· to make a third paper of this interesting illus- | proved a fortunate speculation, and for obvious him with an attention and a benignity that tration of precocious talent. "At four, young Lawrence could take poetry and speeches, and attending to the to self-possession. As they entered, Sir Joshua reasons. Whilst the father was revelling in dissipated his apprehensions and restored him crayon likenesses; and it is a very remarkable drawings of his son, the hosts of the rival inns was examining the specimen of another juvefact, that at the age of five, his drawings of were attending to the drawing of the corks, nile aspirant, who had evidently come upon the eyes forcibly attracted the attention of Mr. and to all the details of their business. In same object. The youth stood in trembling Prince Hoare, at Bath. Fuseli, who was fond 1779, Mr. Lawrence and his family were expectation of the decision of the oracle, which of depreciating the merits of Sir Thomas, obliged to leave Devizes. In the first instance was to determine his course of life; and after would conclude a detracting sentence, by ut- they proceeded to Oxford, Mr. Lawrence's de- some ominous hems and hahs, some positive tering with his energy and strong emphasis sign being to turn his son's talents to some blame, and some condemning with faint praise, But he paints eyes better than Titian.' At profitable account. seven. the fame of Lawrence induced Sherwin years of age, and yet to him was the family encouragement of Well, well, go on, go on." The boy was only ten the Mecenas dismissed him with the negative to publish an engraving of his portrait; and obliged to look for assistance. The Bishop of The situation of young Lawrence during this an eminent author speaks of the child's won- Oxford, and many of the dignitaries of the scene may be easily imagined. Sir Joshua derful faculty at taking likenesses. The same University, in their way to Bath, had wit- now inspected the oil portrait of young Lawwriter expresses his delight at the boy's re- nessed the extraordinary talents of the inn- rence, of which I have already spoken. He citations. He describes him as reciting from keeper's child at Devizes; and upon their was evidently much struck with it. He disMilton and Shakespeare, with discrimination, return to Oxford, his genius had been the cerned those marks of genius which gave profeeling, and humorous set-off, by appropriate subject of much discussion. When, therefore, mise of the future fame of the artist. He attitudes, gestures, and varieties of tones; it was known that Mr. Lawrence and his bestowed on the painting a very long scrutiny, with a voice full, harmonious, and flexible. It family had arrived in the city, the father was in, as young Lawrence thought, an alarming may be remarked, that the Black Bear' at much noticed, and the child as much caressed. contrast to the more hasty glance with which Devizes was frequented by Garrick, Foote, The boy's pencil was in immediate requisition. he had dismissed the other. At last he adWilkes, Churchill, Barry, Henderson, Burke, Sheridan, and other great wits and orators; and fixed his residence in Alfred Place, where though serious and impressive: Stop, young In 1782, his father repaired to Bath, dressed the youth with an air of kindness, and no doubt the child must have attracted he was soon surrounded by the most intellectual man, I must have some talk with you. Well, their attention, and benefited by their remarks. and refined of the nobility and fashion of I suppose you think this is very fine, and this On one occasion, we find Sir William Cham- the place. Bath, at that time, was as the colouring very natural, hey, hey?' He then bers, the architect, praising the child's talents, west end of London, devoid of its mixed broke into a sterner tone, and began to analyse and Colonel Von Homrich giving him a guinea society and vulgarity, and it was the tem- the performance, and to point out imperfections for his beautiful hand-writing. Mr. and Mrs. porary sojourn of all that was titled, afflu- sufficient, in the alarmed imagination of the Garrick, when they were at Devizes, used to ent, or distinguished. By these was young sensitive lad, to destroy all hope of being a take the child into a summer-house, and amuse Lawrence patronised; and it became a fashion great painter. Presently, altering his tone, he themselves by his clever remarks and decla- to sit for his oval crayon portraits, the began to shew the other side' of the picturemation. When they arrived at the Black price of which was Bear, their first inquiry was for Master Tho- guinea to a guinea and a half. soon raised from one its merits; and he concluded in a mild manner, mas, and whether he had learnt any more At seventeen, he made his first attempt in oils. masters; but my advice to you is to study naspeeches. Mr. Hugh Boyd, one of the supposed The subject was Christ bearing the Cross, and ture; apply your talents to nature, and don't 'It is very clear you have been copying the old authors of Junius, was so enraptured with the the canvass was eight feet high. After this copy paintings.' beauty and cleverness of the child, that he large painting in oils, of Christ bearing the hand, and kindly told him he was welcome, invited the father, for the sake of the son, to Cross, young Lawrence painted his own por- whenever he chose to call. Young Lawrence He then took him by the his house in town we think, in Berkeley trait in oils. In this, he had evidently aimed was always well received by Sir Joshua from Square. They stayed with him several weeks, at the style of Rembrandt in his middle life, that hour to his last illness, which occurred during which he took the child to the houses when he had neglected his high finish, and four years after. of eminent persons, whom he delighted with availed himself of the broad fulness of the every element of worldly success; and when his extraordinary talents, particularly with his brush, with deep contrasts and sudden transi- the frequent parties of titled and eminently Mr. Lawrence possessed pencil. His copying some stuccoes, at the tions, and with great breadth of light and intellectual persons found he had the entré into house of Mr. Richard Lee, is spoken of as a very surprising proof of juvenile talent. Lawrence was in his eighteenth year. His the pleasure which this really great and good • On arriving in London, Sir Joshua's house; and when they witnessed The first painting that Lawrence ever saw, father immediately hired a very handsome suite man took in noticing the young aspirant, they except the daubs upon the country inns, or the of apartments (at four guineas a-week) over a drew inferences both of his talents and of his portraits over the farmers' chimney-pieces, was pastrycook's shop in Leicester-square. This future success. in 1777, when he was eight years old, and was at once indicates his love of display and his persons of consequence, and became a general taken through Corsham House, the seat of the possession of funds. These lodgings were within favourite. Very shortly after, his majesty and He was quickly noticed by Methuen family. Going over the rooms, the sight of the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the queen expressed their desire to patronise visitants totally forgot the child, and, retracing whose study and drawing-rooms were daily him. This is remarkable, for the late king had their steps, they found him in one of the visited by the nobility and the wealthy and never given a single order to Sir Joshua Reyrooms, rivetted to the spot by a painting of celebrated persons in London. This was a sight nolds; and his gratification in art was at that Rubens. Ah, I shall never be able to paint inspiring to a lad of real genius and laudable time exclusively confined to the pencil of Mr. like that!' was his exclamation upon their ambition. Provincial and metropolitan fame West. Sir Joshua had painted his majesty removing him from the picture. At the age of are very distinct; and notwithstanding young twice, but on each occasion at his own instance, ten, suddenly, and at his own suggestion, our Lawrence's having been the phenomenon of and at his own expense. young artist burst, from taking likenesses, into Bath, his having received the medal of the original compositions of the highest class. He Society of Arts, and his juvenile drawings painted as a subject, Christ reproving Peter having been talked of in London and Paris, for denying him before Pilate; and Reuben's these were scarcely sufficient introduction to a application to his father, that Benjamin_might step so bold as that of challenging the notice of accompany his brethren into Egypt. Encou- Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the height of his fame raged in these attempts, he next chose for a and splendour. But Sir Joshua was kind, and subject Haman and Mordecai,' which he easy of access to persons of decided talents; and finished with great rapidity. The fame of the Mr. Prince Hoare had paved the way for the juvenile artist now spread among the higher president's noticing young Lawrence. families of Wiltshire and the neighbouring Joshua, in reply to an application from the facounties; and we find Mr. Wild, of Lulworth ther, immediately appointed an interview; and Sir Castle, taking him to the Earl of Pembroke's, young Lawrence, with the sensibility inseparat Wilton, and to the mansions of other noble-able from worth and talents, was taken to men and gentlemen, who possessed galleries of the painting-room of this favoured head of the the eminent masters. • rence now felt the narrow circumstances of his struck by the beauty, and fine figure, and Mr. Law- English school of art. Sir Joshua was forcibly family. The Black Bear at Devizes had not graceful manners of the lad; and he received For the reasons assigned at the beginning shade. * At the death of Sir Joshua, Mr. Lawrence had not completed his twenty-third year, and yet numerous honours were bestowed on him, in preference to his very able competitors. The race was honourable to all; and his success was merited, and therefore excited no mean or malignant passions. The Dilettanti Society unanimously chose him to succeed Sir Joshua, as their painter, though, to effect this, they were vented the admission to the Society of any person who had not crossed the Alps. Mr. obliged to rescind a regulation, which preLawrence's foot had never quitted the soil of England. His majesty also appointed him to succeed Sir Joshua Reynolds as painter in associate to an academician." ordinary; and he was raised from the rank of منة of our first notice, we are compelled entirely His kindness to animals was excessive. It was advertisement; and to avoid any thing oxalic, to pass over a detailed description of the nume-not in his nature to inflict or to witness pain. be sure to ask for Hood's Epsom." rous and splendid works, the successive pro- In a letter to a lady he says, 'Have you had duction of which placed Sir Thomas Lawrence, more letters from Sir Walter? (Scott.) How Anti-Draco; or, Reasons for abolishing the by common consent, at the head of his profes- sincerely sorry I am to learn that his favourite Punishment of Death in Cases of Forgery. sion as a portrait-painter; and must confine hound is dead. A selfish regret has great part By a Barrister of the Middle Temple. Pp. 49. ourselves to copy a few personal anecdotes of in this feeling, for the fine animal was to have London, 1830. Ridgway. this amiable as well as celebrated man. been my subject.' .'*** No man was ever more WHOEVER the writer of this pamphlet is, he "On one occasion, a widow of a poor artist affectionate to relations. On the death of a has done himself great honour. It is an adwas told, in her distress, 'to try Mr. Lawrence,' niece, whose portrait he had taken, and had mirable production-humane in principle, forand she was buoyed up to expect 51. from him, had engraved, he writes to a friend, in great cible in argument, profound in legal acquireas he was a liberal man.' She repaired to his depression of spirits I have lost a sweet, ments, beautiful in morality, and irresistible in house, and created very strongly his sympathy good, modest little being, in my niece Susan; its general conclusion. Unless, indeed, the for her misfortunes. Having left the house, but who can, for the innocent, lament the death people of a country had become hardened by she unfolded the paper he had given her; and, of the innocent? It is a severe affliction to usage to the horrid spectacle of human life what was her astonishment to find it not a five her parents, sisters, and friends. I feel thank- continually and ignominiously sacrificed for but a fifty pound note! Mr. B, the artist, ful that this one talent, which God has given crimes of the least, equally as for crimes of the was in great pecuniary distress, which came to me, has, in this case, afforded consolation to my deepest, atrocity, the publication of such an the ears of Sir Thomas. One morning Mr. B. good sister and her family, by perpetuating the appeal never could have been necessary. Death unexpectedly called upon a mutual friend, in form, and expressing the nature, of this lovely has truly been called the remedy for all human every appearance of gladness. It was to relate, lamented being, my dear Susan.'*** No idea ills: our bloody statute-book seems to have that Sir Thomas Lawrence had sent him a pre- could have been entertained that the dissolu- considered it the remedy for all human offences. sent of a 1001. note, which, added Mr. B. tion of this amiable and enlightened man was Except where modified by sheer accident-the has relieved me from my distress, and has so fast approaching. On the 24th of Decem-caprice of a judge, the condition of a calendar, made my wife's heart leap for joy.' When his ber, a fortnight before his death, he dined the under-word of a constable or à gaoler, -it man, Robert, who had long been in the habit alone with an old and confidential friend. In has said alike, let the remorseless murderer die, of setting his palettes, &c. for him, fell ill, Sir the course of conversation he observed that, let the forger of a name for a few pounds of Thomas used to call on him at his lodgings, sit from the regularity of his living, and the care property die, let the cruel violator of the person with him, and read to him; and he supported him he took of his health, he thought he might die, and let the petty thief who has broken a to his death. When he went down to Haslar, attain a good old age; but nevertheless he pane of glass and stolen a pocket-handkerchief, to attend his brother's funeral, he witnessed would wish to insure his life for 5000l.; and let him die!! Hang the sanguinary monster the total destruction of the hut of a poor telling his age, he asked what would be the who has butchered a whole family; ay, and waterman, by the gale, which was so violent as premium. He fixed on the Friday to effect hang the famishing wretch who has robbed the to do very considerable damage to many public the assurance-on the previous day he ex-flock of a single lamb. Let the "protecting works. The wretchedness of the poor man,pired!" 6 stop. genius of the public executioner" guard our with his wife and numerous children in a state We now conclude; and shall only hint at the lives from the assassin, our midnight rest from of nakedness, as they saw their whole property expediency of making such volumes as these the burglar, our pocket from the coiner and swept away, made a deep impression upon Sir school-books. Young persons are drudged forger, our property from the picker and stealer. Thomas Lawrence, whose mind was already through the same thing so often, that they lose But we will not attempt to go over any of the oppressed with melancholy. He entered into all interest in what is placed before them to ground so ably occupied by the production bethe feelings of the sufferers, but what he gave read. Their tasks are truly so.. But give fore us; and we have only to add, that it them we know not; this, however, is known, them novelty combined with merit, to attract, demonstrates the utter inconsistency and insufthat when a few years afterwards he again to exercise, and to form their minds, and ficiency of the reform which has just been went to Portsmouth to witness the death of his their lessons may be made pleasures to which sanctioned by the legislature. The comfort is, remaining brother, he found the man and his they will devote themselves with greater alacrity that the good work is begun, and that it cannot family prosperous in a small cottage, and re- than to the play-ground itself. ceived from them their warmest gratitude for having enabled them to do well in the world.' A Letter addressed to Thomas Simpson, M.D. After the funeral, he took leave of these poor The Epping Hunt. By T. Hood, Esq. &c. (of York), on the Subject of Horse Exercise; people; and, praising their sober and indus- A SECOND edition of this whimsical jeu d'es- pointing out the Cause of its pre-eminent trious habits, he gave them a ten-pound note.- prit does not call upon us to enter on another Utility, as illustrated by the Author's own Sir Thomas sometimes defended himself very wild goose chase; and we only notice it for the Case. Pp. 23. London, Underwood; Baldhumorously from the encroachments of sordid sake of copying the announcement by which win and Co.; Longman and Co.: York, Baravarice, as well as from the annoyance of silly we find it accompanied, and which promises us clay and Edinburgh, Lizars. : and purse-proud vanity. On one occasion, another hearty laugh with our punning friend, THE pre-eminent utility of horse exercise, as when a lady of property wished her portrait and his able graphic coadjutor, George Cruik-illustrated by the author's own case"! we taken gratis, on the ground that her face would shank. It is as follows-and worthy of the make a capital picture that would do the artist author: 6 66 wish we could add, and by his reviewer's; but a terrible downfal the other day has not only credit, Sir Thomas concluded his neatly turned "Many persons having expressed a desire and delicately ironical compliments to her that the Epping Hunt' should have a com-public opinion on this question has just appeared: it conA novel and striking mode of illustrating the force of beauty, with, but it is some years since I panion, the author immediately expressed his sists of a map of the kingdom in which no place is laid painted for fame.' When a wealthy lady was readiness to comply with the wish as soon as down but such cities, towns, &c. (214 in number) as have once exceedingly desirous that her portrait he could provide himself with a suitable sub-petitioned against the punishment of death for forgery. It is so well filled a chart, that we must think a judge should be worth the money, she concluded every ject. In consequence, numerous hints, recom- would be most painfully circumstanced were he to leave expression of sordid fear with the question, mendations, and applications, have been for- an offender for execution for the crime of forgery at any But how will you paint it, Sir Thomas?' Sir warded to him from all quarters the proprietors cament, a strong inducement is held out for the commisof these, or indeed any other assize town. In this predíThomas, with great good humour, kept mak-of sundry wakes and revels preferring very sion of forgery; and nothing can be more injurious than ing the reply, "Why, madam, you pay to have urgent requests in behalf of their own sports. law one way, and the popular sentiment so strong the the present unsatisfactory state of the subject, with the it well done, do you not?' On the other hand, Above all, the inhabitants of Epsom made such other way, as to render the carrying the law into effect he would often paint from friendship. An old a grand stand for the Epsom races, that he was almost impossible. It is worthy of remark, that this, friend begged him to recommend a cheap but induced to take his course to theirs. The re-recently been held out from high quarters; for, if we can however, is not the only temptation to crime which has competent artist, to take the likeness of his sult has been satisfactory. Instructed by the believe the newspaper reports from the Old Bailey, Mr. nephew, who was about to sail to India. Sir gentlemen of the betting ring how to make Baron Garrow has incautiously cheered on the guilty of every class to try their hands, by the chance of escape Thomas duly promised, but, as usual, deferred up a book,' he is preparing a little volume, to which he tells them is now reserved for them in the Capithe execution, until he was told that it was too be called Epsom Races,' illustrative of the tal Lottery. The jury had recommended some convict late. He was evidently chagrined; but, to yearly festival on those celebrated Downs. It to mercy, and the judge is reported to have said-" he had great pleasure in telling the jury that, from what he make amends, he made the young gentleman will be accompanied, as usual, by various ap-had recently observed, their recommendation would meet call upon him the next morning very early, propriate designs, or, to speak in turf language, with every attention in the proper quarter. The royal and in a few hours took an admirable likeness, with several plates for all ages. Due notice mercy was unbounded, and would in future be exercised in every case that called for its interposition." Has it not which he sent as a present to the uncle." of the time of starting will be given by public been so heretofore? 6 put us hors de combat as it regards such an and its ravages were so dreadful, that it de-cause of virtue and honour, should have been addition, but almost past the power of offering stroyed almost all whom it attacked. For six selected to promulgate my appeal in favour of any opinion upon the subject. The writer weeks, from twenty-five to thirty persons died the Northern Libraries. asserts that the motion of his horse produced daily in the town; and in the country in an increased oxidisement of the blood in the proportion. This is attributed to the want of lungs, and thus restored him from debility: proper precaution; and the American journalbut the motion of ours caused a profuse ooze-ists assert, that in consequence of similar negment of blood from the head, and has thus ligence, the population of New Orleans has reduced us to debility. Perhaps much depends been thrice renewed in ten years! on the mode of riding, and especially on the horse. For instance, if the author's horse had tumbled with him at a smart canter, and made such equal wounds on its own knees and his caput that it would be difficult to tell which were the worst, he would not have published this pamphlet. But it seems to have been a gentle, medical beast; and he to have derived great benefit by keeping upon its back, whilst at the same it kept its legs. On the whole, therefore, maimed as we are, we are still in clined to join in the recommendation of equestrianism, to bring atmospheric air into the lungs and invigorate the vital principles. ARTS AND SCIENCES. LITERARY AND LEARNED. I would now beg to acquaint you, that my request has been supported by the liberal con tributions of Earl Spencer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, Sir Frederick B. Watson, Archdeacon Butler, Thomas Rickman, Esq., William Lloyd, Esq., John Lee, Esq., LL.D., Joshua Watson, Esq., Capt. W. H. Smyth, Rev. Peter Fraser, and Sampson Hanbury, Esq., and by SIR ALEXANDER JOHNSTON in the chair.other kind patrons of literature, whose choice Many donations connected with oriental lite- selections of books will open a wide field of rature and art were made to the Society; study to the industrious inhabitants of those amongst these we noticed Captain Macan's col- inclement regions; and be the means of directlated edition of the original Persian text of the ing their attention to many important subjects, celebrated poem of Firdousee, entitled, the from which science may be expected to draw a Shah Nameh, or Book of Kings. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. rich harvest. Mr. Houghton's account of a tombstone, As the amount (2507.) which I anticipate is, lately presented to the Society by Mr. Samuel however, far from being complete, I would Broughton, was read. This curious relic of again invite the co-operation of those who are eastern antiquity was obtained by the late friendly to the progress of knowledge; and I Mr. Salt, when in company with Lord Va- beg to add, that I shall keep the sentiments lentia, at a town called Dhalac el Kibeer, expressed in my former appeal open for a near Massowah, on the Red Sea coast of month or six weeks, after which time the Abyssinia. It is of the kind commonly called whole collection will be confided to the integA REPORT made by M. Moreau de Jonnés to clinkstone, and is in a wonderful state of rity and discretion of Professor Rafn. the Conseil Supérieur de Santé, at Paris, con-preservation, when its great age is consiI have the honour to be, &c. tains a number of facts with respect to the dered. The inscription upon it is very slightly NICHOLAS CARLISLE. irruption and progress of pestilential disorders engraved, but quite perfect, and bears date in the year 1829; from which we extract the A. H. 439, answering to A. D. 1047. following: the interior of the Crimea. The Somerset Place. THE BYZANTINE HISTORIANS. inscription is Arabic, written in Cufic charac- THE collection of the works of the Byzantine The Plague. Favoured by the occurrences ters, and consists of fourteen lines, of which of the war in the East, the plague appeared in the first nine and a half contain the usual for historians, publishing under the auspices of 1829 at several parts of the shore of the Black mulary of monumental inscriptions, being a M. Niebuhr and other able philologists, is raSea. In the month of July it visited Varna, passage from the Koran; after which comes fus, and Nicephorus C.P., have recently ap pidly advancing to its close. Georgius Syncelthe neighbourhood of Odessa, and some of the the following vessels of the Russian squadron. Towards the the daughter of Muhammad, the tailor. She the least important of these writers, has been "This is the grave of Fatima, peared at Bonn. Syncellus, by no means one of end of August it manifested itself at Sevastopol, was buried on the Sabbath day (Saturday), intrusted to the revision of M. Dindorf, whose the grand maritime arsenal of Russia in the the 10th of the Muharram (6th July), in the works have rendered him justly celebrated. In Black Sea. Two cordons of troops formed round the town, prevented its spreading into blessing be upon Muhammad and his descend-availed himself of two manuscripts in the Paris year 439. Praise be to God, and may his a short preface, M. Dindorf states that he has ants. The peace of God be with you!" The Cholera Morbus. This terrible scourge, A notice respecting the natives of New Gui- library. The one served as the basis of the which for twelve years had afflicted all the nea, by W. Marsden, Esq., followed the pre- Father Goar; the other is mentioned in Brecountries in Asia, seems to have had its power ceding paper. The observations in it princi- dow's Parisian Letters. M. Dindorf calls Goar first edition published at Paris in 1652, by limited in 1829. It was not so in the pre-pally refer to the existence of cannibalism mediocri homo doctrinâ, artis critice facultate ceding year. In the month of April it ap- among the natives of that island; and the inpeared in Bengal, and attacked with violence formation supplied was derived by Mr. Mars- nullá, negligentiá incredibili; but has neverthe garrisons and inhabitants of Calcutta, den through the medium of the Malayan lan- theless reprinted his Chronological Canon, his Cawnpore, and Chittagong. In the month of guage, from two Lascar seamen of the East In-Notes, and even his Index! The republication June it appeared in Bombay, at the other dia Company's ship Northumberland, who with of Syncellus must, however, be very serviceable extremity of the Indian peninsula; and in at the present moment, facilitating as it does a many others were carried off by the natives October attacked Madras and its neighbour- during a temporary visit of the ship in March knowledge of the dynasties of Egypt. As for hood. It was introduced into Borneo, and 1783, but who were subsequently released Nicephorus, that Archbishop of Constantinople infected the Dutch garrison of Pontiana. The through the interference of a neighbouring abridgment, in which facts have been intermerely gave a chronographia compendiaria, an greatest mortality, however, occurred in the rajah. We omit the details respecting the neighbourhood of Calcutta. Whole villages habits and customs of these islanders contained calated, posterior to his epoch. were depopulated; and in the city several in Mr. Marsden's communication. public functionaries, and many of the inhabitants of the first classes of society, perished KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. FINE ARTS. Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees, distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty. Drawn from Nature by Jacob George Strutt. Royal 8vo. after eight hours' illness; some after only two. In referring to the subjoined appointments, The Yellow Fever. In 1829, the yellow which we understand to have been this week fever extended its ravages to a less number of made by the council of this institution, we are places in America than usual. There was no bound to add, that we consider them as conappearance of it at Martinique, or Guadaloupe, stituting an auspicious earnest of the talent throughout the year. The great Antilles were which will characterise those departments to WHEN this work appeared in its folio shape, in not so fortunate. The yellow fever existed at which the professors remain yet to be ap- the year 1828, it was noticed in the Literary Port Royal in Jamaica in the month of April. pointed: To the professorship of mathe- Gazette with the commendation which was its In the first ten days of May, thirty sailors matics, the Rev. T. G. Hall, of Magdalen Col- due. We think Mr. Strutt perfectly justified belonging to the crew of the Magnificent fell lege, Cambridge; surgery, J. H. Green, Esq.; in the hope which he expresses in his preface victims to it. In July it reigned on board the practice of physic, Dr. F. Hawkins; anatomy to the present publication, namely, "that this merchant vessels in the Road of Havannah; and physiology, Herbert Mayo, Esq.; theory of comparatively small edition will afford a gratiand the hospitals were filled with individuals physic and therapeutics, Dr. Bisset Hawkins. fication similar to that which a lover of art who had been attacked by it. Nevertheless, derives from comparing a finished miniature the island of Portico Rico, which is separated with the same subject in full size-fidelity of from Cuba only by a narrow channel, remained representation being alike adhered to in both entirely free from it. New Orleans imported instances." It is undoubtedly true, as Mr. Strutt finely observes, that, "indepe: dently of NORTHERN LIBRARIES. To the Editor, &c. SIR, I have esteemed it fortunate that the it in the month of October from Havannah; same columns which are so vigilant in the sprung, For ever lovely and for ever young! Now, ye bright sitters of the middle skies! all other considerations, trees afford such de-phet Nahum. Our pages have already dwelt | Or, in fierce mirth, some rude Eolian form lightful individuality, joined with such exqui- upon the merits of this sublime and poetical Chafes up the riotous pageant of a storm: site variety of character, and bring with them production; so that nothing is now requisite Though by the harrowy sled of wheeling Time so many charming and hallowed associations of from us but a notice of the engraving. And So often traced, still beauteous and sublime; liberty and peace, of rural enjoyment or con- when we say that it possesses the grandeur of Fresh as when first from Nature's womb she templative solitude, of the sports of childhood the original, and conveys the same powerful or the meditations of old age,-in short of all impressions to the mind, we need hardly add that can refresh or exalt the soul, that it is another syllable to recommend it to the public wonderful they have not hitherto been more attention. It is, indeed, a glorious conception decided objects of interest to the painter and the living desperation and ruin in the forethe amateur, than merely what may arise from ground--the magnificent architecture, doomed their introduction, rather as accidents in pic-so soon to perish, too, though apparently built torial delineation, than as pictures in them- for eternity--and the elemental strife of the selves: yet what can afford more delightful threatening heavens, are all combined in the contrast in landscape than the giant strength wide swoop of desolation. In one word, the of the oak, with the flexile elegance of the ash; sheet is an epic. the stately tranquillity of the elm, with the tremulous lightness of the poplar; the bright and varied foliage of the beech or sycamore, with the funereal majesty of the cedar or yew; all differing in form and character, as in colour." We can scarcely conceive a more agreeable way of enjoying an autumn than, with Mr. Strutt's volume in our hands, to pay our court to all the sylvan monarchs whom he has so happily depicted and described. Great Britain Illustrated. From Drawings by Tilt. THIS pleasing publication is proceeding with "MIRKWOOD MERE," from a drawing by The Ruins and Scenery of South Wales. From Drawings after Nature by J. E. H. Robinson. Executed on Stone by J. E. H. Robinson and J. S. Templeton. Engelmann and 66 Co. A a M. Boai.-A lithographic representation of late king, we have received specimens of his George IV. Among the memorials to the "THE Castle and Monastic Ruins, and other rather card, of various colours, and surrounded portrait, embossed by Mr. Dobbs, in paper, or Architectural Antiquities of Wales," observes by emblematical ornaments. These are strong the prospectus of this interesting publication, likenesses, and beautifully executed: indeed, are very numerous; those of South Wales the effect of this art is as pleasing as it is new exceeding fifty; and are justly celebrated for in its application to such subjects. their picturesque beauty, and variously interesting expression. Many of them are in high preservation, and from their generally bold and elevated situations, objects of commanding attraction and interest. The scenery that sur- SINCE cloud-borne Chaos his dark ensign furled rounds them is generally fine, and often Till now heard idly flapping through the world, extremely captivating and impressive." The And fled before the cherub-van appeared present is the first of twelve numbers, each Whose thunderous step foretold the fate he containing six plates, in which these ruins and this scenery are to be represented. The plates are executed in a very free and pleasing style of lithography. ORIGINAL POETRY. feared; [gun Since Heaven's great work of wonder was beAnd light came roaring from the fountain sun; Quiet, through space, a blind rough thing of Dr. Wollaston. Drawn by Sir T. Lawrence, This Earth of ours has wound her airy way; clay, P.R.A. Engraved by F. C. Lewis. Tiffin. A MASTERLY and beautiful imitation of Sir Still in her motion, steady though she turns, Thomas's drawing of this eminent man; of Nor the soft rule that sways her ever spurns; whom it has been justly remarked, that "there Onward she goes, in silent joy of speed, are few persons whose names are more inti-Creature well worth Creation's toil indeed! mately connected with the general history of From her rich breast teeming no less a store learning and science in the nineteenth cen- Than Life needs (some philanthropists say tury." The Fall of Nineveh. By John Martin. MR. MARTIN has re-produced this splendid picture, as he has done his former great works, in mezzotinto; and thus multiplied the proofs of his extraordinary genius, in embodying in a picture the terrible scene described by the pro more); Varied with gentle slope, and cliff, and plain, For ever feeding with a silver flow ceive? We do!"-What is it? "La! we can't And now we mark, some creep, some go on There are some millions of such moving things; [some two." What are the bipeds like?"'Faith, much The creepers what?" Some have four feet, wings." like you!" 'Would it were not so! but alack 'tis true! Well! can you guess what sort of things they be, [see: Reptiles, I own, but of what sort? "Let's A tribe, perhaps, of earth-worms.”—O most Can ye no trace of their great nature find? These are the Mighty Creatures called-Man blind! kind! Mark you that monad?" Hey-a perky thing, With rod and ball? what's that ?"Tis called, a king! His throne is surely three hairs'-breadth in Of potent atoms such as this, a score Hath it not something of an air-a grace— But say,--those light things flitting here and I guess it is our butterflies you mean ; Gay (painted too, most like), of garish dress; Yet 'tis the vermin-tribe at which ye sneer Disturb, defoul, disgrace this patient Sphere; War, tumult, faction, thirst for blood or dross, Her peaceful wish, and God's good pleasure, cross; Minims! with Folly big, in Vice o'ergrown, And daily lost in that great globe of dust they think their own! FIRST AND LAST.NO. IX. The First and Last Hope. 'Tis past, tis o'er! my first hope's knell On the clouds by which 'twas nurst. 'Tis past, 'tis o'er! and now my brow Is free from passions wild, My spirit is as quiet now As a slumbering dreamless child. The loveliest and the last. And its falsehood I have proved. I blame thee not: thy heart was given Thy vows to her approved by Heaven, I feel no pang-I've felt but one, And left me broken-hearted. But now I see thee as a thing That I must leave behind: I hear death's summons murmuring, A peace within my breast. 'Tis that last hope, the holy trust, Worton Lodge, Isleworth. M. A. BROWNE. MUSIC. Extract from a Sketch of an Ercursion in the Interior of ness as well as precision in his performance; much pleased, is that of deep melancholy and The idle tales that have been spread respecting Paganini are wholly undeserving of notice; and must have had their origin in envy, detraction, and calumny. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia have conferred honours on him; and before doing so, their majesties were no doubt informed of his history: how then could those illustrious personages ever have thought of bestowing favours on a criminal? Farther refutation of such scandal would be an insult on common sense. DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. But the peculiarity of his performance is more especially acquired by means that cannot generally be admitted. The strings of his violin are much thinner than they usually are on the instruments of other performers: this greatly facilitates his execution, but it also de- THE sudden and somewhat unexpected reteriorates his tone. Those who recollect the appearance of the "uncertain" Malibran, has performance on the violin on Viotti, and now been the only novelty worthy of notice since hear his countryman Paganini, will, in this our last report. On Saturday night, after particular, find a great falling off. The strings the conclusion of the first act of Il Turco in of Paganini's violin being uncommonly thin, Italia,-a piece, by the by, which, if acted and his instrument altogether of small dimen- entire, must be most popular, from the spirit sions, he is enabled to tune it half a note higher and strength of its cast,-the first act of the than the concert pitch of the orchestra. Ac- Barber of Seville succeeded the first doings of cordingly he plays in D, when the orchestra the Turk in Italy. Madame Malibran enacted accompanies him in E flat. Now the perform- the role of Rosina; and though her reception ance in D major being much easier than in was characterised by a degree of coldness on E flat major, his execution by that means is the part of her numerous auditory, and which much facilitated, though he is necessarily con- we are sorry so admirable a songstress should fined to such music as is calculated to answer provoke by her caprice, it is but justice to say, his peculiar purpose. His solo pieces are, in that we never heard her sing better, or so little consequence, few in number; and if he gives indulge in unmeaning ornament. Indeed, we several concerts at one place, he does not scruple were inclined to agree with the Abigail in Sheto play the same concerto two or even three ridan's comedy, that "illness best becomes her times in succession. It is on account of this ladyship ;" and that Madame M. always looks advantage that he always tunes his instrument best and sings most delightfully, when most in a room by himself, only sending for a violin disposed to be indisposed. The fulness and from the orchestra that has previously been firmness of tone in which she executed the tuned, and never touching his own instrument difficult cavatina of Una voce poca fa, evinced publicly with the bow till the orchestra begins. splendid powers; and we had no reason to susWhen he plays variations, he frequently pect illness but from the circumstance of her alters the pitch of one of the strings between appearing slip-shod on the boards, and treading the variations, obtaining thus different inter- the stage with the heels of her shoes down, as vals, by means of which much novelty is pro- if the fascinating siren" had chilblains in duced. His performing a few pieces only on the dogdays. But, joking apart, though this the G string, is remarkable rather on account vocalist has often disappointed the public, we of its novelty than of its utility. do not think it altogether kind in the au As to the general character of his perform-ditory to seem so austere. Madame M.'s ance, its leading feature is a plaintive tend-singing of the song we have particularised, SIR NICOLO PAGANINI's performance on the ency, sometimes interchanged with a frolic- merited the encore which was called for, though violin is truly remarkable, and such as perhaps some jest, and emitting occasionally the sparks over-ruled by other voices. When a singer has never before been heard; but it is rather of brilliancy; but of grandeur, greatness, or sings well, all little tricks behind the curtain the eccentricity of his performance, than any dignity, it has none. Nor is there any such a should be forgotten; and when an artist does particular excellence, that elicits such general thing as grace belonging either to his exe- her best, and such an artist too, why we can. applause. In saying this, I am not to be un-cution or his appearance. On the contrary, not help thinking that to shew resentment is derstood as depreciating his talent; for his exe-it is rather his ghostly exterior that excites so as unworthy of the house, as to commit pettish cution on the instrument is such as could only much attention. He is only forty-seven years extravagances is ridiculous in the actor. have been acquired by intense study and appli- of age, yet his whole person is extremely cation during many years: there is great clear-meager and emaciated. In addition to this, his thin and pale face is nearly concealed under A recent traveller has favoured us with the following, his long black hair, which hangs down almost by far the most lively, sketch of this celebrated performer which we have yet seen.-Ed. to his shoulders. His look, except when he is Of the admirable performance of Santini in Figaro, we have before spoken: he is certainly the best on the boards. Tuesday night the first acts of Matilda di Shabran, and Il Turco in Italia were tacked |