these accounts were often fabulous and contra- | their subordinate agents, who resided at the
dictory is therefore not surprising. That a different seaports which were situated in the
commerce existed between these countries and neighbourhood of those provinces where the
Taprobane is quite clear, from the accounts of various articles of commerce were produced.
the sea voyagers which Pliny has delivered

From their agents at Trincomalee they re-
ceived rice and indigo; from those at Jaffna,
We now come to the Persian period, about the chaya-root, or red dye, the wood of the
500 years before Christ: it would scarcely be black palmyra-tree, and the sea shells called
of any utility to prove that those accounts, chanks; from those at Coodramallé, pearls:
which we have from Nearchus and Onesicritus, from those at Putlam, areca nut for chewing
are well authenticated, and not to be doubted; with betel leaves, ebony, satin, and calamander
and also, that even before the Persian mo- wood for furniture, and sappan wood for dyeing;
narchy there existed a more animated trade from those at Colombo, cinnamon and precious
between Babylon and India, as the author has stones; from those at Barbareen, cocoa-nut oil
already shewn in his critical examination of and coire; and from those at Point de Galle,
the Babylonian history. But as the name of ivory and elephants.
Taprobane had not reached the west, the author
did not wish to return to the time of Salomo,
and his expedition to Ophir, to avoid the
slightest shade of doubt being cast over his
statement. The professor, therefore, reverted
to the point at which he had begun this dis-
course, namely, the age of Cosmas; and from
thence he passed over to the history of the com-
merce of Ceylon in the middle ages.

never reached it, having got only to the coast of
Malabar. Yet of Ceylon he has related several
interesting facts. He says, the island was
called Palasimundus, after the name of the
town, which, acccording to Pliny, contained
200,000 inhabitants-probably near to Trinco- to us.
malee, though some imagine it to be Jafnapa-
tam. Large ships were then able to pass
through the straits. The northern part of the
island he reports to be well cultivated; and
besides the products before mentioned, he states
woollen cloth to be a principal commodity of
export. Half a century later we have Pliny
and Strabo as witnesses. The account given
by Strabo of Taprobane, as well as of India, is
very meagre. He mentions the trade as con-
sisting of ivory, tortoise-shell, and other Indian
commodities: that given by Pliny is taken
from the travels of a diplomatic mission,
sent, in the time of the Emperor Claudius,
to Rome from Taprobane, at whose head was
a rashia, or rajah. According to their account,
the island contained 500 towns. The capital,
as well as principal harbour, was Palasimun-
dus. They were rich in precious wares, even
more so than Rome. They traded as far as The first Mahomedans who settled on Ceylon
Serica, to which place the father of the rajah were, according to the tradition which prevails
had travelled. The king, who sent the mis- amongst their descendants, a portion of those
sion, did not rule over the interior; he inha-Arabs of the house of Hashim who were
bited a town on the sea coast. Ceylon appears
to have been much in the same state then as
it was later at the period of Ptolemy and
Cosmas.

By means of armed vessels, which they maintained at their own expense, near the island of Manar, they commanded the only two passages by which vessels of any size could pass, as we have already described; and the wealth which they circulated through the country, enabled the inhabitants of the adjoining provinces to keep their tanks, or reservoirs for water, in perpetual repair, and their rice fields in a constant state of cultivation.

The Portuguese, on their first arrival on Ceylon, at the conclusion of the fifteenth century, found that the Mahomedan traders still monopolised the whole export and import trade of the island, and that they were, from their commercial and political power in the country, the most formidable rivals whom they had to encounter.

From the beginning of the sixteenth century, the trade and affluence of the Mahomedans on the island of Ceylon have been gradually, and constantly, on the wane; owing, in seme degree, to the general decline of their trade and influence in every part of India, but more particularly to the systems of policy which have been respectively adopted by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English governments of Ceylon, and to the great improvement which has been made within the last three centuries in the science of navigation.

The Mahomedan population on that ishad now consists of about seventy thousand persoas, who are distributed in every part of the country.

driven from Arabia in the early part of the eighth century by the tyranny of the Caliph Abdul Malek; and who, proceeding from the Euphrates southward, made settlements in the This refers us to the time of Alexander and Concan, in the southern parts of the peninsula the Ptolemies. The two commanders of the of India, on the island of Ceylon, and at Mafleet, Nearchus and Onesicritus, who conducted lacca. The division of them which came to Ceyit from the Indus to the Persian Gulf and the lon formed eight considerable settlements along month of the Euphrates, heard of the fame the north-east, north, and western coasts of of Taprobane. Our visiters first discovered that island; viz., one at Trincomalee, one at it to be an island, in circumference about Jaffna, one at Mantotte and Manar, one at 5000 stadia. But, what is more remarkable Coodramallé, one at Putlam, one at Colombo, is the mention of Adam's Bridge, and the pas-one at Barbareen, and one at Point de Galle. sages through the same, as being of great im- The settlement at Manar and Mantotte, portance to the maritime interests. The island on the north-west part of Ceylon, from its was separated from the continent by shoals, local situation with respect to the peninsula of through which there were passages, narrow, India, the two passages through Adam's Bridge, but very deep, sufficient to allow ships of and the chank and pearl fisheries on the coasts 3000 amphoras to pass. The division of the of Ceylon and Madura, naturally became for year favourable to the sailing of vessels was the Mahomedan what it had before been for also known at that time. Vessels only went the ancient Hindu and Persian traders of We may therefore, from what has been said, out during four months, according to the change India,-the great emporium of all the trade deduce the three following points:-1st, It has of the monsoons. All this we have received which was carried on by them with Egypt, been historically proved that Ceylon had been, from Pliny. Nearchus informs us, that on Arabia, Persia, and the coast of Malabar, on until the latter end of the fifteenth century, reaching the entrance of the Persian Gulf, as one side, and the coast of Coromandel, the the emporium of the trade carried on between soon as he saw the promontory of Maceta (Mas-eastern shores of the bay of Bengal, Malacca, Africa, India, and China. 2dly, We may inler, cate), he was told this was the emporium of Sumatra, Java, the Moluccas, and China, on from the imperfect accounts delivered to us, the cinnamon and other Indian wares, which the other side. that Ceylon had been, during 500 years befre were conveyed from thence to Babylon. We On this part of Ceylon, at an equal distance Christ, of the greatest possible importance in need no more to convince us that Taprobane from their respective countries, the silk mer- respect to trade; and that, during that perid, had already gained that importance which she chants of China, who had collected on their it had also been the staple of the Indian trade. retained in the time of the Romans. voyage aloes, cloves, nutmegs, and sandal wood, 3dly, That the trade was not carried on by the It must, however, appear curious, that Era-maintained a free and beneficial commerce inhabitants of the interior of the country, bat tosthenes and others should have believed the with the inhabitants of the Arabian and Per-by settlers on the sea coasts, who had come there reports spread about the size of Taprobane, at sian Gulfs: it was, in fact, the place at which after the Islam Mahomedan Arabs; and accordthe time of the Ptolemies. This is explained all the goods which came from the East were ing to Knox, they differ entirely from the by our knowing that at this period no direct exchanged with those which came from the Cingalese, in their appearance, language, and voyage had been made to India from Alexan- West. Although the Mahomedan traders who manners. dria, as the Indian wares were to be procured were settled on Ceylon had acquired great in the southern parts of Arabia. Strabo clearly wealth and influence very early in the eleventh and positively asserts, that no single vessels century; and although they continued to poshad then arrived in India from Egypt; and sess a most extensive and lucrative trade in its the narrative of a certain Iambulus, handed ports till the end of the fifteenth century, it down to us by Diodorus, belongs to the time of was during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the travels of Taurinius and Damberger. that they attained the highest degree of their commercial prosperity and political influence on 224 22h 38m - the Sun enters Leo, according that island." During that period, the great to the fixed signs: his true place in the heavens Mahomedan merchants of Manar and Man-is near Presepe in Cancer. totte received, into the immense warehouses Solar Spots.-June 29a — several of these, which they had established at this emporium, of considerable magnitude and singular arrange the most valuable produce of the island from ment, are visible on the solar disc; the largest

The accounts of which Eratosthenes and other geographers made use, were not received direct from Ceylon, but came by the way of Palibothra, the capital of the Prasii on the Ganges, whither the Seleucidae had sent their ambassador Megasthenes, and others; and that

The northern parts of the island are still inhabited mostly by Malabars, whose descendants live in the commercial and maritime towns.

ARTS AND SCIENCES. CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR JULY.

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MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.

pair for their e ferngt, darged, t'e à s Yard into the Ma le 'aña, and the fe it toi thườ

get'eman who has made mene crims ds.

are, that on every miat of Dr.d work p overies in Dr1⁄4ut al art putes in Somerset. • had turn under his notae in that couns ty, he found a sumar stone.

Da. Snowy in the chair-Am ng the dona. 1 plant; and commanded, that in future
tions were a vjendid couection of indigenous the two shond be offered together upon his
and exota med i Lal and other plants tower altar. He then metarm.rj), sed himses! it-to
it at this season, from Mr. 6, 4, of 0.4
the body pod alune ment ned' and to this
Bomoton, the treasurer; and a colection of
day the halograma and the Txikee are ever
mec scissal joanits from Mr. Horton, wa de-
died on ise alat of the de-tv. Tùe Nande
Ivered an
Dr. Whiting related the foam 12 case i
intrus atar y lecture on btasy. grama is a fim i, conta ning one of more am.
Good about four years old, wi, le pia ng under ten. and Mrs. Skitter was anwired liv a
Borne latrert sum trees (Eylizmin umum Lat
piked a tue of the cape sex, and having eaten
Lena Will greedilām, tomat, hexative dunst,
pale, and exkanstesi, in wh state it was
carried to its mikler, which, givaly karmed,
sout in.fast ately for a margus fi, As she began,
however, to suspect the case of tie tak.
they ietor of which, there weg, ex
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recovered from the st.;- r, atud was wil.mately
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the chair, a large qu'est ma of Fast 1-
draw
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1.1 wat red. tom piat to frutta. Mesara,
and Hlor, and a beautiful specimen of car-
tus from Mr Campbell, were received. Dr.
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LITERARY AND LEARNED.
ROYAL ASTATIC SOCIETY.

SIR ALEXANDER Jansstos, in the car.

Ile fixarm ng dimations were made, by the
chaouar, 4 mois, Ina traz siatim of Vase
tores works on Gevin and Java‚—A` ́nomika
Werand, Eng, a read | Persian MS,

ing the wish Ji at Narrah, or Mettmat TN
of mesh Jehan - this city was written ex.
presis for that monarch, and bears his wat so
sh in apartment of the ..nni sled
A Imurs war (MP. Bart, a very
Ms copy of the Koran, with a
rurning paraphrase in Pers an. A great f'ım-
her of other donat ons were likewise made to
the Marketv.

A shirt paner was read from the pen o
Mrs. Maither, intended to 12 atrate the Mu a
gratia, or mcred at me, presented in i e
Gety by that lady, It entitled, “* the ii •t
*of the Maiagram," and a to the framing ofvet
To the th of a womit, ty cầmed Hee.
vat .m; 19 a liver, BARed Gurdagve
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the birth side is a boy pi, 1 m
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from the pencil of Mr. Richard Marsden, the Mrs. Siddons, two of Miss Siddons, Miss Ce-|
public exhibition of which has since commenced cilia Siddons, Mrs. John Kemble, an anony-
at the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. We mous female portrait, two of Mr. Charles
cannot give our readers a more distinct and Kemble, and Sir Toby Belch. We confess
comprehensive notion of the subject, which is that we think two or three of these drawings
"St. Paul before Agrippa," than by quoting might very advantageously have been allowed
the words of the descriptive notice, circulated to remain in their portfolio; but, on the other
in the room:
hand, several of them, such, for instance, as
"Then Paul stretched forth the hand, the front face of Miss Siddons, and the elder
and answered for himself.' This is the imme-profile of Charles Kemble, are eminently
diate point of time expressed in the picture. beautiful.
In an open hall of audience, among the splen-
did buildings of Cæsarea, on the hilly coast of Illuminated Ornaments, selected from Missals
Syria, below the citadel or town of Straton, and Manuscripts of the Middle Ages. By
this memorable defence of the Christian reli- Henry Shaw. Part I. Pickering.
gion was pleaded. The Apostle stands near "THE variety and beauty of those orna-
the centre of the picture; a chain passes from ments," it is observed in the prospectus of this
his arm to that of the soldier behind him. At splendid little work, "which decorate the Illu-
his right sits a Scribe, and more distant on his minated Missals of the Middle Ages, are so
left is another, agreeably to the usage which duly appreciated by all acquainted with them,
ordained that one should attend for the ac- that it is somewhat surprising no publication
cused, the other for the accusers. Behind the has yet appeared, which, by a judicious selection
last-mentioned Scribe are two Rabbis, perusing and careful imitation of them, might make
a record of his former pleading before Felix, their excellence more generally known."
from whence to derive matter of accusation talent and taste displayed by Mr. Shaw in his
against him. Near the Scribe, on the right of" History and Antiquities of the Chapel at
the picture, on the fore-ground, sits a Pharisee, Luton Park," are a sufficient assurance of the
intent on the proceedings, and behind him ability with which his present undertaking will
another Jewish Rabbi. Near these are a group be executed. It is to be completed in twelve
of Christian converts, among whom is the parts; of which that under our immediate
Greek Aristarchus, the friend of Paul and the notice presents an admirable sample.
evangelist St. Luke, the fellow-labourer of the

Apostle. On the judgment-seat are enthroned Agrippa and Bernice. On the right of Agrippa stands Festus, the Roman proconsul. Among the captains and chief men of the city, behind the throne, are a Roman senator and Julius the centurion, who afterwards conducted St. Paul to Rome. On the fore-ground, on the left of the picture, is an Ethiopian attendant, with a censer, and the train-bearer of the queen. On the steep hill, in the back-ground, on the extreme right, is the tower of Straton, already mentioned."

The

ORIGINAL POETRY.

FIRST AND LAST.NO. VII.
First and Last Love.
I DEEM'D you loved me, for your eye
Would fondly rest on me;

I deem'd you loved me, for your sigh
Would breathe-your cheek would be
Tinged with a crimson, if I came
Across your path by chance;
And then what thoughts, without a name,
Spoke in your hurried glance!

I deem'd you loved me, for I knew
How in my heart I shrined you-
How in each gentle, tenderest clue
Of fancy I entwined you;

I deem'd you loved, because I saw
Your actions like mine own-
Your eye had my heart's timid awe,

Your voice my trembling tone.

I deem'd you loved-I ne'er had loved
Until that feeling burst--
Beautiful, glorious, tried and proved,
The passionate, the first.

I deemed you loved-I was deceived!
My dream of bliss is past:
Those only know like me bereaved,
Such First Love is the Last!
Worton Lodge, Isleworth.

DRAMA.

M. A. BROWNE.

One Hundred Studies, in Groups and Single A PARAGRAPH must include all our dramatic
Figures, of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and other news and criticism this week. At the King's
Domestic Animals. Engraved from the cele- Theatre, on Tuesday, Cenerentola was sub-
brated Masters, Paul Potter, Cuyp, Berghem,
Stoop, Karl du Jardin, &c. under the super.
intendence of George Cooke. Moon, Boys,

and Graves.

To the lovers of picturesque art, the free,
loose, and characteristic style in which these
plates, thirty in number, are executed, will be
highly gratifying. Some of those from Du
Jardin are especially beautiful.

Portrait of the Duke of Reichstadt. Engraved
by W. Bromley, A.E., after the original
drawing by the late Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A.

Tiffin.

stituted for Tancredi, and "God save the King!" was sung by nearly two first singers at the same time; for one had begun when the other rushed on the stage (after being waited for) to commence the anthem.— At the Haymarket, a successful petite comedy has been produced, entitled Separation and Reparation, said to be by Morton, and Farren its main pillar.-The English Opera season commenced on Thursday, at the Adelphi, with great éclat. Miss Kelly, inimitable in the Sister of Charity; Keeley (Mr. and Mrs.) also inimitable in their line; Wrench and others fully sustaining the well-earned reputation and attraction of the company.

VARIETIES.

With these materials, Mr. Marsden has produced a work which does him the highest honour. The composition is excellent; the expression powerful and well contrasted, the chiaroscuro forcible, without exaggeration, and the colouring rich but harmonious. We do not recollect ever to have seen a painting to MUCH as the public have lately been occupied more advantage. The hall, at one extremity in viewing and admiring the works of the of which it is placed, is lofty and spacious, and lamented President, the specimen of his matchby the judicious management of surrounding less talents under our notice is at least as of fever has been introduced into some of the draperies, and the concealment of the sources much calculated to excite attention as any of the light which falls upon the picture, the thing that we have as yet seen from his hand. West India islands with extraordinary success. effect, on entrance, is strikingly brilliant and The stamp of his father's features is so very It consists in the use of medicines applicable to imposing. evident in this portrait of the young Napoleon, the peculiar changes which the blood undergoes that no one can for a moment doubt the truth during the existence of fever, in opposition to of the resemblance; though we believe from the established theory as to the solids. It is The Works and Property of Mr. W. B. Cooke. the statement of travellers, that it is indebted stated by one of the physicians who adopt the new mode, that in 340 cases all the patients recovered.

PRINTS AND PLATES;

Fever.-A new mode of treatment in cases

THE engravings of this artist, in connexion to the painter for the advantage of being with the names of Turner, Girtin, and others taken in the position most favourable to grace of our first painters of landscape and coast and effect. It is, however, difficult to imaMarch of Piety. The Propagateur de Calais informs us, that a few days ago a carriage scenery, have been so frequently the subject of gine a face in which the lines of beauty are our highest encomiums, as to render it unneces- more in accordance with those of the finest passed from Calais to St. Omer, containing two sary for us to say any thing more respecting them antique busts. This appears with peculiar elegantly dressed females, who distributed, on than simply to call the attention of our readers distinctness in the mouth, the bland expression their route, books of piety among all whom to the sale that, it will be seen by our Ad- of which in some sort tempers the keen hawk- they met They were said to be two rich young vertisements, is to take place on Wednesday like character of the eye, which has a sternness Englishwomen of the sect of Wesleyans. next; and to observe, that it will enable the in it not often seen at the age of eleven,-that Mechanical Improvements.-We have often amateur or collector to enrich his portfolio with at which this portrait was taken. As a work some of the finest examples of engraved art that of art nothing can be imagined more beautiful, have ever yet been brought before the public.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Imitations of the Chalk Drawings of Sir Thomas Lawrence. By R. J. Lane, A. R.A. Dickinson.

TEN drawings, viz. Lady Charlotte Campbell, |

both with regard to the exquisite taste of the
design, and to the inimitable skill with which
the engraver has preserved that lightness and
delicacy of tone by which the drawings of Sir
T. Lawrence are invariably distinguished.

turned with gratification to describe “the march" of mechanical improvement in our pages, (somewhat more substantial, in our opinion, than the boasted march of intellect); but we never noticed any thing of this kind with so much satisfaction as we now do the admirable contrivances of Mr. Pratt, (the well. known and ingenious patentee of improved chairs, beds, &c. &c.), by which he was enabled

to afford ease and comfort to our lamented Sovereign during the later period of his protracted sufferings. We find it rather difficult to convey a perfect notion of these contrivances to our readers; for they should be seen to have their merits fully understood. The chairs and bed (of which last there were three) were stuffed in the springy and elastic manner which distinguishes Mr. Pratt's patent; and so modified with joints, &c. as to be susceptible of sustaining the body in every possible position. But this not being found sufficient to afford all the relief desired in the painful situation of his Majesty, means were immediately invented, by passing bands of catgut transversely through the bed or cushion; which bands could be tightened or loosened at pleasure, to raise or lower, support or leave at rest, any limb or other part, whenever the royal patient expressed a wish to that effect. Sir H. Halford was much delighted with the ingenuity and singular aptitude of this very clever device; and if any thing can add to an artisan's triumph in framing an excellent work, it must be in the recollection that its first use gave many hours of consolation to a Monarch, ever the friend of talents in every branch of art and

science.

tremity a little pebble, by way of counterpoise. in-chief, the Secretary-at-war, or the Duke of Welling-
ton, as to my character; but as I presume your journal is
The pebble being heavier than the animal, kept extensively circulated, and believe that the public in
the web perfectly extended.-A curious paper general respect those names, I beg leave to say that I have
was lately read at the Paris Academy of Sci-the honour to be known to all those personages, and have
reason to think any one of them would vouch for iny
ences on the construction of a spider's nest in being incapable of acting the part ascribed to me by Mr.
earth. This spider is a native of Corsica. The Alexander. I have requested a friend to hand you this
nest is in the form of a well, two inches deep; as to every particular respecting me and my connexions;
letter, who will put you in the way of satisfying yourself
and six lines in width. The interior is lined so that you will have the fullest opportunity of judging
with fine web, and the top is furnished with a whether you ought to give my contradiction to the pub-
kind of lid, with hinges, which shuts when the insert in your paper. In the mean time, I have the honour
lic, or persist in the libel that you have been induced to
insect is in. This lid, which is composed of to be, sir, your very obedient
earth and web, consists of upwards of forty
layers.

Bicephalous Girl.-At the sitting of the Paris
Academy of Sciences on the 21st inst., M.
Geoffroy Hilaire read a report on a bicephalous
girl, which had been still-born at Aulay, near
St. Girons. This child was very similar to
Ritta Christina, who died lately in Paris.
There were two separate hearts, having each a
pericardium.

H. C. WILSON.* To the Editor of the London Literary Gazette.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

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read the bills.

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A Chinese Student.-There is now at Brussels a Chinese merchant, on his way to France, where he intends to study French; and he is subsequently to proceed to this country for the purpose of learning English. As he is in full The Printers' Pension Society propose a two Chinese costume, he is an object of great curihundred miles aquatic excursion in the Har-osity. It is said that four other Chinese merlequin steamer on Monday week, for the benefit chants, of great wealth in China, were to follow of their charitable fund. What would old his example. Caxton say if he could rise from his grave and witness this triumph of machinery in the cause of benevolence?

Monument to Shakspeare.- Proposals are in circulation for a public meeting to consider of the expediency of erecting a national monument to Shakspeare, worthy of the genius of the poet (impossible!), the progress of the arts, and the grandeur of the empire. We heartily wish the design success.

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The Juvenile Library.-Our review of this work, to a regard to it; but we have to add, that the volume was certain degree explains the difficulty of our position with submitted for criticism to a gentleman as independent of the Literary Gazette as the Literary Gazette is itself independent. A man of firmness, talent, and integrity, he was assured that our invariable rule was to know neither friend nor adversary in these pages; and, therefore, that he should exercise, in this and every similar case, his unbiassed judgment. Thus much appears to us to be necessary to state both in justice to such publications, and to ourselves: at all events it is the plain and simple truth. Edward, are beautifully executed; and the whole-length The plates in the volume, Lady Jane Grey, and Prince of the Princess Victoria, and the portrait of Lawrence, from his own crayon, are recommendations enough for a book of twice the price, independently of its literary contents.-Ed. L. G.

We have looked over the several pamphlets respecting sity; but we refrain from taking up the subject, in the the disputes unhappily existing at the London Univerhope that good sense and moderation may prevail at the meeting, which, we see, is appointed for to-day, and the Institution be restored to that cordiality which alone can promote its successful labours in the cause of education.

One good Turn deserves another.-Reynolds, the dramatist, who, as we mentioned in our last, is about to appear in the character of a novelist, was complaining to a friend of the many difficulties he encountered in his new undertaking; the latter replied "Think, when the work is over, of the pleasure of cor- We observe by the very able address of Mr. Vigors to recting the press." "Ay!" rejoined Fred. the Zoological Club at its last meeting, that it has been dissolved, having effected all the good objects for which Reynolds" and when that work is over, it was established, and merged, as it were, into our now think of the press having the pleasure of cor-flourishing Zoological Society. Mr. Vigors' publication recting me."

Dublin, June 26, 1830.

is otherwise very generally interesting, from the view it takes of the rapíd advances recently made in every branch of zoological science. Many of the statements are curious, and the whole valuable.

H. G.'s lines cannot be inserted: nor F. W.'s. In answer to a Constant Reader's inquiry-There is, we are assured, no Librarian yet appointed to King's College; but the Secretary receives all presents of books, &c. and records them in a catalogue, in which the names of the donors are entered.

Steam-Carriage. A steam-carriage has been built at Leipsic, which is to run between that place and Dresden. It was to commence running on the 1st inst. The saving in time is inst. this morning, and there read an extract from the SIR, I happened to meet with your paper of the 5th expected to be about one half. The Dresden Life of Alexander Alexander, which alludes to me. I beg letter from which we take this information leave to say that every line of it is false, from beginning to end. I can conceive a poor devil circumstanced as you says, that this carriage is provided with an describe the author to be, writing lies, or picking pockets, apparatus for discharging the smoke imper-to get a livelihood; but I can with difficulty account for ceptibly, so as to prevent alarm to horses on the passage which has no other merit than its falsehood and respectability of the writer of this letter, we think it best the selection, by the editor of a "Literary Gazette," of a The Marquess of Sligo having vouched to us for the malignity, in order to recommend a work and its author to let him state his grievances in his own intemperate Spiders. Professor Weber, of Leipsic, states, to the generosity of the public. There was no Lieut.- language. If he had consulted his reason, instead of althat he watched a little spider as it was con- Alexander speaks of. I was colonel, commanding the Bri- ment as nature may have blessed him withal, he must Col. Wilson in the service of Venezuela at the time Mr. lowing his military feelings to run away with such judg structing its web between two trees. The tish brigade under General Bolivar, who treated me with have perceived that the "Reviewer" could have no cogthree principal points to which it was attached, great ingratitude; but neither he, nor General Paez, nor nizance of the transactions alluded to, except through the any body else that I know of, except "Alexander Alexan- work before him; and that whether Alexander was a faformed, as usual, an equilateral triangle. The der," ever thought of charging me with any of the ridicubricator of falsehoods, or Colonel Wilson a mere adventwo upper threads were fixed to the trunks of lous plots spoken of in the life of that person, nor with turer in a foreign service, must be alike unknown to him. the trees; but not finding a point to fix the being a spy for the Spaniards." It might have little The character of the Literary Gazette ought to protect it weight with the imprisoned libeller or his reviewer, per- from the suspicion of wishing to hurt the mind of any lower upon, the spider suspended from its ex-haps, were I to produce the testimony of the Commander- gentleman.

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