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will first of all be given to the public in the Magazine, and then in the usual quartos. This enlightened zeal and liberality of ours in the cause of science must make the African Association feel themselves" pretty damned considerable cheap," to use the expressive phraseology of Upper Canada. No travelling-contributor will be taken under 17 or above 70 years of age, and he must speak instinctively all the languages known since the demolition of the Tower of Babel, like the late Dr John Leyden.

Notwithstanding all these princely benefactions, a balance we find is still upon our hands, and we confess that we feel considerable difficulty in fixing on its application. Odoherty would fain endow a Foundling Hospital or a Magdalen Asylum; but the policy of such buildings is more than questionable. The Odontist proposes founding a College at Dinningyst, and Z is anxious that Missionaries should be sent to propagate Christianity among the natives of Cockaigne. But we shall let our readers into the secret a few pages farther on.

We have now spoken slightly of the probable application of parts and particles of two-thirds of the gross total of the returns. We come now to allude to the remaining L.200,000, which will become the annual netting of the Proprietors and Trade. And here we are necessarily led into some de

tails.

The readers of this our very hasty and rude Prospectus will have perceived, probably, by this time, that we intend there shall be no other Magazine but our own. The One is to supersede, or rather to include, all others; and we feel confident that a single moment's reflection will induce all the proprietors, editors, and contributors of the most respectable Magazines in the kingdom, to join the Great Concern. They had as well be swallowed up at once with a good grace. It is for their own advantage that they should be so. Their currents must join the vortex.

There are in Britain just six Magazines, as far as we know, worthy of joining the Grand Coalition-Taylor and Hessey's, Colburn's, the Gentleman's, Sir Richard's, the European, and the Scotch Episcopal. All these

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several corps d'armee, which hitherto have been acting without concert, and sometimes for one power, and sometimes for another, must come over with colours flying and drums beating to the Emperor of the North. All little differences of opinion must be laid aside; and the united Power may conquer the world.

Taylor and Hessey, Colburn, Sir Richard, Messrs Nichols and Sons, Mr Asperne's heirs, and Messrs Macready, Skelly, and Muckersy, must all hoist their flags under the great banner of the Sultan Ebony. Let them divide the £200,000 among them as they chuse, and let them spend it as they chuse, only our friendship for Mr Blackwood impels us to offer him a few hints on the application of his moiety. With the other proposed proprietors, being personally unacquainted, they might think we were using an unwarrantable liberty with them, were we to interfere with any of their private concerns.

To Mr Blackwood, then, we have to propose, first, that he present Michael Linning with a promise of £30,000, which is all that is now wanting to complete the subscriptionmoney requisite for the erection of the Parthenon on the Calton-hill. It is a most absurd thing in us to call Edinburgh the Modern Athens, and yet not to have the Parthenon to shew, in support of our modest and appropriate appellation. Such is the public spirit of all ranks of people in Scotland, that the subscription amounts to several thousand pounds; and Mr Blackwood, we are sure, will never think of grudging so paltry a sum. All that he will require in return, will be to have his name either inscribed in letters of gold, or engraved on a marble slab on the front of the chief portico, and perhaps his bust set by the side of that of Minerva. It does not, however, seem unreasonable, on second thoughts, that he should draw the rents of all the bottoms in the seats of the Presbyterian Kirk, which, we understand, is judiciously to be placed as a kernel in the shell of the Grecian Temple; and, as we shall get a call moderated in favour of the Rev. Mr L******, to preach in the Parthenon, Ebony may, after all, get 3 per cent for his coin.

In the second place, we humbly propose, that the Publisher make a loan to Government, on lower terms than Ricardo or Rothschild would do, for the purpose of annually clearing and repairing the Caledonian Canal. In the third place, we humbly propose that he shall dig a tunnel below the Frith of Forth, connecting our shores with the kingdom of Fife. This is a speculation that would pay well. We undertake ourselves to light the tunnel by a contrivance of our own that will astonish the scientific world, and put gas into bad odour. Mr Blackwood has many sons; and as his two

eldest boys will be soon able for a very responsible situation, they must be the Head Clerks of the Establishment, under the taking title of "Twins of the Tunnel."

In the fourth place, Blackwood must give a helping hand to government, to enable them to put the finishing stone to the Plymouth Breakwater.

Well, all is fixed, and a great deal more. But what become of all the contributors of the six Engulphed Magazines? Not a hair of one of their heads shall be wet. We take them all on trial, at fifty guineas a sheet.

I lift my eyes upon the radiant Moon,
That long unnoticed o'er my head has held
Her solitary walk; and, as her light
Recals my wandering soul, I start to feel
That all has been a dream. Alone I stand
Amid the silence. Onward rolls the stream
Of time, while to my ear its waters sound
With a strange rushing music. O my soul !
Whate'er betide, for aye remember thou
These mystic warnings, for they are of Heaven.

L'Envoy

TO VOLUME TENTH.

TEN VOLUMES ARE COMPLETED! AND BETWEEN

SEVEN AND EIGHT THOUSAND PAGES THEY CONTAIN;

PAGES OF JOCULAR OR SOLEMN STRAIN,

OF MELTING PATHOS, OF DERISION KEEN,
OF POESY FOR CLOSET OR FOR SCENE,

OF CRITICISM TRUE, OF SMILING WIT,

OF BOIST'ROUS HUMOUR, MERRIMENT EXQUISITE,
AND NOT UNMIX'D WITH BALAAM, AS I WEEN.

BUT, ABOVE ALL, THROUGH GOOD AND ILL SUCCESS,
FIRM HAVE WE STOOD TO BRITAIN'S MUCH-LOVED NAME,

HEWING DOWN THOSE, WHO, GODLESS, HONOURLESS,

HAVE SOUGHT BY WORD OR DEED TO WORK HER SHAME,
WHEREBY, AS ALL THE GOOD AND WISE CONFESS,

WE O'ER THE EARTH HAVE WON IMMORTAL FAME.

INDEX TO VOLUME X.

ABSTRACT, brief, of Mr O'Fogarty's Blackwood, Mr, letter of Mr Coleridge to,

Journal, 438
Acrostic, 348

Administration, of the Magazine, on the
late Rumour of a Change of, 743. Na-
tional Distress consequent on, ib.
Mo-
tives of the Editor on sending in his re-
signation, 744. Consternation of the
Publisher, and the world of Edinburgh,
ib. The Editor relents, and determines
never to part with his office but with life,
745. Rumour of the publisher's death,
and its consequences, ib. Effects of the
rumour of the Editor's resignation, in
London, 746. General meeting in Edin-
burgh on the subject, 748; and its re-
solutions, 749. Rejoicings and illumi-
nations on the Editor resuming his func
tions, ib. Effects produced by the ru-
mour over Scotland, 750; and by its
contradiction, ib. Remarks on these mo-
mentous events, 751. Proposal for pub-
lishing only one Magazine for the island,
752

Adventure in the North-west territory, 137
Adventus in Hiberniam Regi svera atque
perfecta historia, 319

Anastasius, or Memoirs of a modern Greek,
remarks on, 200

Ancient National Melodies, No. I. 554.
Song 1. Comparisons are Odious, a
Chaunt, ib. Song 2. Cobbett's Com-
plaint, a Dirge, 556

Ancient World, remarks on dramas of the,
738

Annals of the Parish, letter to the author
of, 666

Apologetical Note, 348

Appointments, military, 236, 356, 487,

605

Asia, remarks on Captain Cochrane's Jour-
ney to the north-east cape of, 741

Balbogle, Mrs Ogle of, 290
Ballad, a Lyrical, 123

Bankrupts, British, 235, 355, 486, 603
Barker, Mr, expostulation with, 216. His
retort courteous, 415. The Quip-modest
to, 587

Battle of Roslin, the, 299
Beacon, the floating, 270
Bell, the man in the, 373

Birth-day, the King's, in Edinburgh, de-
scription of, 304

Births, list of, 238, 357, 488, 608
VOL. X.

253

Blaize Fitztravesty, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, by, 557

Blue and Yellow, learning and liberality
of, 411

British Drama, the Modern, No. I. 53
Broken Heart, the, 170
Brown, Tom, remarks on his Table-Talk,
332

Bull, John, the, and the Morning Chroni-
cle, on the personalities of, 315
Buried Alive, the, 262

Byron, Lord, review of his continuation of
Don Juan, 107. Remarks on his Anas-
tasius, 200

Canada, the emigrants' voyage to, 455.
Review of Howison's sketches of, 537
Carder, Martin, the, a tale, 199
Cerebral developement of David Haggart,
remarks on phrenological observations on
the, 682

Characters of Living Authors, by them-
selves, No. I. 69

Chaucer and Don Juan, remarks on, 295
Cheese, civilization, and north country bal-
lads, letter on, 441
Christmas Chit-chat, 493
Christmas in Edinburgh, 691
Christophe, late Emperor of Hayti, letter
relating to, 545

Christopher Agonistes, 409

Cobbett's Complaint, a dirge, 556
Cochrane, Captain, remarks on his journey
from Petersburgh to the North-East
Cape of Asia, 741

Coleridge, Mr, letter from, 243. Selec-

tions from his literary correspondence,
ib. Letter I. From a professional friend,
ib. II. In answer to the foregoing, 244.
On the philosophical import of the words
Object and Subject, 246. III. To Mr
Blackwood, 253. IV. To a Junior Soph,
at Cambridge, 255. Substance of a dia-
logue, with a commentary on the same.
256. V. To a Junior Soph, at Cam-
bridge, 259

Columbus Secundus, the voyages and tra-
vels of, 33. Children's plays in Edin-
burgh, ib. Those of the Boys, 34, of
the Girls, 36. A Scene in the Grass-
market, 38. In Musselburgh, 40. Edin-
burgh Fish Market, 206. A chapter of
blunders, 210. The King's birth-day

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in Edinburgh, 304. Columbus mista-
ken for a highway-man, 308. Leith
Races, 389. Columbus disturbed by a
ghost, 398. Private Note, 403. Christ-
mas in Edinburgh, 691
Comedies, notices of old English.
127
Commercial Reports, 232, 352, 483, 599
Comparisons are odious. A chaunt, 554
Contributors, an expostulatory Round-ro-
bin from fourteen, 116
Coplestone, Dr, on his inquiry into the
doctrines of necessity and predestination,
192, 376

Corbet's, Bishop, remarks on his poems, 88
Coronation, the, Thomas Duffle's account
of the preparations for, 8, and the cere-
mony, 14. Account of a dinner in ho-
nour of, in Edinburgh, 26
Coronation Tragedy, remarks on a, 53
Covenant, the Whigs of the, 665
Cranioscopy, craniology, phrenology, &c.
Essays on, 73. Chap. II. 77
Critics, why are poets indifferent ones?

180

Edinburgh Review, on the learning and li-
berality of the, 411. On the rise, pro-
gress, decline, and fall of the, 668
Effigies, the, 168

Emigrants' voyage to Canada, the, 455
English Comedies, notices of old ones, 127
English Literature, on the personalities of
the Augustine age of, 312
Epistle Preliminary, the, 3
general, 476

Epistles familiar, from an old friend with
a new face, 43, 200, 217, 312
Expedition against the Pirates of the Per-
sian gulf, proceedings of the, 151
Expostulation with Mr Barker, 216. His
retort-courteous, 415

Expostulatory Round-robin from 14 con-
tributors, 116

Falkland Palace, account of a visit to, 61
Familiar Epistles from an old friend with
a new face. On Hogg's memoirs, 43.
On Anastasius, by Lord Byron, 200.
On the personalities of the Whigs, 217.
On the personalities of the Augustine
age of English literature, 312

Daniel O'Rourke, an Epic poem, Canto Feldberg's Denmark, remarks on, 172

VI. 429

Deans, a Jeanie, in love, 5

Death, singular recovery from, 582
Deaths, lists of, 239, 358, 489, 609
Denmark Delineated, remarks on, 172
Dialogue, substance of a, with a comment-
ary on the same, 256

Dirge, a mother's, over her child, 187
Doctrines of necessity and predestination,
remarks on Coplestone's inquiry into
the, 192, 376

Don Juan, review of the continuation of,
107

and Chaucer, remarks on, 295
Drama, the modern British, No. I. The
Fatal Unction, 53

Review of the First Murder, a

sacred, 321
Dramas of the Ancient World, by David
Lyndsay, remarks on, 730

Dramatic tale, the Vigil of St Mark, a,
341

Duffle, Thomas, the voyages and travels
of, 4. His account of the preparations
for, 8, and the ceremony of the King's
Coronation, 14. He contrasts that of
George IV. with King Crispin's in Glas-
gow, 1818, 15. London adventures of,
166. The wig and the black cat, 656.
Travelling by night, 658. The Odon-
tist's monkey, 660. The Covenanters,

661

Early Rising, remarks on, 570
Edinburgh, account of a Coronation Din-
ner in, 26. Of the children's plays in,
33. Scene in the Grassmarket of, 38.
In the Fish-market, 206. The King's
Birth-day in, 304. On the propriety of
purchasing a mansion-house and state-
quipage for the Lord Provost of, 449.
hristmas in, 691

Fifeana, No. 1. 60. Visit to Falkland

Palace, 61

Fisheries, remarks on those of Shetland,

728

Floating Beacon, the, a scene on the coast
of Norway, 270

Fogarty O'Fogarty, letter from, inclosing
Canto VI. of Daniel O'Rourke, 428.
Sonnet and lines to, 437. Brief Ab-
stract of his journal, 438

Funeral of the late Queen, remarks on the
proceedings at the, 222

Gall and Spurzheim, remarks on an in-
quiry into the principles and utility of
the system of, 682
General Epistle, 476

Giorno, Parini's, remarks on, 525
Glenlonely-Trout, Mr Snapflint's visit to
the minister of, 286

Good Town, the, on the propriety of pro-
viding a mansion-house and state-equi-
page for the Lord Provost of, 449
Gracious Rain, 186

Grave, the silent, a sonnet, 300

H.

Haggart, David, remarks on the cerebral
developement of, 684
Hans Beudix ; a tale, 264
Harold's Grave, a poem, 651
Haydon's paintings, letter concerning, 680
Hayti, and its late Emperor Christophe,
letter relative to, 545
Historical view of the rise, progress, de-

cline, and fall of the Edinburgh Re-
view, 668

Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd, re-
marks on his auto-biography, 43
Hop-ground, the, 623. Introductory let➡
ter, ib. Spring, 625. Summer, ib.
Autumn, 626. Winter, ib
Horæ Cantabrigiensis, No. VII. 552

Howison's Sketches of Upper Canada, re-
view of, 537

Hume, David, letter from, 303

Inquiry into the doctrines of necessity and

predestination, remarks on Coplestone's,
192, 376

Instruction, moral and religious, on its pro-
bable influence on the character and si-
tuation of seamen, 363, 514
Intellect, proposed improvement of, by the
cross-breeds of genius, 81
Ireland, Ode on the King's landing in, 94
-His Majesty's welcome to, 98 Re-
marks on the King's visit to, 224
Irish Melodies, No.1.613-Song I. To Saint
Patrick, 615-II. Lament of a Con-
naught Ranger, 617-III. Rafferty's
advice, 618-IV. The Gathering of the
Mahonys, 619-V. A real Irish "Fly
not yet," 620-VI. The impassioned
Wave, 622

Italian literature, on the decline of the Tus-
can ascendency in, 328

759

Lines on the King's landing in Ireland,
dedicated to, 449

Maga, on the outcry against, 217-Disco-
very of a treasonable plot against it, 406
See Administration

Man, the, in the Bell, 373
Man-of-War's-Man, the, Chap. I. 161-
Scene on Leith pier, ib.-On board the
Whippersnapper sloop of war, 162-In
Marriages, 238, 358, 488, 608
the Grab flag-ship, 421
Martin, the Carder, a West-Meathian Tale,
199

Mechanique Celeste; or, the Prophetic Al-
Melodies, Ancient National, 554
manack, remarks on, 701
Melodies, Irish, 613
Melody, the native, 301
Memoir of the proceedings against the pi-
Meteorological tables, 236, 357, 487, 603
rates of the Gulf of Persia, 151
Meteorological observations extraordinary,

267

Midnight Despondings; a Sonnet, 327

Italian school of painting, remarks on the, Midsummer-night's Dream, in blank verse,

528

Keats, John, remarks on an elegy on the
death of, 696

King James the Muse's welcome to, ex-
tracts from, 83

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the, Ode on his landing in Ireland,
94 Welcome on his arrival there, 98-
Remarks on his visit to Ireland, 224-A
true and perfect account of his landing
in Ireland, 647

Latin prosody from England, remarks on,
383

Learning and liberality of the Blue and
Yellow, on the, 411

Leg of Mutton School of Prose, the, 563-
The Cook's Oracle, ib.
L'Envoy to volume tenth, 756
Letter, prospective, concerning poetry, 125
from Mr Coleridge, 243
from Alexander Sydney Trott, Esq.

282

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by Blaize Fitztravesty, 557-Procemium,
Moonlight Meditations, 626
ib.-Drouthiness, 561

Moral and religious instruction, on the
probable influence of, on the character
Morning Chronicle, the, and the John Bull,
of seamen, 363, 514
newspapers, on their personalities, 315
Morsels of Melody, Part II. 188-The
pillow of the tent, ib.-Come, Mary, to
me, 189-To Betsy, ib.-The evening
invitation, 190-Absence, ib.-The
Wanderer's adieu, 191

Moscow, lines on, written after the invasion
of Russia by the French, 301
Mother's dirge over her child, a, 187
Mount of Olives, the, 634

Murder, the First, a Sacred Drama, review
Muse's Welcome to King James, the, 83
of, 321

National Melodies, ancient, No. I., 554
Native Melody, the, 301

Necessity and Predestination, on the doc-
trines of, 192, 376

North, Christopher, familiar epistles to,
from an old friend with a new face, 43,
200, 217, 312-Sylvanus Urban and,
103 Letter from Alexander Sydney
Trott, Esq. to, 282-Expostulatory let-
ter to, 292-Letter from, to Miss Sarah
M'Dermid, 446-Letter to, on early
rising, 570-Account of his resignation,
and the resumption of his office of Edi-
tor, 743-See Administration
North-West territory, adventure in the,
137
North-country ballads, letter from Mr
Shufflebotham on, 441.
Note apologetical, 348

private, to all whom it may concern,
403
Notices of old English comedies, No. I.,
127

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