to us. All ranks, it is said, are pleased by fine sights, but conducteurs choose rather to address

themselves to the ear than to the eye.

At Essonne, a hand-bill pasted up over the gate of a cemetery, advertised for sale the grass that grew within its peaceful precincts. What myriads of souls were destined, if we may believe Pytl:agoras, to be a second time reaped by the scythe! We none of us thought of bidding for the grass, since it seemed only just that it should fall into the hands of the inhabitants of the place, as it owed its growth to the nourishment afforded to it from the remains of their ancestors. At length we approached a town. Our horses redoubled their speed at the sound of the trumpet and of the smacking of the whip, and our vélocifère, taking precedence of the rival carriages upon the road, was the first to enter Fontainebleau. I remarked with pleasure the broad, regularly built, and clean streets of this little town, which stands on the top of a hill. We passed on our left the palace founded by Lewis the Seventh, under whose roof French poets began to sing at the time when the trouvères or troubadours first appeared in Provence. Francis the First completed it, and made it an abode worthy of monarchs. Henry the Third was born in this palace, and so lately as thirty years ago were seen traces of the blood of the man who died here by the hands of Christina of Sweden: this palace in short was the seat of the intermediate government which repaired the ruins of the revolution.

We passed through Nemours in the night. This town, built upon the ruins of the town of Grex, mentioned by Cæsar, is the native place of the lawyer Ilédalin, afterwards made Abbot of Aubignac, and the author of a poem called Zenobia, which has long since been consigned to the waves of that river, whose tutelary god boasts a more

waste.

Cône suffered much from the civil wars of the sixteenth century. This little town begins to be famous for its cutlery, though its manufactures are still very inferior to those of Moulins.

We had not yet lost sight of the Loire, and we began now to see dispersed in the fields through which it glided groups of countrymen carrying long sharp poles which they used, like the Latin peasants of Virgil's time, to drive their oxen as they lazily plodded along the painful furrows. This sight recalled to my mind the happy days of pastoral simplicity, described in the Georgics, and the plains, like these, fertilized by the efforts of skilful labour; I almost fancied myself at the end of my journey.

We passed through la Charité, a little town of which the Protestants possessed themselves in the sixteenth cen tury, by scaling the walls with the help of cords let down to them by some of the inhabitants of the place, as they stood shivering below in the ditches. I already imagined I heard, not the noise of the plane of the joiner of Nevers, but the harmonious sounds of his lyre.

Hail to thee, Maître Adam, poet of nature, whose delicate hammer beat time to thy verses, without wounding good sense and reason! Thy works, entitled te Rabot, les Chevilles, le Vilebrequin, remind us of the glorious surname thou so well deservedst-Virgil at the plane. Thy muse has taught us, that in thy hands bolts and locks may be transmuted into precious jewels.

Nevers, though gloomy and ill paved, contains in its narrow and winding streets very pretty girls. We were much pleased with the appearance of the girl who waited upon u at the inn of the Image, where we alighted; but the cheerful supper she had prepared for us did not pre

* The name of this poet was Adam Billaut.