decidedly different; and the comparative ana-bas-reliefs, which had been half destroyed by ments, the details of which would here be mistomy of both was detailed at some length. A the early Christians; and a door of rose gra- placed, it follows:

tans.

preserved bird of both species, and several pre-nite, still standing in the midst of these ruins 1. That Thothmosis I. immediately sucpared parts of each, as well as numerous draw- of fine white lime-stone, assured me that the ceeded the great Amenothph I., the chief of ings, were on the table, in illustration of the whole building belonged to the best epoch of the eighteenth dynasty, one of the Diospolisubject. The paper concluded with an appro- Egyptian art. priate eulogium on the merits of the celebrated This door, or little propylon, is entirely 2. That his son Thothmosis II. occupied Bewiek of Newcastle, as a tribute due to the covered with hieroglyphic legends. On the the throne after him, and died without chilmemory of an artist who had produced such jambs are sculptured, in very low and deli- dren. unrivalled representations of British ornitho- cate relief, two pedestrian images of Pharaohs, 3. That his sister Amensé succeeded, as the logy. The various anatomical peculiarities of invested with their insignia. All the dedica- daughter of Thothmosis I., and reigned twentythis new species were considered highly in- tions are double, and drawn up contempora- one years as sovereign. teresting, and the proofs of distinction conclu-neously in the names of two princes. The 4. That this queen had for her first hussive. Several donations in literature were one who constantly holds the right, or the band a Thothmosis, who comprehended in made. his proper name that of Queen Amensé, his wife; and that this Thothmosis was the father of Thothmosis III., or Mæris, and governed in Amensé's name.

MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.

first place, is called Amenenthé; the other,
who only comes after, is Thothmosis III.,
called by the Greeks Moris.

If I experienced some surprise at seeing both
here and in all the rest of the building the cele-
brated Maris, ornamented with all the marks
of royalty, thus yielding precedence to this
Amenenthé, for whom it would be in vain to
seek in the royal list, I was still more astonished,
on reading the inscriptions, to discover that, in
speaking of this bearded king, clothed in the
ordinary dress of the Pharaohs, only feminine
nouns and verbs were used, as if it were a queen
that was treated of. As an example, I quote
the very dedication of the propylons: -

5. That on the death of this Thothmosis, Queen Amensé took for her second husband Amenenthé, who also governed in Amense's name, and who was regent during the minority and the early years of Thothmosis III., or Moris.

6. That Thothmosis III., the Maris of the Greeks, exercised the royal power conjointly with the regent Amenenthé, who retained him under his (Amenenthé's) guardianship for several years.

AT the anniversary meeting the matters in dispute between the Society and Mr. Frost were again brought forward. One meeting, at which Earl Stanhope presided, was held in Sackville Street; whilst another, on the same day, at which Mr. Frost was chairman, took place at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. At the former, Mr. Frost's office of director was declared to be unnecessary and inexpedient; therefore no person was chosen to it: the other officers were elected as heretofore. Earl Stanhope still charged Mr. F. with keeping possession of the Society's books and herbaria, The knowledge of this succession of personthe costly gold chain and medal, &c. &c.; also ages explains quite naturally the singularities with having made grave misrepresentations to remarked in the minute examination of all the his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, rest of the sculptures existing in the edifice of and even in a still higher quarter; and with the valley of El-Asassif. It renders intelligible having led the noble earl, on erroneous grounds, why the regent Amenenthe appears in the to sign a minute of expulsion against one of bas-reliefs only to receive the gracious speeches the first botanists of the age. There were a On the other jamb there is an analogous which the gods address to Queen Amensé, of variety of other charges, which we pass over. dedication, but in the name of King Thoth- whom he is but the representative: it explains At the other meeting, again, Mr. Frost was mosis III., or Moris. the style of the dedications made for Amenot slack in animadverting on the noble earl's On going over the remainder of these ruins nenthé, speaking himself in the name of the conduct. It is quite out of the question to the same singularity was every where appa- queen; as well as the dedications of the same trespass on our columns to the extent neces- rent. Not only did I find the prænomen of kind, in which we read the name of Thothsary for a systematic report of the proceedings Amenenthé precede the titles of "sovereign mosis, Amense's first husband, who in the at these two meetings; we have already stated king of the world," but also the proper name first instance enjoyed the same passive office, the substance of what did take place. An extra-judicial application will be made, it is said, to the Lord Chancellor for recovering the Society's property.

ANCIENT AND MODERN EGYPT.

Mons. Champollion's Fifteenth Letter. Thebes, Nov. 18, 1829. Oy quitting the noble and elegant palace of Sesostris, the Rhamesseion, and before studying, with all the care they deserve, the numerous antique edifices piled on the artificial mound now called Medinet-Habou, I was obliged, in the regular execution of my undertaking, to examine several intermediate or neighbouring badings, which, on account either of their Imited extent, or of their almost total state of destruction, attract, in a much less degree, the notice of travellers.

66 Aroeris, the support of the pious, the noble king, &c. the Sun devoted to truth, she has raised these structures in honour of her father Amon-Ra, lord of the thrones of the world, she has raised to him this propylon (may Amon protect the building!) in granite stone: this she has done to live for ever."

itself following the title of "Daughter of the
Sun." Finally, in all the bas-reliefs represent-
ing the gods addressing this king Amenenthé,
Amenenthé is treated as a queen, as in the fol-
lowing formula :-

"This is what Amon-Ra, the lord of the
thrones of the world, says to his beloved daugh-
ter, the Sun devoted to truth-The building
which thou hast raised is like the divine resi-
dence.''

New facts still more strongly excited my curiosity. I observed, every where in the legends on the granite propylon, that the prænominal and nominal cartouches of Amenenthé had been defaced in ancient times, and replaced by those of Thothmosis III., sculptured upon them.

and was only, like his successor, Amenenthé, a kind of representative of the royal authority exercised by the queen.

The super-sculptures which the greater number of the regent Amenenthé's legends have suffered, shew that his regency was odious and burdensome to his ward Thothmosis III. The latter seems to have endeavoured to condemn his guardian to eternal oblivion. It was, in fact, under the reign of Thothmosis III. that almost all Amenenthé's legends were defaced, and either the legends of Thothmosis III., whose authority he had no doubt usurped, or those of Thothmosis, Amense's first husband, and, indeed, the father of the reigning king, sculptured in their stead. I have observed the systematic destruction of those legends in a number of bas-reliefs existing in various other parts of Thebes. Was it the immediate work In the first instance I directed my steps Lastly, several others presented the præno- of Thothmosis III.'s personal hatred, or a towards the valley of El-Asassif, situated to men of a Thothmosis hitherto unknown, com base flattery on the part of the sacerdotal the north of the Rhamesseion, and terminat-prehending also in his cartouche the proper name body? It is impossible now to determine that ing abruptly at the feet of the calcareous rocks of the female Amensé; the whole still sculp-question; but I have thought the fact sufof the Libyan chain, where exist the ruins of tured at the expense of Amenenthé's legends, ficiently curious to be marked. an edifice to the north of the tomb of Osy- previously defaced. I then recollected having All the inscriptions on the monument of Elmandyas. remarked this new king Thothmosis treated as a queen in the little edifice of Thothmosis III., at Medinet-Habou.

In other parts, some of Amenenthé's legends had received above them those of the Pharaoh Thothmosis II.

My special object being to ascertain the hitherto unknown epoch of those structures, and their primitive destination, I applied my- On comparing these various facts and cirself to the examination of the sculptures, and cumstances with several observations of the particularly of the hieroglyphic legends in- same kind, the first results of my rambles in scribed on the isolated blocks, and the faces the grand palace and propylon of Karnac, I of walls, scattered over a rather large space of ground.

I was in the first place struck with the delicacy of execution in several remains of

arrived at the completion of my acquaintance
with the personel of the first part of the eight-
eenth dynasty. From the combination of all
the evidences furnished by the various monu.

Asassif unanimously prove, that that building was erected under the regency of Amenenthé, in the name of Queen Amensé and her young son, Thothmosis III. This structure, therefore, was not posterior to the year 1736 before Christ; an epoch approximating to the first years of the reign of Thothmosis III., exercising alone the supreme power. Its sculptures, therefore, already boast of more than 3,500 years' antiquity.

[Conclusion of this Letter in our next.]

LITERARY AND LEARNED.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

known to be endowed with sense and wisdom; and their head of the present notice, tells us that he has having mentioned our august name in the assembly, and

enrolled it in the records of the Society in a suitable and read it carefully, and that it contains more THE President in the chair. The first part faith; and we are enabled to entertain a hope that our perspicuous terms, and illustrated by appro appropriate manner, has increased our confidence and practical information (conveyed in simple and of a paper on achromatic telescopes, by Mr. future actions will obtain the praise and approbation of Tully, was read. In the library, the Chevalier those celebrated for wisdom and justice-such having priate examples) on the study of the art of Aldini, of Milan, exhibited his apparatus and We can with truth assert, that the acquisition of new ter- similar size and price that he ever met with. always been, and still continuing to be, our earnest desire. painting in water colours, than any work of a material intended to preserve persons from ritories would not have caused us that degree of gratifica. It appears to be admirably adapted as a newand according to the expressions and cordiality of heart year's present to young persons who shew an tion which we experienced on the receipt of their letter; which they have evinced towards us, we shall also in inclination for the fine arts. future, with true pleasure and satisfaction of heart, consider ourselves as amongst the members of that Society; and we consider this special election as the means of mak- The ensuing month's portrait in La Belle ing ourselves more extensively known; and we request of Assemblée is the Countess of Wicklow, by their wisdom and justice may permit them; and that they Say, from Harlow. It is a sweet specimen of them that they will always speak of us in their Society as will preserve and continue, with suitable and proper ob- the artist's skill, and not unworthy of the servances, the rights of that friendship and union which originated in them; and in consequence of this connexion preceding series of sixty-two of the female they also will not be forgotten from our minds filled with nobility. kindness. Considering the inclination of our heart perfect, let them make known to us their wishes and comDated Ramzan, 1243 (March 1828).

injury who are exposed to flames. Chevalier Aldini, it is stated, has, by perseverance, been able to spin and weave asbestos: the cloths prepared from it are not of very close texture, the threads being about 1-50th of an inch in diameter, and of considerable strength. This material, in union with a covering of metallic gauze to intercept flame, forms the chevalier's preventive. An Italian fireman, who was in attendance, put on a glove composed of asbestos, and firmly grasped the red-hot end of a large poker, which he held for a considerable time without appearing to experience any inconvenience: one or two of the Fellows of the Society performed the same feat.

ASIATIC SOCIETY.

missions."

No. 2. "We have to write and affirm, that although we have not seen the Members of the Royal Asiatic Society, we have heard much in their praise: we are desirous, beyond all bounds, to see that assembly, although we know this desire is very difficult to be attained and effected. The noblest quality which man can possess superior to the rest of mankind; and of all things from which advantage can be derived, the greatest is the affection which the wise entertain (for others), and the praise which they bestow. In view of this, whereas we are much pleased with you that our name has been mentioned in that Society with honour and respect; and, as the joy of our heart required, these few lines have been written with our other letter; and we have despatched with it also a small piece of amber, in order that the Society may be perfumed with our kindness, and that the Members of the Society may become acquainted with the esteem which we entertain for them specially."

is wisdom. Those who are endowed with wisdom are

CAPTAIN GRINDLAY in the chair. Thomas
Joseph Pettigrew, Esq., Librarian to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, was admitted a
member. Captain Blake and several other
gentlemen were elected resident members.
General Count De Boigne, a distinguished
officer, formerly in the Mahratta service, and
now President of the Literary Society at
Chamberi, and W. B. Hodgson, Esq., American
Pro-Consul at Algiers, were elected foreign
members. A paper by the chairman was read: it Malayan and Javanese MSS. formed by her
Lady Raffles presented a fine collection of
contained his observations on the art of sculp- late distinguished husband, Sir Stamford Raf-
ture among the Hindus, and was in particular fles, during his government in the Indian
illustrative of certain drawings executed by archipelago: the collection is in excellent con-
himself of statues and groups in the cave tem-dition, and comprises works in all the branches
ples of Ellora, which are now publishing in the of Indian literature. Amongst them are Vo-
Society's Transactions. Another paper, from
the pen of the Rev. B. Schmidt, was read: the and Bugis; Malay, English, and Javanese;
cabularies and Dictionaries of the Sumenap
author commenced with a few observations Javanese and Sunda; Madurese; Macasar,
illustrative of the utility of the study of lan- and Bugis, and Bali languages: the whole
guages and dialects; he contended that dialects
formed by mountaineers bear a marked differ-embracing 120 vols. A number of well-pre-
ence to those in use in the plains; and conse- Mr. B. H. Hodgson, assistant to the East
served Bhotea MSS. were also presented by
quently where this distinction can be detected India Company's Resident in Nepaul. Other
and followed up, it will afford a clue to the donations were made by Colonel Harriot and
origin of certain tribes. On this principle the
author gave a rapid but rather interesting
Captain Low.
sketch of the connexion of languages, and then
returns to the Tamul, as the one more imme-
diately presented to him, and which he consi-
ders to be radically distinct from the Sanscrit,
and forming the unadulterated language of the
aborigines of India. From this circumstance,
and also on account of its containing genuine
works of high antiquity and excellence, the
author recommends it to the especial notice of
European linguists. The Secretary enume-
rated a splendid list of donations. Two letters
were read they were from Abbas Mirza,
Prince Royal of Persia, acknowledging the
receipt of his diploma as a member of the
Society, which was conveyed to H. R. H. by
Sir J. Malcolm, when that distinguished officer
proceeded to his government at Bombay, in
1827. The letters are written in an exceed
ingly beautiful character: as they are unique
specimens, we lay before our readers the fol-
lowing translations.

FINE ARTS.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Herne's Oak, Windsor Forest.
Drawn on
stone, and published, by W. A. Delamotte,
jun., R. M. College, Sandhurst. 1830.
A NEATLY executed little lithographic print,
from an original sketch taken in the year 1797;
well adapted to the antiquarian portfolio and
scrap-book.

The Young Artist's Assistant in the Art of Drawing in Water Colours. By Thomas Smith. London, 1830. Sherwood, Gilbert, IN the attainment of every kind of knowledge, and Piper. the great matter is to set out on the right path; and it is in this respect that judicious instruction is most beneficial. The career once commenced, the progress must almost wholly depend upon our own exertions; but it is evident that, unless those exertions are well To the nobles celebrated for wisdom and penetration, directed, they will be mischievous rather than and distinguished by understanding and knowledge, sitting in the assembly, endowed with science, and the advantageous. An old artist, to whom we lent ascenders of the ladder of knowledge-the Members of the the volume the title of which stands at the Royal Asiatic Society.

We exclusively give this information in a friendly way, that the letter written by them has been received The amber is enclosed in a box, or net-work, of gold, and perused with a friendly sight, and that their epistle, set with rubies, which is contained in a richly worked the record of science and wisdom, has been compre- purse of gold and silver thread; altogether presenting a hended, and afforded us gratification, because they are very favourable specimen of Persian taste.

I

The Sovereign Almanac, Anno 1830. A good portrait of the King, and a beautiful specimen of gold printing and ornament, in a fancy bor. der, render this extremely neat board, about twelve inches by eight (from the press of De la Rue, Cornish, and Rock), one of the prettiest things of the sort we have ever seen. It possesses, indeed, the elegance of enamel.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE LAST FIRE: A VISION OF STEAM."
[As I sat before the fire a few nights ago, reading in the
newspapers many alarming calculations concerning the
consumption of fuel by the multiplication of steam-
engines, I fell into a doze, when the following awful
and prophetic vision presented itself to my eyes. Im-
mediately on waking, it fell naturally, as it were, into
verse; and I think the subject too important to be
SLEPT; and, in a vision, to my eyes
withheld from public consideration.]
Nature's last tragedy appeared to rise.
Man's climbing mind had subtilised each art,
Sublimed the whole, and perfected each part.
Laws, arts, and arms, had undergone a change,
Not less magnificent because most strange.
Made horses bankrupts, and made bread to fall.
Steam, mighty Steam! had superseded all-
Steam-boats, steam-guns, steam-kitchens, and
steam-coaches,

To this perfection made the first approaches:
The future shewed me as I lay a-dreaming.
But this was nothing to the wondrous steaming
Vain in description to waste precious paper-
Suffice it, Europe was one cloud of vapour!
But, oh! alas! that vapour e'er should feel
The rotatory roll of Fortune's wheel!
Fuel grew dear! French forests fell like grass;
Tynemouth, Wall-end, and Kennel cried Alas!
Nor even could the Indian savage roam
Through ancient woods, his dim primeval home.
Long every shrub, and bush, and branch, and
tree,

Had heated boilers, and had ceased to be;
And men were forced to turn to uses vile
Full many a laboured, many a learned pile.
Sharing alike the universal doom,
Many a volume too, and many a tome,
Had proved a blessing where they proved a bore,
And blazed with fire they never knew before!
Those sacred works with wit and learning
Wondrous! with what avidity men brought
fraught,-

State records, parliamentary debates,

Polemic tracts, and essays upon states,

To light the fire which every parish vowed
To warm the noses of the coal-less crowd.
Romances next were hurled into the flame;
Next poets, playwriters, historians, came:
Last, Homer, Virgil, Milton, Shakespeare,

Scott,

With many a sigh were added to the lot :

We have to thank the popular Author of Darnley for this fanciful effusion, not unworthy of his talents.-Ed.

us:

But these the unwilling owners e'en confessed" A fire! A fire! A fire!" the beldam cried; | petition that existed between them, and tells
Burned longer, clearer, brighter than the rest." A fire! A fire!" the village all replied;
Next furniture was fetched-drawers, tables," A fire! A fire! A fire!" was echoed far
chairs,

Beds, stools, and every sort of wooden wares;
Till men were forced to seek the aid of stones
To bear their dinners and to rest their bones;
Till all was burnt. Then surly Winter rose,
And took blue wretches by the frozen nose;
And sad it was to see each chilly wight,
With hands in pockets and coat buttoned tight,
Run up and down the waste, uncovered earth,
Cursed with black cold, sad enemy to mirth;
Ard, as they ran, remorse their bosoms tore,
For joys they'd heedless cast away before.
Dandies and Russians, Dutchmen, bargemen,

tars,

Regretted wasted pipes and lost segars;
And patriot Catholics and Irish priests
Thought good wood wasted on heretic beasts,
Caused Smithfield fire-lighting a thriftless trade,
And bloody Mary but a spendthrift jade.
Vainly they ran! No cheering warmth they
found,

and wide.

Each babe took up the tale, each ancient sire,
Though deaf, and blind, and lame, repeated
"Fire!"
[same,
High, low, rich, poor, good, bad, all cold the
Loud shouted "Fire!" and kindled at the name.
First hamlets, villages, assumed the cry;
Through burghs and cities then the tidings fly;
All traced them back to where they first
began ;-
[they ran.
All bawled out "Fire!" and as they bawled
Now Fish, who selfishly had hoped alone
T' enjoy the fire that he himself had won,
Astonished sees the world around him swarm-
Millions on millions, eager to get warm.
On, on, they rushed, one on the other prest;
And still the crowd behind impelled the rest.
All nations, languages, heights, features, hues,
That the wide universe could then produce,
Running, and jostling, scrambling, tumbling,

came,

Jammed into marmalade around that flame.

"During the very long period of the protracted illness from which Mr. Owen never recovered, Sir Thomas's carriage was frequently to be seen standing at the door of his house in Bruton-street to a late hour of the night; it being the custom of the amiable President, whenever he dined in that neighbourhood, to pass the remainder of the evening with his afflicted friend; -and doubtless, on those occasions the elegant mind of the one, and the powerfully vigorous understanding of the other of these highly-gifted individuals, must have produced conversations of the most interesting description. Nor did his kindness rest here; for after the sad catastrophe which terminated the valuable life of Owen, the President, though living amongst the great ones of the earth, could still find an hour to soothe the sorrows of his widow, and talk over the future prospects of his son."

The last picture Sir T. Lawrence touched was on the day before his death. It was on the portrait of his present Majesty, intended for the Athenæum; and the last touch of his pencil was on the left sleeve, about three inches from the wrist (some scarlet drapery); and we are thus particular, on account of the remarkable fact that Sir Thomas's motto is "Loyal à la mort."

Sir Thomas did not die in his chair, as generally supposed, but on the floor of his painting Then Fish, indignant, cried with loud com- room, at the back of his house. His features mand,remained, till it became necessary to close the

And the dull sky upon their mis'ry frowned;
And when they entered in their doorless homes,
Twas stony coldness all, like empty tombs.
With frenzied energy they dug the ground,
Or dived the sea. Nor coal nor wood they"
found;

And many a wretch would lay him down to die,
And welcome Death without one anxious sigh;
No terrors found they in his icy stare-
They could not well be colder than they were.
still many raged and struggled for warm life,
And waged with cold and death unequal strife,
Dined on raw cabbages, devoured raw beef,
Gained indigestion, but gained no relief.
One man there was a waterman by trade,
Erst in green coat and plated badge arrayed;
Men called him Fish, and rightly him did call
For he could dive and swim, possessing all
The useful attributes of finny birth-
Finding the water warmer than the earth,
He spent his time in diving; and one day
Found in the river's bottom, where they lay
Hid from the danger of devouring flames,
The stakes that Cæsar drove into the Thames!
* Ho, ho!” cried he; "I've found a treasure
here

Shall warm me snugly till the rolling year
Brings jolly Summer." So with might and
main

He tagged them forth and bore them to the plain :

, now he'd got them, he had still to learn
That wood when wet is difficult to burn.
Quick-witted in himself, he well divined,
Taungh cold at heart, some warmth remained
behind;

And having ranged the timber with much art,
He sat and dried it with his broadest part.
A long, long week, seven weary nights and days,
Irving the expectant pile he careful stays.
Taas o'er her nest the mother eagle broods;
Or thus the phoenix of Arabian woods
t on his aromatic pile, whose fire,
Of new life redolent, shall soon aspire.
Aength 'twas dry! Now with an eager
band

A brandished boathook in his dauntless hand-coffin, calm and placid as in life.
Stand back, my masters! You may all be
dd!

The fire's my own, and I will not be bammed;
Or since the generous ardour fires your soul
To seek this genial flame, from either pole,
With me, its lord, possession to contend,
And squeeze me flat my right while I defend—
Thus I defy you, caitiffs all, and dare
The bold to follow, and my fate to share!"
Proudly he said, and sprang into the flame :
High o'er his head the fiery eddies came;
The crowd beheld, and, maddened with the
sight,
[light.
Rushed on the blaze, and perished in the
The fire was out; but still they onward
rushed :-

The far extremes the narrow centre pushed,
Squeezed, jammed, cast down, one
on the

other rose,
And many a mortal trod on his own nose.
Each in his eagerness his fellow mashed:
The sun went down-and all the world was
squashed!!!

BIOGRAPHY.

NOTICES ON SIR T. LAWRENCE.

As every thing that relates to Sir T. Lawrence
continues to attract-almost to engross-public
conversation, we proceed to redeem the promise
made in our last Gazette, and to add such far-
ther particulars of his life and character as have
come within our knowledge since our first no-
tices were sketched. But we are bound, in the
first instance, to perform an act of justice, by
inserting the subjoined paragraph, received
from the executor of the deceased, and sanc-
tioned by a very high and estimable noble-

man:

Sir Thomas Lawrence had painted, within the last two months, a magnificent portrait of himself. It is full-faced, and most highly finished, with the exception of the dress below the shoulders: he spoke of this as the best of his productions.*

Thus we

A crayon portrait of Sir Thomas, by himself, is in the possession of Dr. Bloxam, of Rugby. It is a strong likeness, notwithstanding the hair being worn according to the fashion of the time when it was executed. find there need be no want of likenesses to perpetuate, in that way, the memory of this great artist, whose pencil has transmitted so many other graceful and lovely forms to posterity.+

This picture, it is stated in the Bristol Gazette, was intended as a present to the Bristol Institution, in compliment to his native place. The following letter to a gentleman of this city, adds our contemporary, distinguished for his correct taste in the arts, will no doubt be acceptable to our readers. "Russell Square, April 23, 1826. "Sir, I beg the favour of you to convey to the gentlemen of the committee forming the arrangements for the present exhibition at Bristol, my sincere thanks for the great honour they have done me, in mentioning my name in the prefatory page of their catalogue in so generous and flattering a manner. To be thus distinguished by persons of high estimation in my native city, is one of the most pleasing rewards that my professional exertions could have gained. I beg them to be assured that it will always be my pride to retain their favourable opinion, and to shew my respectful sense of that liberality in my townsmen, which on more occasions than one has been so freely extended to me. I ought to apologise to you for a former silence. I must ask for peculiar indulgence from you on account of my numerous engagements, and, I fear, a repugnance to writing, which, as you have yourself experienced from me, even gratitude and respect can with difficulty subdue. I have the honour to be, &c.

"THOMAS LAWRENCE."

"To D. W. Acraman, Esq. &c. &c.”

The following is an extract of a letter from G. Morant, Esq. addressed to the same gentleman, and dated as recently as Dec. 22, 1829.

"I must now acquaint you, my dear sir, that I have "We feel ourselves called upon to say, that circum-seen Sir Thomas Lawrence. All I can learn from him is, stances stated to us, on the best authority, have con- that he is very anxious to present his portrait to your [brand-Sir Thomas Lawrence a connexion of the character men-kind expression in his favour, but pleads as an excuse vinced us that we were mistaken in imputing to the late respectable city, and feels honoured and flattered by the tioned in our paper of the 16th inst. We are assured for the non-fulfilment of his promise, and the gratificathat the lady in question, from the time of separation tion it would afford him-want of time to complete the from her husband, resided in the bosom of her own painting. When I look around his apartments, and see family, and that in her intercourse with Sir Thomas the immense number of pictures in an unfinished state, Lawrence there was nothing inconsistent with the strictest it appears to me that his life must be extended beyond morality and decorum." the period allotted to mortals in general, if the whole are accomplished."

To fits he seized and fired each rotten
Each raten brand a grateful ardour shewed,
Forth was the flame, and on the sky it glowed.
High rose the flame; too high, alas! for now
An ancient roman, on a mountain's brow,
Running same worsted through a needle's eye,
(What is it not old women will descry?)
Found out the fire for Fish that furtive flamed,
And forth with scream and shout the fact pro-
claimed.

In recalling amiable traits of the late Presi+ The portraits of Dr. Hancock, of Salisbury, and of his dent, we have a gratification in referring to a daughter, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, are not, as we stated letter from Major Owen, a brother of the dis- in our last, in the possession of a Mr. Hancock, but of a tinguished painter of that name, in which he gentleman who holds an official situation in London, and who married a grand-daughter of Dr. H. They are in speaks of the elevated and gentleman-like com-coloured chalk, in oval frames; on the back of each is

By an advertisement in our last page, it
appears that a Series of Lawrence's Portraits
is about to be engraved: it will, we under-
stand, receive aid from the highest quarters.
As an interesting appendage, however, we
have sketched the last resting-place of the Pre-
sident and of his most eminent predecessors.

By an oversight,-which the hurry insepar- The cast taken of Sir Thomas Lawrence's The application of many such lines to the able from such a publication as ours, when countenance by Chantrey, although there is not praiseworthy motives and brilliant success of subjects of immediate interest require our at the slightest distortion, conveys little or no Miss Kemble was exceedingly obvious to the tention, may, we trust, excuse, we omitted likeness. The intellectual face of Sir Thomas, audience, and acknowledged accordingly. Miss to name, in Lord de Tabley, one of the earliest which must be so fresh in every one's recollec- Kemble's Euphrasia is, in our opinion, suand most generous patrons of the late Presi- tion, is not in the cast at all apparent; and the perior even to her Juliet, and far out of sight dent, whose exquisite picture of Lady de Tabley features, taken without reference to the distin- of her Belvidera. Her forte evidently lies in in the character of Hope, was, and continues guished individual, would be pronounced large, the sterner walks of tragedy. A monotonous to be, equal to his finest productions. There and rather unmeaning. delivery impairs her expression of tenderness, was also, at Tabley House, an unfinished but With the details of the funeral, so well de- and her passion is at present too theatrical to most beautiful portrait of the lady of Sir God-scribed by the newspaper press, we shall not be truly affecting. The moment a lofty line frey Webster, which the taste of the noble detain our readers. It was very numerously or biting sarcasm rises to her lip, the fire of owner of that mansion had selected to adorn attended, there being forty-two mourning genius flashes uncontrollably forth; all tramhis collection. Another of our casual in- coaches (there were forty-four at the inter- mels of custom or tuition are cast aside; her advertencies, which our admiration of the ment of Sir J. Reynolds), and as many car- eye brightens; her figure dilates; she becomes, painter, and respect for the man, renders us riages of noblemen and gentlemen. in an instant, strikingly original, and beauanxious to repair, has been the singular omistifully true. Witness the withering coldness sion of the name of Howard among the list of of her replies to Paris when she meets him at those who might fairly aspire to the vacant the friar's cell, and her sudden estrangement from chair. Our readers who remember the opinions her nurse-the two most original points of her we have offered on the performances of this Juliet, and which have never been sufficiently imaginative and delightful artist, will acquit us admired; her "Shall I swear ?" and her of having wronged him by an apparent slight, reprobation of the conspirators, in Belvidera; otherwise than through sheer haste. Upon the and lastly, her interviews with Dionysius, in election itself we venture no judgment; but the Grecian Daughter. Hitherto, our readers we take shame to ourselves for forgetting Mr. may have remarked, we have done little more Howard in any enumeration of the highest orthan alluded to the success of Miss Kemble, naments of the Academy and the profession. in general terms, without entering into criticisms, or plunging into panegyric. Taken by storm, as it were, we felt it wiser to let the moment of excitement pass away ere we ventured to pronounce our opinion of her abilities; and we flatter ourselves that the belief we now profess in her great and peculiar powers, after deliberate and close examination, will be equally gratifying to the true friends of this gifted young lady, with the indiscriminate torrent of adulation poured so immediately forth by the mass of our contemporaries, and which was as likely to ruin as to encourage the object of its praise. One of the greatest charms of her performance is the perfect understanding she invariably evinces of her author. After the string of Misses it has been our mis-fortune to hear prating, like parrots, with equal nonchalance, the poetry of Shakespeare, and the turgid commonplaces of Murphy, it is delightful to listen to such an actress as Miss Kemble. Let her execution be ever so faulty, her conception is invariably true. Her defects are those of a

South Window.

Sir C. Wren.

Barry.

Sir Josh. Reynolds.

Opie.

Sir T. Lawrence.

The death of Sir T. Lawrence will distribute much employment among his survivors-some of whom, perhaps, had reason to complain of his undertaking so much as he did. It would require, we are informed, twenty years of labour, as constant and indefatigable as his own, to finish the portraits he has begun; and who are to finish them, is now a grand source of rivalry. No doubt almost all his academical brethren in the same line will be called upon; and there are other and rising men to whom it will probably open a road to fame. Mr. Simpson, who has been Sir Thomas's assistant for many years, and whose selection for that office is a sufficient proof of his abilities, if we need any other than the recollection of his own clever exhibitions at Somerset House, is likely to come in for his full share of this employment, for which his previous course renders him so fit. Mr. Rothwell, too, whose striking portraits we noticed in a recent Gazette, has a field more immediately splendid than ever, opened to his WE have not heard much of the ensuing opera school; her beauties are all her own. exertions by the removal of his great predeces-season, nor have any of the prima donnas

sor.

Sir Thomas lies under the arch, on the wall of which, over his grave, is a bust of Barry, at the spot marked

DRAMA.

ITALIAN OPERA.

A tend

Sir T. Lawrence behaved with much made their appearance. A letter from Venice ency to whine, and to extravagance of attitude, kindness to the Dublin Academy on its forma- gives us an interesting account of the début of are the principal errors which at present beset tion: and we receive back again with pleasure Mde. Caradori Allan, at the opening of the her; and we mention them without hesitation, its return in the person of so promising a young theatre of La Fenice, on the 26th of December, because she may divest herself of them in a painter. with an opera composed for the occasion by week, now, before they become habitual. She Of the brothers of Sir Thomas there does not Il Maestro Persiani. The company consisted has our best and heartiest wishes; and we seem to be any issue to continue the name of another prima, La Grisi, tenor Bomfigli, shall watch her progress to the throne vacated two of his sisters, however, have families, the bass Pellegrini, (not he of Paris and London,) by Mrs. Siddons with that affectionate care eldest, who died in 1813, leaving one daughter, and contralto Lorenzani, with the usual com- which points out the slightest pebble in her Miss Meredith, since married to Mr. John Al-plement of auxiliaries. Caradori was received path, not the inconsiderate zeal that would ston, of Birmingham; and Anne, the youngest, with great applause; and, after her cavatina, hurry her against even insurmountable imthe wife of Dr. Bloxam, of Rugby, the mother called forward on the stage to receive demonof eight or nine grown-up sons and daughters.strations of the favour and delight her silver We have now before us No. I. of a sweet tones had excited in the Venetians. collection of flowers, &c. from nature, by Mad. Melanie de Comelera. It contains four elegantly designed and brilliant specimens; and MURPHY's wretched tragedy, the Grecian we notice the publication here from having Daughter, has kept possession of the stage seen a highly complimentary and encouraging principally on account of the meagre state of letter addressed to the fair artist by Sir T. L. our tragic store, which, affording scarcely a so lately as New-Year's Day. It is one of a dozen tolerable female characters, obliges every thousand proofs of his good-will towards per- new actress to play five or six at least out of THE real drama of life is often as replete sons of talent and merit in every branch of the them, that nobody ever wishes to hear of with change as the fictions of the stage. What fine arts. again. It has, consequently, been revived for will be thought of the lady of a baronet, the Miss Kemble; an additional inducement, perhaps, being found in the circumstance of the interest of the piece hinging upon a father's preservation by a daughter:

the signature, T. Lawrence, 1774;" and on one, the artist has written, "Be pleased to keep this from the damp, and from the sun." They are in high preservation; no doubt owing to this prudent caution having been at tended to.

COVENT GARDEN.

"The father finds a parent in his child."

pediments. But we must have some new tragedies: our stock is exceedingly small. Miss O'Neil's success gave birth to two or three ephemerides: let us hope better fortune awaits Miss Kemble. Her person is scarcely mature enough for Lady Macbeth or Constance. Milman's Fazio might do for a few nights; but none upon our stage at present will run thirty, like Romeo and Juliet.

sister of a baronet who long represented the Irish capital in parliament, and one nearly connected with the peerage, making her appearance as Lady Macbeth, in order to provide for a numerous family, reduced to poverty by

墨

VARIETIES.

extensive speculations on steam-carriages ? | immense heap of bricks fastened together with
This we understand to be the fact: such a cement, as hard as rock, now alone indicate
debut must excite much interest.
the place where it stood. A mass more con-
siderable than the others is pointed out by the
Arabs as the vestiges of the Tower of Babel;
and there is no doubt that the researches made
amidst these ruins will offer to the world
both useful and curious discoveries. The
young missionary is about to go to Paris, and
from thence he will rejoin the bishop, who has
only this single Latin priest to aid him in his
painful duty.

The Deluge.-M. Cuvier, in one of the early lectures of the course which he is at present delivering at Paris on the Natural Sciences, remarked the astonishing conformity which existed in the traditions of various nations with respect to the period of the occurrence of the deluge. The Hebrew text of Genesis fixes it in the year 2349 B.C. The Indians make the fourth age of the world the age in which we are now living-commence in the year 3012. The Chinese place it about the year 2384. Confucius, in fact, represents the first king, Yao, employed in carrying off the waters of the ocean, which had reached the summits of the mountains, and in repairing the damage which they had caused.

Fossil Bones. Several fossil bones have been discovered in the cavern of Fauzan in France, which are said to belong to a species of bear surpassing in size the ursus spæleus of M. Cuvier; hitherto the largest species known, and much larger than any living species.

Scientific Honours.-The King of Denmark has honoured Mr. Troughton with a gold medal, as an acknowledgment of the eminent services he has rendered to astronomical and geographical science. His Majesty's head is on the one side: on the other, scientific emblems, and the motto “ Merito."

day next, contains the second volume of the Lives of
illustrations is a portrait of Fuseli, engraved from an
British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: among the
unpublished drawing of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence.
[Advertisement.]-On February 1st, to be continued
monthly, Price 2s. 6d. the First Number of Fraser's
Magazine for Town and Country. Contents: -"Our
Confession of Faith," by the Author of "White-
hall;"-American Poetry; the Philosophy of Catholi-
cism;-the Deluge, a Paraphrase from the German of
Gesner, by John A. Heraud, Esq.;-Jean Paul Friedrich
Richter's Review of Madame de Staël's " Allemagne ;"—
the Standard-Bearer, a Ballad from the Spanish;-Lines
stitutes; -Posthumous Renown; - a Legend of Mac-
from the Arabic;-Captain Basil Hall on Mechanics' In-
Alister More;-the Fallen Chief, from the Arabic;-on
Poetical Genius;-Architectural Design and Decoration;
-Hora Gallicæ, No. I., Elizabeth of England; the
Hurons, a Canadian Tale, by the Author of Sir Andrew
Wylie;"-West Indian Sketches, No. I., Adventure with
Published by James Fraser, 215, Regent Street, London;
a Pirate;-Mr. Robert Montgomery's "Satan;" &c. &c.
and John Boyd, Edinburgh.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

1.4s. bds.-Kelty's Times of Trial, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.--
Savage's History of Carhampton, 8vo. 18s.; royal 8vo.
Pinney's Code of Health, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.-Historical
Memoirs of Andrew Melville, 18mo. 48. bds.-Hinck's
Allen's Panorama of London, 16mo. 12s. sheep.-Pope's
Sermons, 12mo. 48. bds.-White's Mental Arithmetic,

Rudiments of Greek Grammar, 12mo. 3s. 6d. sheep.

12mo. 3s. 6d. sheep.-White's Tutor's Assistant, 12mo. 28. Copy-Book, 12mo. 18. 6d. sheep.-Porquet's French Spellsheep Key, 12mo. 4s. 6d. sheep.-Butler's Etymological ing, 12mo. 3s. 6d. sheep.-The Corsair's Bride, 3 vols. 12mo. 18s. bds.-Forrester, a Novel, 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. 78. bds.-Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Aves, 3 vols. 8vo. 5. 8s.; royal 8vo. 8. 2s. bds.-Caillie's Travels to Timbuctoo, 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 10. bds.-Laurie Todd, or the bds.-Alcock's Lectures on Practical and Medical SurSettlers in the Woods, by Galt, 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. 118. 6d. gery, 12mo. 108. 6d.; 8vo. coloured, 11. 1s. bds.-Long on the Art of Healing, 8vo. 58. bds.-Colman's Random Records, 2 vols. post 8vo. 17. 18. bds.

January.

.. 19

Thermometer.
From 17. to 30.

Barometer. 29.78 to 29.85

25.

35.

29.86

29.83

24.

30.

29.83

29.87

15.

Lithographic, &c. Transfers.-The following method of taking an engraving upon brass or in lithography, and putting it upon glass or The Mahor. The mahor, or wild cottonwood, is from the Journal des Connaissances tree, grows in Cuba to a vast size. There is Usuelles. The engraving which it is wished to one, on an estate called Santa-Anna, a huntransfer from the paper to glass, is to be placed dred feet high. Its trunk, which is forty-six in a vessel, warm water to be poured upon it, and a half in circumference at the base, rises and it be left to soak for half an hour. At to sixty-five feet, without a single branch or a the end of that time it must be withdrawn, and single knot on its white bark. The branches placed upon a white cloth, so that the water are worthy of the stem, and cover a diameter may drain from it. In the meantime, some of a hundred and sixty-five feet. This imVenice turpentine should be heated; and the mense tree is in itself a world, and shelters and METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. glass destined to receive the engraving having feeds millions of insects. Several parasitical also been warmed, the turpentine should be plants attach themselves to it. Wild pine- Thursday.. 14 spread upon it with a camel's-hair brush, care apples grow at the top, and the vine vegetates Friday 15 Saturday being taken not to put too much upon it. The on the boughs, and, letting its branches droop Sunday... 19 glass being thus prepared, the engraving is to to the earth, furnishes rats, mice, and the Monday 18 be put upon it, and it is to be pressed on all oppossum, which would find it difficult to Tuesday 26. 29.71 Wednesday 20 35. 28.79 sides, in order to make it hold. When this climb a smooth bark, a ladder, enabling them Winds N.E. and N.W., the former prevailing. has been done, and the turpentine has become to reach the pine-cups, which form so many Generally cloudy and frosty, snowing on the morning hardened, the glass is to be placed over a very natural reservoirs for the rain-water. The of the 15th and during the night of the 19th-the latter slow fire. The paper is again to be saturated wood-louse founds extensive republics in this fall of snow was more than usually heavy, the average depth being about six inches: the mizzling rain of the 15th with water, and is to be rubbed with the tree, and establishes its large and black cities and 16th, together with the evening's frost, was the cause fingers, in order to take out the folds. Great at the juncture of some of the branches, whence of several serious accidents. The extreme cold of the 18th, care must, however, be taken, in order to pre- it descends to the ground by a covered way, is deserving a remark,-and, in compliance with several when the thermometer was 27° below the freezing point, vent any lines of the engraving from being which it constructs of mortar, and of which it requests, a further account will be given. abliterated. When the first part of the opera- even provides two-one to ascend, and the on has been effected, the figure which is upon other to descend by. This little insect is of the glass should be washed with turpentine or the size of a flea, is inoffensive, and is a great ish, and should be covered with a thin treat to the inhabitants of the poultry-yard, to af of beaten gold, silver, or metal; and as whom it is given in its nest. the metal appears through the glass, the enpaving will seem as if it had been drawn on gid or silver. Figures transferred in this way may be painted of all colours; and the artifice may be hidden by rubbing the back of the new impression with a simple paste, or the white of an egg, and then covering it with any powder which may be thought proper.

Travels in the East. There is now at Lille a young French missionary attached to the Archbishop of Babylon, and who has just resarned from Bagdad. As he speaks the oriental languages with facility, he has had an opportity of observing with advantage the manners and customs of the different people with whom hsmanistry has brought him in connexion; and his accounts may be looked upon as faith. ful ones. He left Marseilles in 1820 with Bishop Coupperie; and, before arriving at his destination, crossed successively Egypt, Palestine, the deserts of Arabia, and ancient Chaldea, the cradle of the human race. He very minutely examined the site of ancient Babykin; and his descriptions of that celebrated metropolis of Asia accord perfectly with those of the most accredited English travellers. An

LITERARY NOVELTIES.

[Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. IV. Jan. 23d, 1830.]

PUBLISHING.

a

Number of days of rain and snow, 7. Quantity of rain and melted snow in inches and decimals, 0:33125.

Winds.-6 East-1 West-7 North-0 South-6 Northeast-6 South-east-1 South-west-4 North-west.

General Observations.-The barometer during the month

seven years, and the maximum higher than since Dec. 1827; the range only 98 hundredths of an inch: the month was also extremely cold, the mean being upwards of ten degrees below those of the last three years. Snow fell on quantity little more than three inches; the rain and the 18th, 19th, 21st, 23d, 24th, and 27th,-the whole melted snow only 0,33125 of an inch,-a quantity little more than an eighth of what fell in last December, which was much less than usual. The evaporation 0,03125 of an inch.

Our communications from various authors and publishers since our Advertisement of the 9th, enable us to notice, that Captain Glascock has ready the Tales of Tar, out of which MS. we have been permitted to read an account of the breeze at Spithead, with very authentic and interesting details of the mutiny which at that period threatened the stability of the British empire. Among was very high-the mean much above any one in the last our poets, Mr. Atherstone is nearly ready with his second volume of the Fall of Nineveh; and among our novelists, the author of the Collegians has already another work, entitled Tales of the Five Senses, on the anvil; also encouraged to bring out a new production. The and the successful author of Richelieu and Darnley is Jew, another novel, is announced by Mr. Bull, who has given us several very agreeable and clever books in this class. The miscellaneous publications forthcoming, in addition to what we have mentioned in former Literary Gazettes, are not very numerous. We observe that Bannister, the late attorney-general of New South Wales, is preparing an Inquiry into the best means of preventing the Destruction of the Aborigines, usually incident upon settling new Colonies. Mr. F. W. H. Bayley promises us Four Years' Residence in the West Indies; and Steamers versus Stages, a Poem, with designs by Cruikshank. Of a very opposite character is the Devotional Testament. Roby's Traditions of Lancashire (second notice) and containing Reflections and Meditations on the different other Reviews are again unavoidably deferred: the former Marks, Vicar of Great Missenden. The Tenth No. of his Rochdale estates gives a new interest to Mr. Roby's Paragraphs of the New Testament, by the Rev. Mr. we the more regret, as the reading about Byron's sale of the Family Library, which will be published on Thurs-subject.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.. If a "Lover of Meteorology" will refer to the Literary Gazette which contains the Summary for the year 1820, viz. an early Number of the year 1821, he will find the information he seeks.