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AND SOLD BY W. WETTON, 21, FLEET STREET, LONDON.

1824.

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PREFACE.

Periodical Publications, when properly conducted, are undoubtedly of the greatest utility to society. They diffuse through all ranks, a love of literature, and by disseminating instruction, improve and refine the manners of the people. The discoveries and observations of the learned and ingenious, the knowledge of which might otherwise be confined within a narrow circle, are by their means dispersed abroad, and rendered of more general benefit. The encouragement given by the Public to Miscellanies of this kind, has of late years greatly multiplied them, and they have been suited to the different tastes, studies, and capacities of every class of readers. The Antiquarian, the Astronomer, the Mechanic, the Historian, the Biographer and the Poet, have each been presented with Magazines adapted to his pursuits: and we have endeavoured to combine in our humble Publication, knowledge useful and entertaining to the above-named classes.

To our numerous Correspondents our most heartfelt thanks are due, and by our impartiality in admitting those which seemed likely to afford instruction and amusement, we trust, should we recommence the publication of the Miscellany, for a continuance of their ingenious and valuable assistance.

INDEX.

ACCOUNT of Sir W. Wyndham, | Ceremonies, funeral, of the anci-

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Arabian Method of charming Ser-
pents, 153.
Attempted authorship, 168.

Barometer, Spider, 26.

-Musical, 241.

Banyan Tree, 204.
Belles and Dandies, of the age of
Oliver Cromwell, 204.

BIOGRAPHY, select, 1, 6, 17, 19,
33, 49, 65, 81, 97, 113, 125,
125, 137, 149, 161 173, 185,

197, 209, 221, 233, 245, 257,
269.

Boissy, 119.
Brothers, the, 126.
Buildings, &c. in London, deriva-
tion of some principal, 11.
Bumper, derivation of, 25.
Cards, origin of, 10.
Calmucks, 27, 37.

Cause of regular figures, formed
by Hoar frost, on Windows, 206.
Card playing, rational, 238.

ent Mexicans, 265.
Chairs, sedan, 181.

Chess player, automaton, 247.
Confusion of senses, 193.

Corand and Atheta, 250, 259,
273.

Customs of Maldavians, &c. sin-
gular, 132.

Democritus of Abdera, 167.
Dinner, the, 190.
Dog, on the term, 76.
Domestic hints, 172, 196, 220,

268,

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Religion in America, state of, 195.

Report, Matrimonial for September, 229.

Retrospection and Association, 277.

Sandwich Isles, King and Queen of, 108.

Saturday night in London, 141.

Love and Jealousy, 198, 210, Shakespeare and Burbage, 215.

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Moonlight, a walk by, 183, 240. Mummies, Egyptian, 59,

Newton's Philosophy, 27.

Sketch book, 115, 129.
Starvation, voluntary, 169.
Stratford-upon-Avon, 69.
Stones, musical, 217.

Table cloths, history of, 217.
The table in the middle ages, 253.
Temper, 183.

New dictionary, specimen of, 230. Travels, 73, 89, 106, 121, 131,

Poor Ellen, 235.

Poetry of the Chinese, account of, 254. Poetry, 15, 16, 30, 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 63, 64, 78, 80, 94, 95, 96, 111, 121, 122, 123, 124, 134, 136, 146, 147, 159, 160, 171, 172, 180, 184, 195, 196, 207, 208, 219, 243, 244, 255, 256, 267, 283.

142, 155, 165, 177, 188, 201, 213, 226, 236, 251, 262, 279. Trojan war, 71.

Truth and Fiction, 38, 52, 66, 85.

Walking in Stilts, 193.
Welsh Tradition. 40.
Woman, 281.

THE OXFORD

Entertaining Miscellany.

MEMOIR OF

MADAME CATALANI. THE distinguished Character, who forms the subject of our present memoir, was born in Sinigaglia, a small town in the Papal territories, about the year 1782. Though the accident of birth can add nothing, in the sight of universal reason, to those mental or physical qualities which lead to excellence, and which nature only can bestow, it is, however, due to the celebrated ANGELICA CATALANI to say, that she was born of parents highly respectable though poor; and that this circumstance, which in England only facilitates the approach to the temple of fame, was nearly depriving the world of those splendid powers, which are the admiration

of the present, and will continue to be the theme of future ages. Madame Catalani owed more to birth than to fortune; and she was therefore destined to take the veil, like other females, similarly circumstanced. When fortune

and birth stand at a distance, and view each other with a jealous eye, the one too proud to court, and the other too capricious to favour, the nunnery is the only asylum which the pride of birth has discovered in Italy to secure the fair sex from the contingencies of circumstances and situations. Angelica, however, discovered such superior powers during her novitiate in singing the praises of her Creator, that her parents were induced by the solicitations of friends, to change their intention of withdrawing their daughter from all commerce with the world. She was accordingly suffered to cultivate her musical powers; and the combined energies of nature and of art soon qualified her to take the first parts in serious opera.

Her vocal powers,

however, were not the only qualities which recommended her to public favour. Beauty and youth when accompanied by elegance and grace of deportment, will not easily yield their contested sovereignty to the dominion of music.

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