Here we must break off for the present. the time of the covenanters, the reverend man Of the proposed assassination of the Em- son-in-law. His prayer was granted; and the not being able to hold forth in the parish kirk, peror Alexander, we learn. sentence of Prince Volskonsky commuted to as Montrose's troops were in the neighbour- "The grounds (of Alexandria, an estate of banishment in the mines of Siberia for life.* hood. These discourses were chiefly political; the Countess Branitskii, near Kief) in sum- After the departure of the unfortunate exile, they became the property of my brother Aber-mer are said to be exceedingly beautiful, his wife, disregarding the remonstrances and cromby on the death of my grandfather, who, and they may be so for Russia; but at the time dissuasions of her friends, requested permission at my son's request, presented them to Sir of our visit their winter garb rendered them of the emperor to follow her husband, which Walter Scott, and they are considered by him cheerless and uninteresting, except in reference was peremptorily refused; and she was inas a valuable literary curiosity." to a circumstance which I shall here mention. formed, that if she attempted to join him, she Mr. Gordon is, on more than one occasion, The conspiracy which broke out upon the ac- would herself be deprived both of her title and rather hard upon the late Dr. Burney. He cession of the present emperor to the throne of her estates. The threat was utterly unheeded; tells us : "His library was regarded as a na- Russia, had been in existence for some time (what, indeed, is there that a woman will not tional object, and was purchased by vote of the previous to that event, and had for its object, sacrifice for the object of her affections?) she House of Commons for the British Museum, it is said, not only the murder of the Emperor accordingly set off, and reached her husband, and estimated at the sum of 16,000. I picked Alexander, but also that of every member of nobly determining to be the companion of his up for him in my travels through Italy, in the imperial family; and I have been informed chains and his misery. She is, however, only 1800, the most rare and valuable book in the that the conspirators being aware the former allowed to see him twice a week, for three collection, Lascaris Grammatica Græca, Milan, would stop at Alexandria, during his journey hours at a time. As for the wretched prince, 1476, the first Greek book ever printed. It is to the south of the empire, had actually fixed I learned when at St. Petersburg, that he was so rare that five or six copies only are known upon this place as the scene of his intended then employed in carrying coals to feed the to exist. I purchased it at Ferrara, from a assassination. His majesty, however, arrived fire of one of the furnaces in the mines, being soi-disant marchese, for fourscore zequins, and before their plans were quite matured, and also heavily ironed. He had just petitioned ceded it to the doctor for the same sum. I had that circumstance alone prevented the consum- the emperor to allow his irons to be removed, also collected several other precious relics in my mation of the horrid project. I have also been but compliance with his prayer had been retravels during the Italian revolution; all of informed, during my residence in Odessa, by fused. Prince Volskonsky had a handsome which were added to the doctor's collection for an individual who was about the person of the house at Odessa, near the fortress; and Orlof an old song.""And he speaks of the learned late autocrat, that the latter was perfectly was building a large mansion on the new doctor as not having evinced due gratitude for aware as to conspiracies against his life being Boulevard, when this melancholy occurrence these favours. in existence, and that his visit of inspection took place. It remains, as he left it, unto the southern provinces of Russia was plan- furnished, and is indeed now rapidly falling to ned and undertaken for the sole purpose of decay. I never passed it without thinking of affording him a plausible excuse for leaving its owner, who is said to be distinguished for Travels in Russia, and a Residence at St. Peters- the capital, as the most probable means of scientific attainments; nor that of the unhappy burgh and Odessa in the years 1827-29; escaping the impending danger. I have, more- prince, without being forcibly reminded of his intended to give some Account of Russia as it over, been assured that he had purchased a fate, and unconsciously paying him the tribute is, and not as it is represented to be. By large extent of territory in the Tauride, where of a sigh." Edward Morton, M.B., &c. &c. &c. 8vo, he had commenced building, with the intention "From the commencement of the Turkish pp. 486. London, 1830. Longman and Co. of abdicating the throne in favour of his bro- war, it was the fashion for ladies to make OUR worthy countryman seems, from his title- ther Nicholas, and of passing the remainder charpie, to be used at the various hospitals in page, to have set out on his journey in a bad of his days there as a private individual." dressing the wounded soldiers. This was the temper, and to have returned in a worse; cor- The annexed is a striking picture of con-universal employment. The empress made dially to dislike Russia, and determinedly to jugal devotion. charpie, and the empress-mother made charpie, tell the reasons why. Yet he had good oppor- During my residence at St. Petersburg, and, of course, all the ladies of the court foltunities for making the best observations; and, I was professionally consulted in a hopeless lowed their example. Even the poor gentlewith all due allowances for the spirit of resent-case of disease, affecting the child of the un-men were enlisted into the service, and somement in which he writes, (having resigned his fortunate Prince Volskonsky, who is at present times, for the sake of being polite, joined in Russian appointment under a written protest, an exile in the mines of Siberia; and my the labour. Square bits of old sheets and and demanded a passport for England), the subsequent residence in Russia was the cause napkins, scissors, and a basket, were to be circumstance of his enjoying such opportunities of my becoming acquainted with the following seen on every table; and before dinner and entitles his work to a degree of consideration, remarkable instance of conjugal devotion in his after it, in the morning and in the evening, both at home and abroad, which its obvious wife. It amply deserves to be recorded; and all were busily employed in unravelling musty prejudices could not command,—at home, as a will, I am sure, excite the sympathy of the linen. I cannot say I thought it the most contrast to preceding writers; and in Russia, reader. Prince Volskonsky and Major-Gene- elegant or the most becoming amusement as a statement, however inimical, which may neral Orlof married two daughters of General at all times, and in all places, however laudsuggest necessary and useful improvements on Raiefskii, an old and distinguished officer in able in some might be the motive by which several points. the Russian service. In the conspiracy of they were actuated; I was, on the conOn the arrival of the George the Fourth 1825, which has been already so often alluded trary, rather inclined to believe that the steam-boat, custom-house officers come on to, both the prince and Orlof were, it is sup- really charitable would have done much more board; and here, as well as throughout his posed, concerned; the latter having been in- good in subscribing their money towards whole journey, the author vituperates these duced to take a part in the plot through the purchasing soft English lint, than in manufunctionaries and the postmasters as corrupt persuasion and example of Volskonsky. On facturing such an abominably coarse and illand imposing rascals ! the discovery of the conspiracy, secret orders adapted article for the dressing of painful and were instantly despatched from St. Petersburg irritable wounds as charpie. But it was not Dr. Morton's engagement with Count Vorontzof for the apprehension of the prince, who was the fashion to do so, and therefore I thought (Woronzow) was that of private travelling physician (and seized at night, in his own house at Odessa, it best to keep my opinions to myself. Hownot an official appointment); and as in this capacity a cover was always laid for him at the count's table, he had by two gendarmes, and hurried off to the constantly the choice of dining with all the highest no- capital. Orlof was likewise arrested, and bility of the country attached to the court. He remained thrown into prison; but, after six months' in Russia about twenty months, and in St. Petersburg about four (during seven weeks of which Dr. Granville detention, was discharged, without ever having also resided in the count's house; and against the said been brought to trial: he was, however, dedoctor's work he inveighs continually, as a too flattering prived of his military rank and honours, being burg he accompanied the count and suite to Odessa, also ordered never in future to stir beyond the where they arrived in 1828: in a few months after, the limits of his own estate in the interior. Prince emperor and empress reached Odessa, and took up their Volskonsky was not so fortunate: in due time residence at the house of Count Vorontzof; and this nobleinan being governor-general of the provinces surround- he was tried by the commission appointed for ing Odessa, whenever the chief officers of the court did that purpose, and condemned to death. Upon not dine with the emperor or empress, they dined with him-as did also the foreign ambassadors, &c. Dr. M. this, the old general, overwhelmed with grief, had thus daily opportunities of acquiring intelligence. reminded the emperor of his own former serHe had the honour to be presented to the empress, and vices, and besought his majesty, in the most afterwards was at several private parties where her majesty affecting terms, to spare the life of his devoted picture of Russia and the Russians). From St. Peters was. 66 ever, I may now speak my mind freely, without running the risk either of the knout or Siberia. I shall therefore not hesitate to declare, that in spite of all this attention, and patriotic devotion displayed by the ladies to the wants of the wounded military, the latter were in fact completely neglected." The doctor then goes on to exhibit the defects of the Russian government. "The existing form of government in "When a Russian nobleman is sent to Siberia, he is deprived at once of all rank, becomes a slave, and is habited like one, in a skeep-skin wrapper. His name is the province knows his real appellation or his former also changed; and no one, perhaps, but the governor of rank." sufficiently recovered to receive visits, with a * Russia,' as Bishop James observes, is a pure | "During the court mourning for the late popular among the Russians; but from all I Oriental despotism;' but it must not be sup- empress-mother, I observed, at one of the heard and saw, while resident within the autoposed that the emperor alone is despotic, all governor-general's soirées, Madame Fonton, cratic dominions, I am inclined to doubt the being so who have the power; of which the fol- who had only been married a few days, arrayed correctness of this belief. That the war was lowing are instances. During the summer of in white, the other ladies, without exception, agreeable to certain individuals, who reaped, or 1828, while the imperial court was at Odessa, being in black. Upon inquiring the reason of hoped to reap, important advantages from it, is Colonel was suddenly sent away, in charge this, to me, singular distinction, I learned that perhaps true; but I by no means think that, of a gendarme, to Kief, with orders never to it is a custom in Russia for brides never to even previously to its actual commencement, it return nearer to Odessa than the distance be- wear any but white or coloured dresses for one was popular with the majority of the influential tween those towns. The occurrence excited a year after their marriage, whatever mournings nobility of the country, or subsequently with the great deal of talk at the time, from various may happen within that period. higher classes of military officers; more particircumstances. The colonel was guilty of no "While sitting one day with the Prince and cularly, as I happen to know that much dispolitical offence; but a report existed that he Princess Galitzin, at their house in Odessa, the satisfaction was produced in many quarters had formerly been criminally intimate with a former shewed me a Turkish ducat, which his from circumstances which took place during married lady of high rank, resident in Odessa, lady had just received as a present from some the early part of its progress. Previously to and that this connexion had been followed by female acquaintance, in observance of a custom our leaving St. Petersburg, it was well known the birth of two children, which, it was also prevalent in Russia. The princess had been in the court circle that the emperor would be said, he had threatened to claim; whereon the recently confined; and it appears it is usual present at the future seat of operations, whenfriends of the lady employed their influence among the Russians for the friends of a lady ever the war might break out; and I was conwith the emperor to procure his banishment thus circumstanced, each to present her, when fidently assured that Count Vorontzof was to from the town; and, in consequence, this was have the command in chief of the army, and at once effected in the manner before menthat any difficulty which might arise from his tioned. No one can for a moment defend the being junior to other generals would be easily colonel's conduct, though the lady being of obviated by the omnipotence of the emperor. much higher rank and older than himself, it "While I was sitting at breakfast this Scarcely, however, had we reached Odessa, bemay be imagined that he was not the most morning, a servant of the count entered, and, fore it became evident that these anticipations culpable of the two: but what a monstrous after uttering a few words in the Russian were not to be realised, and that others had system is this! No sooner has a man become language, threw a handful of millet and oats more influence with the source of power. That obnoxious, from any cause, to those in power, into my face. I was, of course, surprised at dissatisfaction prevailed among the officers of than secret representations are made in the this conduct; but guessing it to proceed from all ranks, after their imperial master joined highest quarter; and, without trial, without, some custom prevailing here, I took it in good the army, will scarcely be doubted, perhaps, perhaps, the accused knowing what he is part. He then said that the Countess Voront-when I mention that one of them, who had charged with, or having the means of defending zof wished to see me immediately. I left my just returned from Varna, informed me that himself, he may be suddenly seized by a gen- rooms accordingly, and went into the count's the emperor's conduct on many occasions was darme, placed in a telega, and, at a moment's cabinet, where I found himself, the countess, most hasty and impetuous, and that he was notice, hurried off to Kief, or perhaps to Si- their children, and one or two of the employés, continually interfering with the arrangements beria! Who but must shudder at such reck- at breakfast. His excellency, rising upon my of the commander-in-chief: while, he added, less tyranny? The following occurrence is, in entrance, shook hands, and wished me a happy it is well known that his majesty never had some respects, of a similar character:-One new year; after which he threw a handful of any opportunities himself of gaining practical night, early in the last year (1829), an officer millet and oats at me. I had hardly got rid experience in war; and therefore what could of lancers, while waltzing with a young lady at of these, before the children and the other have induced him to imagine his own opinion one of the governor-general's balls, happened to individuals present renewed the attack in a more correct than that of an old general, who fall with her, or at any rate the circumstance similar manner. Count Vorontzof informed had previously been twice before the walls of that appeared accidental. The next morning, or me, in the course of conversation subsequently, very fortress, is most unaccountable.' Another very soon afterwards, he was hurried off, as I that this is a custom prevailing only in the officer observed, the emperor is so accustomed was informed, in custody of a gendarme, not- Ukraine and the south of Russia, which are to issue an ukase in St. Petersburg, and to withstanding that he owed at the 'Hotel du corn countries. Throughout the whole day have it obeyed as a matter of course, that he Nord' a considerable sum. Where he was sent millet and oats were kept in constant readi- expects impossibilities to be performed in war, to, I never had an opportunity of learning. The ness, and every one who entered the house, of if he only order them to be attempted.' Thus third instance of despotism I shall mention is whatever rank or sex, was assailed as I had a great loss was uselessly sustained at Varna that of a father towards his son, and which been. upon one occasion, in consequence of this decould have taken place in no other country. "The following anecdote will strikingly termination to command, when he even insisted The present Count now resident at exemplify the general character of the Russian upon the general-in-chief reprimanding the Odessa, was imprisoned in a monastery for a slaves. Baron Franck, colonel in the Guards, troops, although that officer was of opinion that period of twenty years, by order of his own had given particular directions to his servant they had done all that men could perform. It father; the reason of which was as follows: always to fold up the newspaper, which he was also mentioned that, at Varna, Count the old count, during the life-time of his wife, was accustomed to receive regularly, with the Vorontzof had ordered all officers when on kept a mistress, which rendered the countess title outwards; but the latter, regardless of duty only to wear foraging caps, instead of exceedingly unhappy; and the son, having his master's injunctions, continued to employ cocked hats and feathers, the latter having strongly advocated his mother's cause, and ex- his own method. At last the baron became rendered them remarkable objects for the Turkpressed his opinions pretty freely with respect angry, and calling for him, Why,' said he, ish riflemen, and thus occasioned considerable to the misconduct of his other parent, was, by do you always fold up the paper in this way? loss of life: but as soon as the emperor arthe latter's order, secretly conveyed to a monas- have I not frequently told you to do it other-rived, he commanded the officers to appear in tery, where he remained imprisoned until his wise?' 'Please, sir,' answered the servant, full uniform, and the cocked hats and feathers to father's death restored him to liberty. The with the greatest humility, you never beat be resumed! From these and other facts, we horrors of so sudden and protracted a confine-me for it! It is to be observed, that the may fairly conclude, that the emperor was not ment have considerably affected the present baron is not a Russian, but a native of Ger- more popular with the army after his first count's mind: he seldom goes into society; and many, which may account for his considering campaign than before; and of this he most his dread of again experiencing similar treat- the excuse offered by his servant as sufficiently probably became himself aware; for on the ment is such, that he has caused subterraneous curious to deserve relating. Perhaps, also, it passages to be constructed in his garden, communicating, by secret doors, with his house, into which, when he perceives persons approaching the latter, he often retires until they have taken their departure." - We believe that there is no country in Europe of which similar stories might not be told, and similar conclusions drawn; therefore we turn to the more agreeable task of extracting a few examples of customs, &c. may shew why a remedy for short memories, How far the following is to be trusted, from :: "It appears to be a generally received opinion in England, that the late Turkish war was return from Varna, I heard that it was confidently expected his majesty would not again take the field; and the result has fully proved this opinion to have been correct. It is not a little remarkable, that the first campaign, conducted by Russian generals, under the emperor in person, was dilatory, and in many points a complete failure; while the second, confided to the unaided talents of a German, proved as rapid as it was eminently successful, and untarnished, or at any rate not so obviously tar nished, by the employment of gold in aid of the sword. I shall never forget the bitter irony with which an officer of rank, just returned from the army, spoke to me respecting the taking of Varna. "The emperor,' said he, was surrounded by a set of military sycophants, whose inordinate flattery was so palpable as to become ridiculous: thus it was always said by those courtiers, 'Your majesty has taken Varna,' when your majesty took Varna,' &c. as if,' continued he, 'it had been the emperor who reduced that place, and not Count Vorontzof. Had we waited for the former to take Varna, it would have been in possession of the Turks at the present moment !'" Upon the whole, it seems to us that Dr. Morton's disappointments (see page 107) have made him treat Russia quite as much couleur noire as Dr. Granville couleur de rose. His statistical account of Odessa is good; and the work will have many readers, from the deep interest attached to all the movements of the great empire to which it refers. The Juvenile Library, No. I.; containing the I had not, never had, a hope; But who 'gainst passion's tide can cope? O Avondu! I wish I were As once upon that mountain bare, cumstance is this: the unfortunate patient is tormented during part of the disorder by the viscid saliva which chokes him, and gives occasion to the spasms. The dog is constantly endeavouring to get rid of it with his paws; and the human patient will start in an instant from apparent sleep, and spit it around him, or cram the clothes into his mouth to wipe it away. For the same reason, notwithstanding the awful preparation which is necessary, and the violent and convulsive spasms which attend deglutition, yet the patient will voluntarily submit to this for the sake of the temporary relief which follows the attempt to wash bis mouth, or swallow some fluid. He will muster all his resolution, and hold the cup in his extended arm for several minutes, half choked with spasm, and at last, with a sudden effort, will dash it to his mouth with such violence, as almost to break the vessel or his teeth, and fill his mouth with the liquid, while his whole Criticism on a posthumous publication like frame is in the utmost excitement: he will the present would be misplaced. The author then sink exhausted, but calm, upon his pillow, died at Lisbon, we believe, about the time of appearing as if under the influence of a powerthe appearance of this volume, and is now be-ful narcotic, while, in reality, the repose he yond the reach of our praise or censure. Narrative of a Residence in Algiers; Biogra- we THIS publication has reached us too late this is The Recluse of Inchidony, and other Poems. "Swift Awniduff, which of the Englishman "On Cleada's hill the moon is bright, It may not be the firmest heart ARTS AND SCIENCES. enjoys can be procured by any cooling fluid. Taking these circumstances into the account, rienced by a boy to whom the guaco was given Mr. Hawkins thought that the relief expewas much less than he had seen in another than he expected from its effects upon a rabid instance obtained from prussic acid, and less dog, to which the same medicine had before been administered. The result of the experiment upon the dog was, that it was a powerful palliative, completely removing for a time (nearly 36 hours) many of the symptoms. Mr. Hawkins said alisma plantago, or water plantain, the know that there are several other medicines, the ledge of which the Russian government bought at a high price; the scutellaria, or scull-cap; and especially the belladonna, all of which COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.-(Hydrophobia.) will mitigate the disease; but, from neither of JUNE 14th. Dr. Roberts in the chair.-Dr. them had such decided and long-continued an Francis Hawkins, the registrar, read a paper amendment been observed as from the guaco. relative to the prevention and cure of hydro- It failed then as a cure; but its effects as a phobia, and the bites of serpents, communicated palliative were such, that Mr. Hawkins exby Mr. Cæsar Hawkins, Surgeon to St. George's pressed a great desire to obtain some more of Hospital. He had tried, by desire of the pre- the medicine, so as to try its efficacy at an sident of the College, the effects of the mika-earlier period of the disease, i. e. before those nia guaco, which had been brought into notice peculiar spasms occur which give rise to hyat a former meeting by Sir Robert Ker Porter; drophobia in man (for it is only in man that and had also made trial of the veratrum seba- this symptom exists); and he further sugdilla, a South American species of hellebore, gested that the only probable way to obtain a spoken of as a specific for hydrophobia, by cure would be by a minute attention for the Lieut. Hardy, in his recently published travels. future to those precursory symptoms which It appeared from these experiments, that, like take place for three or four days before the every other remedy which had been found to spasms in the throat commence, of which little mitigate the symptoms of hydrophobia, either more is known at present than that there is in man or dogs, the guaco acted on the disease some pain usually in the bitten part, and some as a sedative, being sufficiently powerful to kill undefined general indisposition. If the changes small healthy animals, such as rabbits or birds. in the constitution which attend the action of The following remarks, however, struck us as the long latent poison were better understood, curious, and deserving of the notice of medical and more accurately compared with those which men, as well as of our unprofessional readers. take place in other animals, some clue might In estimating the effects of medicine in hydro- at last, he thought, be obtained towards the phobia, two circumstances are not usually taken cure of the complaint. into account. The first is, that during part of With regard to the other South American the last twelve or eighteen hours, there is often a remedy for hydrophobia, the veratrum sebadilla, remission of the spasms for a considerable time, Mr. Hawkins did not find that it justified the independent of any medicinal effect, previous lavish encomiums which had been bestowed to that nausea and vomiting which generally upon it; for it produced very little effect upon precede death: this was the case in the in- the disease; less than belladonna, and far less stance in which the guaco was tried; for at than the decided influence of the guaco. the time when the boy (labouring under the We are tempted, as so much alarm has of disease) was most violent, and the guaco had least effect, he ate and drank voraciously, notwithstanding the constant nausea from which he was beginning to suffer. The other cir late been created with regard to hydrophobia, to state at some length what Mr. Hawkins advanced, as to the prevention of hydrophobia. After some medical discussion upon this ques tion, which we omit, he proceeded to say, that alarming malady. And still more, perhaps, if Brasennose College; Rev. H. Trimmer, Rev. J. Byron, Exeter College. very numerous experiments must be made the law were enforced with greater severity Bachelors of Arts.-J. A. Harrison, St. Mary Hall; W. before the surgeon can be justified in not against those who keep these animals only for Watts, T. Twiss, Scholars, University College; J. U. having recourse to excision and the caustic, as illegal or brutal purposes; for it is asserted by Gaskell, Magdalen Hall; 1. S. Godmond, E. Cooke, Queen's College; J. N. Harrison, Scholar, Worcester the only means which analogy would point out Mr. Youatt, that in nineteen cases out of College; J. B. Dyne, Scholar, H. Bostock, Wadham as likely to be effectual, and which experience twenty the disease is propagated by the fight-College; H. Fowler, W. R. Brown, T. Halton, Brasenalso justifies to an extent which ought to di-ing dog in town, and by the cur and lurcher in nose College; J. Guillemard, Fellow, St. John's College; J. Hayward, Exeter College; S. V. Edwards, Trinity minish materially the periodical alarm which is College. felt throughout the country with regard to hydrophobia. One half at least of those who are bitten by dogs receive no inoculation of the poison, and of the number of those who are injured by decidedly rabid animals, few indeed become affected, if the means alluded to have been adopted within a reasonable period after the wound has been inflicted. Mr. Youatt has kept a record of four hundred persons who have had recourse to his assistance, after having been bitten by really rabid animals; and although one died of fright, not one had hydrophobia; a number which, if confirmed by other documents, leaves little ground for apprehension to those who have had early recourse to surgical assistance. It is probable, however, that much more might be done towards preventing the occurrence of the disease in dogs, from which animal it is most frequently communicated to man, if the public were better acquainted with the early symptoms of the disease. To shew how vague and erroneous are the notions usually entertained of the nature of rabies in dogs, we need only instance two examples. Every newspaper speaks of the application of a supposed test in a suspected dog; and if the animal attempts to lap water, he is allowed to go at large without apprehension; while in fact the only comfort of the rabid dog is to have plenty of water, in which he may attempt, ineffectually indeed, to assuage his thirst. And again, every poor hunted animal which tries to defend itself against its murderous pursuers, is set down as raging mad; while the placid quiet spaniel, or house-dog, is allowed to lick its master's fingers, or snarl and bite at its companions, without a consciousness of the hidden danger, because, forsooth, it does not rush furiously at every thing within its reach. the country. The second part of Mr. Hawkins's paper related to the power of preventing or curing the bites of poisonous serpents by means of the guaco. His experiments demonstrated the error of the accounts, that it would act as a preventive; but he had not been able to satisfy himself whether the guaco would cure the effects of the poison. He expressed a belief, however, that this part also of the account which had been given was exaggerated, and thought the bites of these reptiles ought to be treated by the use of the cupping-glass or ligature, to prevent the absorption of the poison, till incisions are made to evacuate some of that poison with the infected blood, and caustic applied to neutralise what remains. On the same principle, said Mr. Hawkins, though in a ruder manner, the hunters of Montpelier, when their dogs are bitten by the vipers of that country, are accustomed to make incisions into the wound, and fill them with gunpowder, which they afterwards explode. LITERARY AND LEARNED. Advertisement.-University Intelligence for the Quarter. OXFORD, March 25th. The following degrees were con- Bachelor of Arts.-J. Pearson, Magdalen Hall. April 22d.-The following degrees were conferred:- May 28th.-The following degrees were conferred:Doctor in Civil Law.-Sir W. Heathcote, Bart., late Fellow of All Souls', Grand Compounder. Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. H. A. Woodgate, Fellow, St. John's College. Masters of Arts. Rev. J. J. Rowe, Magdalen Hall; Rev. F. T. Gregory, University College; Rev. C. Griffith, Christ Church; Rev. G. H. Hadfield, Pembroke College; F. Pym, Worcester College; W. Hetherington, Trinity College. Bachelors of Arts.-J. F. Stansbury, J. H. Kendall, Magdalen Hall; A. Grueber, W. Alford, St. Edmund T. Maurice, Merton College; P. Williams, H. O. Pigot, Hall; R. Malcolm, T. W. Robson, University College; Christ Church; M. Davies, Jesus College; J. S. Ogle, Fellow, New College; J. D. Shafto, Brasennose College; J. J. Digweed, P. Kitchingman, Pembroke College; A. Denny, F. C. Parsons, Worcester College; D. Jackson, T. Pearson, J. Nicholson, Queen's College; J. Nash, Trinity College; J. Pyemont, W. W. Butler, D. E. Jones, G. Malim, Lincoln College; T. H. Maitland, W. H. Karslake, T. G. F. Howes, Oriel College; T. Pateson, Exeter College. June 3d.-The following degrees were conferred :Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. P. Aubin, Fellow, Jesus College. C. Hesketh, Trinity College, Grand Compounders; J. S. Birley, Rev. F. Maude, Brasennose College; Rev. J. Sutcliffe, St. Edmund Hall; M. Mitchell, Magdalen Hall; W. Griffith, Scholar, Rev. F. Marendaz, Jesus College; Rev. W. N. Fall, University College; Rev. G. B. Hamilton, Corpus Christi College; E. W. Head, Fellow, Rev. W. H. Edmeades, Rev. T. B. Lancaster, Merton College; N. C. Strickland, Lincoln College; Rev. J. Maude, Michel Scholar, Queen's College; Rev. C. S. F. Fanshawe, Demy, Magdalen College; H. D. Harington, Fellow, Exeter College. Masters of Arts.-W. Grant, Brasennose College, Rev. Bachelors of Arts.-N. Kendall, Trinity College, W. W. Andrew, St. Mary Hall, Grand Compounders; E. M'All, St. Edmund Hall; T. W. Webb, R. Tomes, Magdalen Hall; W. Roche, Trinity College; D. Jones, T. Summers, Jesus College; J. Rogers, Balliol College; W. B. Smythe, Corpus Christi College; G. W. Murray, Merton College; E. Hotham, New College; J. Abernethy, O. Brock, Brasennose College; J. Stevens, St. John's Col lege; E. Massie, O. J. Tancock, Wadham College; E. Hawkins, Scholar, R. P. Mallet, G. M. Dowdeswell, C. Le Hardy, S. Nicholls, Pembroke College; F. H. Romney, G. W. Kershaw, J. Palmer, J. Steward, W. N. Skillicorn, S. H. Feild, Worcester College; R. W. Goodenough, Student, G. Palmer, E. Conroy, O. B. Cole, lege; J. Marriott, H. Stevens, Oriel College; F. Sturmer, J. R. Drake, Christ Church; C. Cheyne, Lincoln ColE. D. Denton, M. Dand, Queen's College. On the same day the prizes were decided as follow:Latin Essay. Utrum apud Græcos an apud Romanos magis exculta fuerit civilis scientia?"-A. Grant, Student in Civil Law, and Fellow of New College. English Essay." The character of Socrates, as described by his disciples Xenophon and Plato, under the different points of view in which it is contemplated by each of them"-H. Merivale, B.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, now Fellow of Balliol College. Latin Verse." Tyrus"-W. Palmer, Demy of Magdalen College. English Verse (Newdigate).-"The African Desert"G. K. Rickards, Scholar of Trinity College. Mr. Hawkins observed, that what is called the dumb madness is equally dangerous with those cases in which the dog is furiously disposed; and expressed his opinion, that there was probably a corresponding difference in the disease in man; and that in both it arose in great measure from the previous habits and disposition: so that he had seen a quiet boy lie for hours in the last stage of the disease, April 29th.-The following degrees were conferred :-smiling, and apparently engaged in a pleasing lain, University College; Rev. T. Hutchins, Chaplain, Masters of Arts. - Rev. J. H. Parlby, E. H. Chamberkind of delirium, while another was furious C. Saxton, Christ Church; J. R. F. Billingsley, Lincoln and unmanageable, and actually drove the at-College; Rev. R. Hawkins, Scholar of Pembroke College; tendants in terror from the room, till he dropt Rev. J. D. O. Crosse, Exeter Gollege. Bachelors of Arts.-C. Deedes, A. Johnson, Merton Col-Fellow of All Souls' College, Grand Compounder. on the floor, insensible and exhausted by his lege: Sir W. M. Farquhar, Bart. Hon. C. J. Murray, own efforts. The one was well educated and Christ Church; T. Blackburne, Brasennose College. amiable; the other afforded a striking moral lesson as the very bite which caused the horrid death he suffered appeared to have been occasioned by his cruel and depraved habits. May 6th.-The following degrees were conferred :- May 13th.-The following degrees were conferred :- Cox, Christ Church. June 10th.-The following degrees were conferred :- Ward, Queen's College; D. Badham, Pembroke College. Masters of Arts.-Lord Clonbrock, Christ Church, Grand Compounder; Rev. O. S. Harrison, Queen's College; Rev. W. Wheeler, Demy, Magdalen College; Rev. J. O. Parr, Brasennose College; Rev. W. J. Bussell, Pembroke College; Rev. H. V. Shortland, Lincoln College; G. A. Denison, Fellow, Oriel College; Rev. J. Aldridge, Exeter College; Rev. J. S. Halifax, Rev. E. G. Ruddock, Trinity College; Rev. C. Bannatyne, Balliol College. Bachelors of Arts.-The Earl of Selkirk, Grand Compounder, A. A. Holden, J. Mitchell, Christ Church; E. David, Jesus College; S. S. Warmoth, Queen's College; J. W. S. Donnison, J. J. A. Brown, H. J. Hoskins, H. Hodges, University College; W. E. Trenchard, PemBachelors of Arts.-C. Benson, Queen's College; G. T. broke College; T. C. Curties, Fellow, R. Hollings, St. Comyns, W. J. Blew, Wadham College; J. Fox, Wor- John's College; E. T. Massy, Brasennose College: M. H. cester College: T. Staniforth, Christ Church; R. Ent-Chaytor, R. H. Cooper, F. J. Burlton, Worcester Colwisle, A. F. Daubeny, Brasennose College; A. Cox, Scholar, Lincoln College; W. Davy, A. Daniel, Exeter College. Mr. Hawkins believes that there can be little doubt that rabies at present never originates spontaneously, even in dogs, but arises only from inoculation with saliva. He suggested, therefore, that if every dog which had been bitten by another, were carefully secluded for four months, (which exceeds the common period at which the disease commences after the injury), and if every dog which shews the least symptom of any indisposition, were pre-Grand Compounder. vented from communicating the disease, should it prove to be labouring under rabies, much might be done towards the diminution of this May 19th. The following degrees were conferred:- Christ Church, and Archdeacon of Oxford. Masters of Arts.-Rev. J. Medley, Grand Compounder, lege; B. F. J. Willesford, Exeter College; H. James, Balliol College; G. Vigne, W. Smith, Trinity College; H. C. Wise, Oriel College. June 17.-The following degrees were conferred:Bachelor in Civil Law. Rev. W. Howard, Fellow of New College. Masters of Arts.-U. T. Price, Grand Compounder, Rev. W. Whalley, Rev. W. Pye, Student, Christ Church; M. C. Tompson, Grand Compounder, Rev. E. J. Ward, Trinity College; Rev. J. Lampen, Grand Compounder, Rev. E. A. Ommanney, Exeter College; Rev. A. Bromiley, Bachelors of Arts.-G. Bingley, G. Broadhead, F. H. Gordon, W. E. Lumb, W. Ramsay, S. Starky, Trinity Bachelors of Arts.-H. D. S. S. Horlock, Grand Com-College; W. L. Mills, Queen's College; H. Armstrong pounder, W. M. K. Bradford, Magdalen Hall; W. W. H. Apthorp, Christ College; C. A. Stewart, Trinity A. Hodgson, Grand Compounder, J. Barrow, Scholar, Hall. The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's prizes, for the ensuing year, viz.- For Latin Verse.-Numantia. For an English Essay.-On the use and abuse of theory. For a Latin Essay. - Quænam fuerit oratorum Atticorum apud populum auctoritas. Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, for the best Composition in English Verse, not limited to Fifty Lines.-The Suttees. CAMBRIDGE, March 26th. The following degrees were conferred : Masters of Arts.-T. Stevens, St. John's College; Rev. R. Twigg, St. Peter's College; T. R. Ashworth, Jesus College; Rev. C. Morgell, Trinity College (incorporated from Dublin). Bachelors in Civil Law.-C. A. Nott, Trinity College; College. April 28th.-The following degrees were conferred:- The following are the respective subjects:- cultus?-Sen. renascentis statum optimè accommodata? from Shakspeare into Greek verse) adjudged to C. R. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. C. J. Fox, St. John's College; D. L. Thorp, Caius Col-indebted for these inscriptions to the labours of lege; J. Pendlebury, Queen's College; W. Whitworth, Jesus College, Compounder. our countryman Dr. Richard Pococke, whose Travels in Egypt and various other countries were published in 1743, who not only copied fifty-six of the whole number of 73 of which they consist, but has given them within outQueen's College; P. D. La Touche, Grand Compounder, June 12.-Members' Prizes: The Bachelors' prizes were C. C. College; E. Odell, Grand Compounder, J. L. Ir-awarded; the first to E. H. Fitzherbert, and the second lines of the two legs on which they are inwin, H. Gray, C. Wordsworth, Student, Christ Church; to T. J. Phillips, both of Trinity College. The exa- scribed,-a caution which M. Letronne has H. P. Best, University College; J. Cooke, Balliol Col- miners consider these essays as possessing sufficient merit found to be of great advantage in enabling him lege; T. Whitaker, B. Hayley, A. M. Bennett, Worcester to entitle the authors to the prize of thirty guineas each; to fix the date of some, to connect or disconnect College; F. Wrench, Trinity College; T. Houblon, Oriel and they will be printed. The usual prize of fifteen College. Theological Prize, instituted June 2, 1825. The evi- Trinity College; but the essay is not to be printed. No ner in which some words were originally inguineas awarded to A. W. Chatfield, Undergraduate of others, and to account for the imperfect mandence deduced from prophecy in support of the truth of second prize adjudged. Christianity"-subject for an English essay. scribed. Worden, the Danish traveller, who was in Upper Egypt at the same time as Pococke was, has also given a few, but in a very imperfect state, and has been of little or no aid to M. Letronne. The learned men who accomadded scantily to the labours of predecessors. panied the French expedition into Egypt in 1801 Something further has since been published by other English travellers. But the great harvest has been gained, and numberless errors corrected and lacunæ supplied, by Mr. Salt, late his THE following abstract of a memoir, entitled majesty's consul-general in Egypt, and whose colossal statue of Memnon, restored and ex- to this Society. M. Letronne has found little "the Greek and Latin Inscriptions upon the copies of these inscriptions have been presented plained;" by M. Letronne, Member of the or no assistance in the various memoirs which Institute of France, and Hon. M.R.S.L., was several of the philologists of the continent have read at the last meeting of this Society. M. already written upon these inscriptions: amongst Letronne's communication is in French, and them he enumerates Leich, Bouchier, Hagenextends to 150 pages; it will form an import-buch, D'Orville, Jablonsky, and Jacobs, the ant feature in the publication of the Society's last of whom has published four of them, in Transactions; and, in the meantime, we con- verse, in his last edition of the Anthologia gratulate ourselves on being able to present Græca. What Jablonsky has written on this our readers with this accurate and interesting subject is to be found in his Syntagmata de epitome. Memnone. M. Letronne's memoir, now be M. Letronne precedes his historical and phi-fore the Society, is confined to a critical explalological disquisitions on these inscriptions by nation and restoration of the inscriptions alone. a preliminary notice on the history, size, and This gentleman has already published his views probable destination or purport of the statue in on the history and peculiar phenomena of the question. The vocal statue of Memnon is one statue, as a vocal monument, in a memoir ad of two colossal figures in the plain of Thebes, hoc, in which his hypothesis on the subject is and on that part of the ancient city which was principally founded on the tenor of the inscripon the left or western bank of the Nile. They tions, where they bear upon it. For a more are more than sixty feet in height, at nearly clear understanding of these ancient documents, the same distance from each other. Although M. Letronne has classed them first into two now unconnected with any of the various mag-parts: 1. those that have a date; 2. those that nificent temples which still testify to the power have no date. Those with a date are arranged and wealth of the ancient sovereigns of Upper chronologically, without regard to the language Egypt, within the precincts of the capital of in which they are inscribed. Those without that country, they were formerly the principal a date are divided into two sections-the Greek ornaments of one of its temples or palaces, and the Latin. Complete references are given built, it is supposed, by Amenophis II. or III., in the memoir to the numbers in each precedand called, after him, Amenophium. This ing arrangement. The particular inscriptions building was still in existence in the time of are also marked with the initials of those who Pliny; and there is good reason to believe that have severally published them.† one of the statues now remaining, probably that which bears the inscription, is that of the duction, proceeds to an examination of each M. Letronne, after this preliminary introfounder. The two statues were originally of a inscription. The first inscription which he single block of breccia each: the more southern cites is in Latin, and testifies that Aulus Inone is still entire; the other, the inscribed one, stuleius Tenax, principilaris of the twelfth bears evident marks of having been broken by legion, which was entitled Fulminatrix; and violence from the waist-the upper part has Caius Valerius Priscus, centurion of the twentotally disappeared, but it has been restored-ty-second legion; and Lucius Quintus, a deat what period it is impossible to say-by thirteen vir, a traveller, heard the Memnon, in the blocks of gneiss superimposed one upon the other, eleventh year of the Emperor Nero, on the or laterally attached, so as to form five layers 17th day of the calends of April: the hour, too, Greek Epigram.-Egrescit medendo. Latin Epigram.-Spatiis inclusus iniquis. Strabo and Pausanias saw the colos- was mentioned; but the figures are obliterated. June 11th.-The following degrees were conferred:- sus in its mutilated state, the upper part lying The date corresponds to the 15th of March, of Doctor in Divinity.-Rev. R. N. Adains, Fellow, Sidney on the ground. These and other evidences the sixty-fourth year of our era. Bachelors in Divinity.-Rev. P. Debary, Senior, Trinity prove that the restoration, whenever it took College, Compounder; Rev. A. M. Wale, Compounder, place, must have been later than the reign of Rev. W. Maddy, Fellows, St. John's College: Rev. J. Adrian. The fact, too, of the statue being in Dewe, Fellow, Queen's College; Rev. W. F. Wilkinson, Fellow, Corpus Christi College; Rev. W. Hobson, Catha- this condition during the reign of this emperor is rine Hall, Compounder; Rev. T. Mortimer, Rev. D. proved by several of the inscriptions hereinafter Evans, Queen's College. Master of Arts. Rev. E. Lindsell, Jesus College, Com-given, as it is alluded to by them; and many Bachelor in Civil Law.-Rev. F. Baring, Christ College. Bachelors of Arts.-J. W. Sanders, J. M. Carrow, J. K. Eagles, E. N. Cooper, Trinity College; F. C. Cook, G. Booth, St. John's College; T. Bates, W. Darby, St. Peter's College; W. K. Izon, Pembroke College; D. Hill, Clare Hall; T. H. Say, Caius College; C. Sandys, A. W. Brown, T. Leah, C. Waller, J. K. Marsh, K. Evans, J. Wright, Queen's College; R. Bealby, B. F. Tuckniss, W. Tomkins, Catherine Hall; F. T. Blackburn, W. Nunn, F. Barker, G. H. West, Jesus College: B. Wilmer, Christ College; J. L. M'Lachlan, Sidney College. May 12.-The following degrees were conferred:Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. D. Jones, Queen's College. Masters of Arts.-S. Best, King's College; Rev. T. Dury, Pembroke College; S. Dawes, Caius College. Bachelors of Arts.-L. W. Sampson, Fellow, King's College; C. Powell, Trinity College; R. M. Atkinson, St. John's College; W. Biscoe, J. Sanders, Queen's College; A. M. Parkinson, Jesus College. May 26th.-The following degrees were conferred :Masters of Arts.-T. Turner, V. F. Hovenden, Fellows, Trinity College; J. Hills, St. John's College; J. Bishop, Compounder, Trinity Hall; G. King, Corpus Christi College. Licentiate in Physic.-J. Johnstone, Trinity College. Bachelor in Civil Law.-H. Bond, Christ College. Bachelors of Arts.-F. Turnly, Trinity College; W. J. Coney, Compounder, Clare Hall; G. K. Jarvis, Pembroke College; T. Walker, Trinity Hall; G. A. Whit aker, Emmanuel College. May 31st.-The Chancellor's gold medal to a resident Undergraduate, for the English poem, was on Monday adjudged to William Chapman Kinglake, of Trinity College. Subject, Byzantium. June 10th.-Sir William Browne's three gold medals for the present year were awarded as follow: Greek Ode.-J. Hildyard, Christ College. Latin Ode.-C. R. Kennedy, Trinity College. Epigrams.-W. Fitzherbert, Queen's College. The following are the respective subjects:-Greek Ode.-llyssi laus. Latin Ode.Cuma Sussex College. pounder. Bachelors in Civil Law.-J. D. Sprigge, St. Peter's College, Compounder; A. F. Bayford, Trinity Hall. Bachelors in Physic.-J. Jackson, Senior, Catherine Hall (by royal mandate, on his departure for India); of stone. concur with the opinion of historians, that the No. 2, also in Latin, states the same feat of Titus Julius Lupus, prefect of Egypt; and the hour was the first hour. This person is mentioned by Josephus and Pliny the elder; he succeeded Tiberius Alexander in this office, preceded the visit of Adrian; the second, those which The first section of this part contains those which make mention of this visit; the third, those of a date posterior to this visit. †M. Letronne has otherwise bestowed great historical and philological research upon these documents. |