The Traveller.

VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.

(From the Literary Gazette.)

I the last Literary Gazette we had the satisfaction of
ecting together the interesting accounts of Captain
anklia's and Captain Beechey's proceedings within the
ic circle; and at the same time we promised our readers
e further details of the voyage performed by the latter
Ligent officer. Of this pledge we now hasten to acquit
elves, without preface, as we cannot but reckon every
umstance connected with the subject to be of sufficient
lic importance to recommend itself to attention.
rom Woahoo the Blossom sailed on the 31st of May,
3, and made an excellent voyage of thirty seven days
watoka Bay, in Kamschatka. The sudden transition
1 the parched up hills of the Sandwich Islands to the
-capped mountains of their new quarters, with a de-
sion of fifty degrees of the thermometer, was very sen-
y felt by our countrymen. Still, however, the scene
exhilarating beyond the natural concomitant of a
n, bracing atmosphere; and the more so, as it encou-
ed a hope that it would speedily stop the effects of an
dious disease of the stomach, which had unfortunately
ied off several of the crew, and still hung over their
mander, as well as other officers and seamen. Here,
curious enough to remark, letters and packets from
land were received, one of which had travelled over-
through Russia, and another had been brought from
th America by Baron Wrangle!
From this point, on July 4th (as stated in our last) the
ssom proceeded to Kotzebue Sound, Behring's Straits;
ere our voyagers remained till the frost set in, having
eviously been left, though not quite alone, by all ani-
sted nature. The birds, indeed, had all migrated, and
caverns and cliffs, which were wont, on a fine sunny
, to reverberate with the chorus and cries of the feathery
les, were now mute; but still the baying of the seals,
hey scaled their slippery resting-places, nightly broke
alence of the scene, and reminded the solitary ship
there were other living things on the lonely shore be-
its hardy and gallant navigators.

The preceding parts of the voyage, as we see by another erate letter (dated Nov. 1826, Port Francisco,) from a thful mariner to whom the whole was new and strange,

westward. These are all of the same form, and covered,
as I have noticed, with stunted trees. Gambier's excited
most of our attention, from their fine appearance, and
being so little known. We anchored in the midst of them,
on the 31st of December, and observed vast mumbers of
the inhabitants, who had collected on the nearest land to
us, and were all armed with long spears.

were obliged to surrender their last hope of being joined by Captain Franklin, and sail for St. Francisco. The Blossom had been for some time on but scanty allowances, and was now only provisioned for three months.

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

To T. Don, of No. 9, Lower James-street, Goldensquare, millwright, and A. Smith, of No. 28, Wells. street, Oxford-street, builder, for their methods of making shutters and blinds of iron or steel, or any other metals or composition thereof, and improved methods of constructing and fixing shutters and blinds of iron or steel, or any other metals or materials, and methods of uniting in shutters the double properties of shutters and blinds.Dated the 15th of June, 1827.—2 months allowed to enrol specification.

To L. Dexter, of King's Arms Yard, Coleman-street, London, Esq., for improvements in machinery, communicated from abroad, for the purpose of spinning wool, cotton, and other fibrous substances.-16th of June.6 months.

"On the previous day we had the misfortune to lose the cutter and one man, who was swallowed by the surf; the rest of the officers and crew had a narrow escape. I passed New-year's night dully enough, on board the little schooner, being ordered to remain there, and keep a look out against the natives, who were hourly becoming more troublesome. On the following morning the captain, with a party of officers and marines, came on board of us, and we proceeded to a village in order to have some communication with these people. The captain, before our reaching the shore, went away in the gig, and finding it unsafe to land with so small a force in the face of two or three hundred savages, pulled along shore to a place which was rather more deserted, where he landed and walked up to a party of the natives. That he might inspire them with To Rear Admiral Henry Raper, of Baker-street, Marygreater confidence, he laid down his fowling-piece, which la-bonne, for a new system of signals; first, for commubeing seen by one upon the watch, was immediately seized nicating by day, by means of flags, &c., in which system and carried off, the fellow being vainly, though closely pur- the colours of the flags which have heretofore served to sued by one of the officers. The whole concourse of na- distinguish the signals, and are subject to be mistaken, tives, whose attention was heretofore taken up by us, now may be dispensed with; and, secondly, for communicating, rushed towards the scene of tumult, and commenced a by night, by means of light, and which system of signals general action by discharging volleys of stones, which was is more conspicuous, expeditious, and certain than any very opportunely put a stop to by a few shots from our hitherto employed.-21st of June.-2 months. twelve-pound carronade, which astonished them the more To Lieut. James Marshall, of Chatham, Kent, for imfrom their being totally unacquainted with fire-arms.—provements in mounting guns or cannon.-26th June.— After this affray, we of the schooner contrived to effect a 6 months. landing, and have a view of their huts; being, to all ap pearances, perfectly good friends, saluting each other, not with hearty shakes of the hand, but by a warmer mode, (the sun nearly vertical,) that is, by rubbing noses, and finishing with a sort of grunt. This amicable understanding lasted till we were about to depart, when they again became very annoying, and tried to detain one of the officers, by seizing his cutlass; but having disengaged himself, he regained his companions, and we could not quit ourselves without a volley of musketry, by which a few of these ignorant creatures were stretched on the ground.

"Taheite is a delicious island; the fruits various and exquisite. They proved fatal to poor Crawley, however, owing to his indulging in them too freely. He fell a victim to the inflammation, on the 3d of May, after six weeks' suffering, and was much lamented by his brother officers. Three days later, the Captain's steward died of the same complaint. Mr. Lay, the naturalist, was also severely affected, but recovered."

te not devoid of interest. *We left Valparaiso," says our correspondent, "on 29th of October, 1825, and ran down the trade wind We made Easter Island, where we met with so uncivil eption from the natives, that broken heads were the sequence. Luckily none of the wounds of either Our young friend goes on to mention the arrival of the pers or men were fatal. The cause assigned for the Blossom at Owhyee, (we believe) esteemed the capital of ick was, the shameful manner in which the islanders the Sandwich Islands, which has much flat land fit for 1 been treated by an American South Sea trader, which cultivation, but it is not so beautiful and picturesque as empted to carry off several of them to another island. the luxrious Taheite. There are many Americans resibey escaped, if seems, by jumping overboard, but some dent here, and the missionaries are proselytizing the redrowned. Owing to the hostile spirit thus engen- natives, not much, it would seem, to their advantage. red, we saw very little of Easter Island. In the pas. The young King, about fourteen years of age, paid a visit ge to Pi-cairn's Island, we surveyed two low coral rocks, to the strangers. He was accompanied by all his chiefs, reted with stunted trees, where the surf beat with too in a double canoe, and was received with a royal salute, at violence to admit of our landing. Here we lost one and every other mark of respect due to sovereignty. He fellow from inflammation of the stomach. On was superbly dressed, very much after the fashion of an teain's Island only one of the much-talked-of mutineers English artillery officer, though his brown visage, peeping the Bounty now remains. Christian was cruelly mur- under his high cocked hat, created some merriment among red by a black man of the party, brought with their the mids. His chiefs were also dressed in the European ves from Taheite. On approaching, we were hailed by manner, with a great attempt at dandyism, though not whale-boat, with What ship, a-hoy?' and soon after a quite so successful as Bond-street or the Park. The spectable and reverend-looking personage, the patriarch voyagers left the Sandwich Islands on the 1st of June, and the place, John Adams, stepped up the side, and cor- made their way good to Kamschatka (losing a marine in the ally saluted us all. The same was done by his followers, passage.) Here they remained five days, and thence made e offspring of himself and his companions, whom he has rapid progress to Behring's Straits. They passed a few ained up in habits of exemplary order, morality, and islands, and were much surprised to find these and the rtue. From this time to our quitting the island, our adjacent land so free from ice. Reached Kotzebue Sound aphyment was very agreeable in visiting them ashore, July 25, and anchored off Chamisso Island, the appointed and walking over the high cliffs, which are beautifully rendezvous with Captain Franklin. The mosquitoes here wood with a great variety of trees, the most conspicuous were insufferable. Hence they sailed to the north, laying of which are the cocoa-nut, cloth tree, &c. After our down the whole of the land on their way, which has not day's fatigues, we were excellently regaled with roasted been done before by any navigator. Captain Beechy pigs, and the finest yams in the world. The whole num-stood as far to the northward as he could, in order to get Der of inhabitants does not exceed sixty, or thereabouts, a view of the ice, which he did in August, in lat. 70 deg. but the population is increasing so rapidly, that Adams 13 min. north, the highest (we believe) that has ever been confessed he felt considerable alarm lest the produce attained on the western side of America. The Blossom should become insufficient for their support. From morn- was then tacked, and stood back for land, about Icy Cape. ing to night they were almost constantly at prayers, and The natives, in their baidars, with dried fish for sale, often appeared surprised that we were not the same. We left disappointed the anxious look-out for signs of the overland them in December, leaving a good stock of presents; and expedition. The barge was despatched along the coast to on our course to Taheite, carefully examined and laid the east, but returned without success; and on the 14th down the low coral islands, which run all the way to the of October, to the deep mortification of every hand, they

To John Felton, of Hinkley, Leicestershire, for a machine for an expeditious and correct mode of giving a fine edge to knives, razors, scissors, and other cutting in. struments.-28th of June.-2 months.

To Thomas Fuller, of Bath, for improvements on wheel carriages.-28th of June-2 months.

To Walter Hancock, of Stratford, Essex, for his improvements on steam.engines.-3d July.-6 months.

To William Wilson, of Martin-lane, Cannon-street, for extracting spirits and other solvents used in dissolving gums and other articles employed for stiffening hats, &c. and converting such spirit (after rectification) into use.4th of July.-2 months.

To René Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill-row, for improvements in lamps.-4th of July.-6 months.

To George Poulton, of Stafford-street, Old Bond-street, for an instrument for writing, which he denominates a self-supplying pen.-4th of July.-6 months.

To Thomas Sowerby, of 'Change Alley, Cornhill, for improvements in the construction of ships' windlasses.4th of July.-2 months.

To René Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill-row, for his method of filling up with metal or other suitable material the holes or interstices in wire, gauze, or other similar substances, which he denominates metallic linen.-4th of July.-6 months.

To John Shelton Shenton, of Husband Bosworth, Leicestershire, for improvements in the mechanism of water-closets.-12th of July.-2 months.

To Edward Barnard Deeble, of St. James's-street, Westminster, for a new construction and combination of metallic blocks for forming caissons, jetties, piers, quays, embankments, light-houses, foundations, walls, &c.—12th of July.-6 months.

To Robert Vazie, of York-square, St. Pancras, Middlesex, for improvements in processes, utensils, and apparatus, applicable to the preparing, extracting, and preserving various articles of food, the component parts of which are of different dimensions proportionate to their uses.-12th of July.-6 months.

"There are thoughts that will haunt us in spite of ourselves, and to which it is in vain to say,-begone, and let me be merry."-Kenilworth.

The exact date of the birth of Carew is not known; but he is supposed to have been born about the year 1589. He received an academical education, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and afterwards greatly improved himself by travel. Charles I. esteeming him one of the most eminent and deserving wits about his court, appointed him Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and Sewer in Ordinary. His abilities recommended him to most of the poets of his day, with whom he lived upon habits of the greatest intimacy, but more particularly with Jonson, Donne, and Suckling. Carew may be regarded, equally with Waller, as one of the refiners of English poetry; having less pedantry and conceit, and possessing, in an eminent degree, what is not to be found in Waller's poetry-sublimity and pathos. His verses, considering the time at which he wrote, are polished, and have a felicity of thought and expression not to be met with in those of his cotemporaries. He died in the year 1639.

REFORM IN THE LIBEL LAW,

Being a Fragment of an unfinished Piece, recommending a Refe in the Law of Libel, intended as an Appeal to Mr. Peel, the gr Law Reformer.

There is a country (though we have forgot

The place precisely, and it matters not,)

Where a strange punishment by law's inflicted

On writers who of libels are convicted,

Their manuscripts, their paragraphs, and notes,

Are cramm'd, by main force, down the authors' throats
Who, in the forın of forcemeat paper ball,

Are forc'd to gulp down paper, ink, and all;
And thus the bitter pill, for others meant,
Becomes the libellous knaves' own punishment.

We know, at least, one of this scurrilous tribe,
A self. conceited, pert, and prosing scribe,
Dull as ditch-water, and almost as shallow,
Who, if he were, by law, compelled to swallow
All the foul libels, all the stupid trash,
Which he has serv'd up in his weekly hash,
'Twould choke the fellow; sure as he's alive,
The operation he could not survive :

For though his throat were like a huge shark's maw,
Such heaps of rubbish soon would “ stop his jaw.”

GRAVE

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-The homely melody to which I have attached the following beautiful lines was suggested by an idea of the antiquated personages supposed to sing them. It is
in attempt at imitation in what I conceive to have been the diatonic genus of the music of the ancients; and it is also to the studied omission of one of the seven notes of the
scale it belongs to, that, I think, it partly owes its remarkable peculiarity.-It is necessary to have it sung and played two or three times before it can be understood; and
if after such a trial you should deem it worthy of being published by you, it is much at your service.
Yours, &c.
Liverpool, July 20, 1827.

THE SONG
SONG OF THE
OF THE ASTROLOGERS.

J. M. X.

Notwithstanding his apparent despair of shining frail casement, making all without cheerless and mi

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have until his friend Hood's taper is extinguished by

brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them." MONTAIGNE. ABSURDITIES, IN PROSE AND VERSE.

A very whimsical and entertaining volume has just been published under the title of " Absurdities, in Prose and Verse, written and illustrated by A. Crowquill." It contains a variety of pieces of what we may consider the Hood school, as the present mania for outrageous pun may be traced, we believe, to Mr. Hood, the author of Sally Brown, and a variety of eccentric ballads. Crowquill treads closely on his heels, and seems to acknowledge him as his great model. In the present collection he has dedicated the following lines to his great prototype :

"Wits may now lay aside their pens,
Their sallies bring no good;

Till thou art dead, they cannot hope
To URN a LIVELY HOOD."

death, Mr. Crowquill has favoured us with some
specimens of metrical bathos, which prove him to be
no mean proficient in the art of sinking. We shall
take another opportunity of introducing "a touch or
two of his humour:" at present we shall lay before
our readers a specimen of Mr. Crowquill's talent for
the pathetic; in which, in our opinion, he is more
at home than in the Bathetic, if we be allowed to
coin a word en passant.-Edit. Kal.

THE COTTER'S DAUGHTER.
[From Absurdities, in Prose and Verse.]
"Dyour sentiment."-School for Scandal.

It was a cold stormy night in December, and the
green logs, as they blazed and crackled on the cot-
ter's hearth, were rendered more delightful, more
truly comfortable, by the contrast with the icy
showers of snow and sleet which swept against the

The cotter was a handsome, intelligent old man, and afforded me much information upon glebes, and flocks, and rural economy; while his spouse, a venerable matron, was humming to herself some longsince forgotten ballad, and industriously twisting and twirling about her long knitting-needles, that promised soon to produce a pair of formidable winter hose. Their son, a stout, healthy, young peasant, of three-and-twenty, was sitting in the spacious chimneycorner, sharing his frugal supper of bread and cheese with a large, shaggy, sheep-dog, who sat on his haunches wistfully watching every mouthful, and snap, snap, snapping, and dextrously catching every morsel that was cast to him.

We were all suddenly startled, however, by his loud bark; when, jumping up, he rushed, or rather flew, towards the door.

"Whew! whew!" whistled the youth-" Whoywhat the dickens ails thee, Rover?" said he, rising and following him to the door to learn the

cause of his alarm. "What! be thee gone again,
eh?" for the dog was silent.
at, boy? On'y look at 'un, feyther; how the beast
whines and waggles his stump o' tail:-it's some 'un
he knows, for sartain. I'd lay a wager it wur Bill
Miles com'd about the harrow, feyther."

"Mary-woman!" cried the old man, trembling compelled to get out of bed. As he attributed his wife

"What do thee sniffle" call me not feyther-thou art none of mine-thou hast no feyther now-nor I a daughter-thou art a serpent that hath stung the bosom that cherished thee! Go to the fawning villain-the black-hearted sycophant that dragged thee from our arms-from "Did thee hear any knock, lad?" said the father. our happy home to misery and pollution-go, and "Noa!" replied the youth; "but mayhap Bill bless him for breaking thy poor old feyther's heart!" peep'd thro' the hoal in the shutter, and is a bit Overcome by these heart-rending reproaches, the dash'd like at seeing a gentleman here. Bill! is 't distressed girl fainted; but the strong arm of the thee, Master Miles?" continued he, bawling.young cotter supported her-for the tender-hearted "Lord! the wind whizzles so a' can't hear me. youth, moved by his fallen sister's sorrows, had venShall I unlatch the door, feyther?"

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Ay, lad, do an thou wilt," replied the old man; "Rover's wiser nor we be-a dog 'll scent a friend,

when a man would'nt know un."

tured again to intercede.

"Ha! touch not her defiled and loathsome body," cried the old man-" thrust her from the door, and let her find a grave where she may. Boy! wilt thou Rover still continued his low importunate whine, dare disobey me?" and he raised his clenched hand, and began to scratch against the door. The lad while anger flashed from his eye. threw it open the dog brushed past him in an in- "Strike! feyther-strike me!" said the poor lad, stant, and his quick, short, continuous yelping, ex-bursting into tears-" fell me to the 'arth! Kill pressed his immoderate joy and recognition. me, an thou wilt—I care not-I will never turn my "Holloo! where be'st thee, Bill?" said the young heart agen poor Mary! Bean't she my sister? Did peasant, stepping over the threshold. "Come, none thee not teach me to love her? Poor lass! she do o thee tricks upon travellers, Master Bill; I zee | want it all now, feyther-for she be downcast and thee beside the rick yon!" and quitting the door for broken hearted! half a minute, he again hastily entered the cot. The rich colour of robust health had fled from his cheeks-his lips quivered-and he looked like one bereft of his senses, or under the influence of some frightful apparition.

The dame rose up-the work fell from her trembling hands.

illness to her having eaten salad for supper, for he knew
that vinegar was but too apt to disagree with her,
began, instead of sympathizing with her in her sufferings
to rate her soundly for her imprudence. To his appeal,
Senora Clara replied, in a very weak tone of voice:
"Alas! my dear, it is no use to reproach me now for
what cannot be helped. Instead of wasting your time in
idle complaints, employ it in summoning my confesses
for I assure you I have only a few moments longer to live
Go, first, however, to my nurse, Juana, for, as she is well
acquainted with my constitution, she is the most likely be
be of service to me in my present distressing emergency

،، My dear love," rejoined the painter, " your nurse han and is gone to live at the other end of Madrid, in the Fu lately removed from her lodging in this neighbourhood encarnal, which is at least, as you well know, two goo hours' walk from this. You must be aware also, that th weather is just now very cold; and, if the gutters an water-spouts do not strangely belie the night, it is raining as if heaven and earth would come together."

He was proceeding to give several other reasons why he did not consider it expedient to set out on the expedition upon which he was ordered, when his consort cut him short, by complaining bitterly of his brutal insensibility. "I know what you want, you vile assassin," continue she; in order that you may take up with another. Get into bet you want to be the death of your unfortunate wife again at your peril; for, if I die, I will swear, with m latest breath, that you have mixed poison with my saliad 'My dear wife," said the painter, "I would have y Nay, thee art kind and good, fey-lumny; and, if you drive me to extremities, it will remember that the cholic is no excuse whatever for a ther-I know thee art-I zee thine eyes be full o' strange if I do not contrive to transfer your pains fro tears—and thee thee woan't cast her away from your stomach to your shoulders." thee, I know thee woan't. Mother, speak to un— speak to sister, Mary, too-it be our own Mary! Doan't 'ee kill her wi' unkindness!"

The old man, moved by his affectionate entreaties, no longer offered any opposition to his son's wishes, but, hiding his face in his hands, he fled from the

“ What's the matter ?" said she. "What's frighted thee, lad?" asked the old man, affecting scene to an adjoining room. rising.

"You strike my aunt! You had better not, Sir," ci the maid. "Just touch a hair of her head, and I scratch twice five runnels in your face with my na which, St. Ursula be praised, have not been pared i these six weeks."

Her venerable mother having recovered from the "Oh! feyther!-oh! mother!"-exclaimed he, shock of her lost daughter's sudden appearance, now drawing them hastily on one side and whispering rose to the assistance of the unfortunate, and by the something in a low and almost inaudible voice. aid of restoratives brought poor Mary to the full The old woman raised her hands in supplication, sense of her wretchedness. She was speedily conand tottered to her chair-while the cotter bursting veyed to the same humble pallet; to which, in the out into a paroxysm of violent rage, clutched his days of her innocence and peace, she had always reson's arm, and exclaimed in a loud voice," Make tired so light-hearted and joyously, but where she fast the door, boy, an thou'lt not have my curse on now found a lasting sleep-an eternal repose! Yes, thee! I tell 'ee, she sha'n't come hither!-no-poor Mary died!—and having won the forgiveness never, never. There's poison in her breath-a' will and blessing of her offended parents, death was wel-dence of a poor old woman, of whom he could gi spurn her from me!-a pest on her! What! wilt come to her. not do my bidding?"

"O! feyther-feyther," cried the young peasant, whose heart seemed overcharged with grief, "it be a cold, raw night-ye wou'dna kick a cur from the door to perish in the storm! Doan't 'ee be hot and hasty, feyther; thou art not uncharitable. On ma knees!"

"Psha!" exclaimed the enraged father, only exasperated by his remonstrances. "Whoy talk 'ee to me, son—I am deaf-deaf! Mine own hand shall bar the door agen her!"—adding with bitterness— "let her die!"-and stepping past his prostrate son, was about to execute his purpose-when a young girl, whose once gay and flimsy raiment was drenched, and stained, and torn by the violence of the storm, appeared at the door. The old man recoiled with a shudder-she was as pale as death-and her trembling limbs seemed scarcely able to support her-a profusion of light brown hair hung dishevelled and in disorder about her neck and shoulders, and added to her forlorn appearance. She stretched forth her arms and pronounced the name of "Father!" but further utterance was prevented by the convulsive

sobs that heaved her bosom.

Her husband, scarcely half awake, begged to know what was the matter; but all the answer he could extract from her was a renewal of her entreaties that he would procure for her a confessor, and the most solemn asseverations that she was at the point of death. Her cries soon brought her niece, who lived with her in the capacity of servant, to her bedside. This young damsel, having chafed her mistress's stomach with hot towels without effect, mulled as much wine, with cinnamon and other spices as would have cured all the cholics in Madrid for an entire twelvemonth. It was, however, no part of Senora Clara's intention to be cured too hastily, and she, accordingly, continued to scream and rave to so outrageous a degree, that Fabricio was at length reluctantly

This interruption did but add fuel to the wrath of painter, and he was exploring the corners of the room a stick wherewith to chastise the girl's impertinence, his wife renewed her outcries in the most clamorous and protesting that she was expiring from the effects ner, screaming and calling upon Juana and her confes poison, administered to her by her husband! The p painter began, at length, to be seriously apprehensive the consequences to himself, if his wife should die wit extraordinary a declaration in her mouth; and, there having appeased her by alternate entreaties and cart took a lantern, and, wrapping himself carefully it penetrated to his skin before he had proceeded a hu cloak, sallied out into the street, in a shower of rain v yards. All that he knew of his errand was, that J now resided in the Fuencarnal; but, in a heavy shor rain, an hour after midnight, it was not likely th would meet with many people to direct him to the better account than that she lived at the bottom of a at least a mile in length. Whilst he was cursing th on which he became a husband, and disturbing the neighbourhood with his inquiries, his afflicted partn on her part, scarcely less active. No sooner w painter fairly out of the house, than she called dov brother and his friends from the garret, and in a f nutes the old door disappeared from its station, and one, differently constructed, was fixed upon its Over the gateway they then proceeded to hang the (the usual appendage of a Spanish house of entertai with a large sign-board appended thereto, upon whi painted a dolphin, with the following motto und it :-"The Dolphin Inn; good entertainment fo and mule." Clara next sent for a party of her frie both sexes, according to appointment; and havin taken of an excellent supper, the violins and guitar up a brisk air, and they began to dance with infini and hilarity.

whole length of the Fuencarral, without havin In the meantime, the painter had travelled able to obtain any information as to the object search, and had just reached the corner of the which he lived, knee-deep in mud and water, a his patience completely exhausted, when, looking his own house, the noise of the revelry within bur his astonished ear. He was fully aware that the proceeded from his own dwelling, but so unacco did the circumstance appear to him, that he beg to doubt the evidence of his senses, and held up tern, in order that he might reconnoitre the pret his leisure. His astonishment may be better c than expressed, when the light revealed to him t

I the dolphin, swinging to and fro over the door. He od for some minutes like one entranced. He next an to scrutinize the appearance of all the other houses he neighbourhood, but found that they had undergone alteration. He then re-perused, syllable by syllable, name of the street, which was carved in large capitals inst the corner house. Every thing was in its proper ce, and even his own abode did not seem to have diged either to the right or left a single inch; but then re was a sign of a dolphin over the door! He pinched I slapped himself with considerable violence, to conbe himself that he was awake, and having satisfied self on this head, began to suspect that drunkenness something to do with what he considered the disorganin of his optics. Recollecting, however, that he had ouched a beaker of wine for some days, he came to conclusion, that his intellects were not impaired by ication, and that the strange alterations before him been the work of some demon of witchcraft. Anxious netrate the mystery as far as was possible, he emd the knocker of the door with so much diligence, the heads of half the people in the neighbourhood immediately popped out of the windows in their -caps, for the purpose of inquiring the cause of so recedented a tumult. Although drenched to the skin the torrents that poured down upon him from the sand spouts, the painter was determined to persevere, g care to increase each time the force of his applito the knocker, so that the music grew louder and rand louder. At length a man (to all appearance stler of the inn) thrust a shock head out of an upper ow, exclaiming

will

dence. After he had plied the knocker with his wonted therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”—
assiduity and energy, Senor Agraz threw up his window,[Deut. xxx. 19.] And again, "Choose ye this day whom ye
and having ascertained that the applicant for admission serve." [Joshua xxiv. 15.]
was no other than his friend the painter, hastened down
stairs to admit him, conceiving, as it was natural he should,
that some appalling calamity must have befallen him;
but when an explanation had taken place, he could only
attribute the absurd rhodomontade of Fabricio to the too
potent fumes of the good wine of Yepres, or St. Martin,
to the use of both of which he was notoriously addicted.
He accordingly assisted him to take off his wet clothes,
and then put him into a comfortable bed.
Fabricio had no sooner quitted the Calle de Lavapies
than his wife, with the aid of her friends, set herself in-
dustriously to work to restore the house to its former ap.
pearance; and having taken down the sign, replaced the
street door, and dismissed the guests, retired to rest, her
fingers aching with clattering the castanets, her feet wea-
ried with dancing, and her sides sore with the laughter in
which she had indulged.

At an early hour in the morning the painter returned home, accompanied by Senor Agraz, whom he had at length half persuaded of the truth of his tale, and who was extremely curious to satisfy himself of its authenticity. However, when they found every thing in its usual situation, and no signs whatever of the metamorphoses which had been described by Fabricio, he began to revile him as an incorrigible drunkard; whilst the astounded painter, on his part, wished that he might be burned for a Jew and a heretic, if some accursed wizard had not contrived the illusion for the express purpose of driving him out of his senses. They knocked, and the door was immediately opened by the niece, half dressed, and in her nightcap.

There is no room here, my friend; march about your
ess, and make a little less disturbance, or by St.
me I will furnish you with something for your night-
that will not increase the comforts of your situation."
I want no room but my own," rejoined Fabricio,
ad I should be very glad to know by what right you
se me entrance into my own house, and be hanged to
he ostler was, however, inexorable, and having damned
hero for a drunkard or a madman, hastily closed the
le, whilst the dancing and music within appeared to
mmence with redoubled energy. The painter devoted
elf in turn to every saint in the calendar, imploring
tance in his present extraordinary dilemma; but they
all equally deaf to his entreaties. The rain still
need to descend in torrents, the east wind was cut-
him in two, and the candle of his lantern was expi-ceivers of the theological writings of the Honourable EMA-

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WRITINGS OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.

THE following Resolutions are extracted from the printed
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NUEL SWEDENBORG, held at Warwick, 6th July, 1827.
Resolved,

IV. That, secondly, in regard to the origin of freewill, it is an interesting doctrine continually insisted on by the same Author, that man, during his abode in the present world, stands in the midst between two opposite kingdoms,-the kingdom of good, and the kingdom of evil, and that he is subject to the operation of the inhabitants of both these kingdoms, the consequence of which is, that he stands in a kind of equilibrium between both, yet vested with the power of determining to which of the two he will resign the dominion of himself and his affections. In this equilibrium, therefore, according to the above Author, consists the true ground of the freedom of man in spiritual things, since, if he were operated on by the kingdom of good alone, he would, in such case, be a compelled subject of such operation, and of course not free, as, on the other hand, if operated on by the kingdom of evil alone, he would again be a subject of com pulsion, and not of freedom, consequently, in either case, he could be no subject of divine law, divine control, and divine judication, since, being a necessary agent, neither law, control, or judication, could be supposed to have any effect upon him whatsoever, whether in the way of encouragement or of intimidation.

V. That hence, in the third place, are made manifest the incomparable value and supereminent excellence of the gift bestowed on man in the possession of the freedom of will. For in this gift is involved the highest proof of the Divine mercy and loving-kindness to every individual of the human race, and at the same time the high capacity, with which every such individual is vested, of becoming a child of his heavenly Father, by separating himself from the powers of sin and darkness, and associating himself with the heavenly host in the love and the practice of all that is good, and wise, and holy. Without this gift, therefore, man would not be a man, but a mere machine, consequently destitute alike of holiness and of happiness; whereas, by virtue of this gift, if he makes a right use of it, he becomes not only a man, but an angel, with the faculty, like an angel, of loving GoD above all things, and his neighbour as himself, and thus of inheriting eternal

life and blessedness.

Fashions for August.

WALKING DRESS.-A dress of white jaconet muslin, with four flounces, falling one over the other, cut in strawberry leaves. The body made high, and en gerbe; the in its socket, when, totally out of all patience, he sleeves, en gigot, with mancherons formed of muslin, cut more renewed his application to the knocker with in three strawberry leaves, each trimmed round with very 1 energy and determination than ever. I. That it is a point of the first importance to every hunarrow lace. A Leghorn hat, ornamented with branches 807," exclaimed a hoarse voice in the passage," fetch man being, not only to be fully persuaded in his own mind of fern, and ribbon of straw colour and green tartan; the euigel, and I will let fall some pretty considerable that he possesses freedom of will in spiritual things, (that is to strings in a long loop; Indian-red scarf of Chinese crape, cks upon that tiresome rascal's shoulders." say, in such things as relate to his eternal salvation,) but that embroidered all over with silk of the same colour; and sereupon the door opened, and a servant, armed with he should also have a clear and satisfactory idea of the origin superbly finished at the ends by a broad fringe, headed midable bludgeon, rushed into the street. with net work. Slippers of light blue kid. Parasol of Command you!" said he to the painter, for a fool, constituting the only just ground on which he can be sup-white silk, striped crosswise with chesnut-brown. you not take an answer? Have you not been repeat-posed either accountable to God for his purposes, thoughts, informed that the house is full, and that there is no words, and works, or capable of enjoying a state of future #frou ?” and eternal happiness.

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he printer persisted that it was his own house, and had add from father to son for upwards of a century. Dent, continued he, "my ancestor, Jerome Fa0. build it? And was it not left to me by my poor r. Mcholas, of blessed memory, at his decease ?" What trash is this about Jerome, and Nicholas, and no said the man.

Why, I repeat," rejoined the painter," that they *My incestors. I am an artist, well known and retela Madrid, and my wife's name is Clara. I trust batnot metamorphosed her into a bar-maid with your mitable sorceries?"

Late, come," rejoined the fellow, "every body knows this is the Dolphin Tavern: and, though I say it, not a more comfortable inn throughout Madrid. velived here with our good landlord, Pedro MonAnd his wife Catilina, man and boy, for these last years, and I think it is high time I should know the house belongs. Were it not that I entertain compassion for the miserable condition to which your has reduced you, I would soon thrash the he out of your doublet for you, and teach you how to people up in the dead of the night, and pretend to to their domiciles for your own." Thabether then shut the door in the painter's face, who, eng to prospect of further parley, once more set out, in Ok, upon his travels, and stumbling and plunging every step among the deep cavities of one of the worst edowns in Europe, directed his course to the house of xalent friend, Senor Agraz. It was three o'clock in the ting ere he arrived at the old gentleman's resi

of such freedom, and likewise of its inestimable value, as

II. That according to this view of the subject, the testimony of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg merits the most serious attention of all Christians, since in that testimony are to be found both the fullest proofs of the existence of the above principle of freewill, and also many interesting and hitherto unknown discoveries relative to its origin and importance, all of them supported by the documents of revealed wisdom, and at the same time confirmed by the conclusions of enlightened reason and of a sound and sober philosophy.

III. That first, in regard to the existence of the principle of freewill, the above illustrious Author teaches, that to all who acknowledge the authority of Divine Revelation, this existence is rendered unquestionable by what is recorded concerning the plantation of the two trees in Paradise, the one of Life, the other of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, on which occasion permission was given to eat freely of the one, whilst the most severe prohibition was uttered against eating of the other. [See Gen. ii. 16, 17.] For how can this fact be rationally accounted for, except on the idea, that the Almighty, from the beginning, hath gifted his creature Man with the most perfect freedom of choice, either to eat of the Tree of Life, and live for ever, or to eat of the Tree of the Knowlege of Good and Evil, and die? The Great Redeemer accordingly confirms the same idea, when He proposes to two blind supplicants the interesting question, "What WILL ye that I should do unto you?" [Matt. xx. 32.] and when it is said in the Revelations, "Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life FREELY" [Rev. xxii. 17.] And further, "I call heaven and earth to record against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing

OPERA DRESS.-A dress of pink crape, with two broad bias folds at the border of the skirt, pointed at one edge; the points erect; between these folds, and surmounting the upper one, is a beautiful embroidery, in a rich and splendid pattern, the same colour as the dress. The body is in the Anglo-Greek style, and is confined round the waist with a belt of pink satin, fastened in front by a camco-head. The sleeves are en gigot, and are formed of white crape, with mancherons consisting of three points in doubled crape, the same as the dress. The sleeves are finished at the wrists with antique points of blond; and next the hand is a bracelet of finely-wrought gold, fastened with a cameo, rather smaller than that which is in front of the belt. A drapery scarf is thrown. over this dress, of straw-coloured gauze, with broad stripes at the ends, of the deep China-rose-colour, and terminated by a superb yellow fringe. Hat of pink crape, with three tails of the bird-of-paradise; one under the elevated side of the hat-brim, the others drooping over the opposite side of the hat.