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which had endured during a whole century; more than an Utopia, or nameless country. home to her or his own habitation. when Asmund, at last obtaining the victory, With the fairy popular creed fell, doubt- cusations of access to such acts of madness,' prostrated his enemy, and by driving, as he less, many subordinate articles of credulity in continues Monstrelet, several creditable perboasted, a stake through his body, had finally England; but the belief in witches kept its sons of the town of Arras were seized and reduced him to the state of quiet becoming a ground." imprisoned, along with some foolish women tenant of the tomb. Having chanted the tri- And horribly fruitful it was in cruelty, and persons of little consequence. These were umphant account of his contest and victory, crime, and murder; the dark chapter of which so horribly tortured, that some of them adthis mangled conqueror fell dead before them. is fearfully unfolded in several of the ensuing mitted the truth of the whole accusations, and The body of Assuoit was taken out of the letters. said, besides, that they had seen and recogtomb, burnt, and the ashes dispersed to heaven; "In the earlier period of the church of nised in their nocturnal assembly, many perwhilst that of the victor, now lifeless, and with- Rome, witchcraft is frequently alluded to, and sons of rank, prelates, seigneurs, and goverout a companion, was deposited there, so that a capital punishment assigned to those who nors of bailliages and cities, being such names it was hoped his slumbers might remain undis- were supposed to have accomplished by sor- as the examinators had suggested to the perturbed. The precautions taken against As-cery the death of others, or to have attempted, sons examined, while they constrained them sueit's reviving a second time, remind us of by false prophecies, or otherwise, under pre. by torture to impeach the persons to whom those adopted in the Greek islands, and in the text of consulting with the spiritual world, they belonged. Several of those who had been Turkish provinces, against the vampire. It to make innovation in the state; but no ge- thus informed against were arrested, thrown affords also a derivation of the ancient English neral denunciation against witchcraft itself, as into prison, and tortured for so long a time, law in case of suicide, when a stake was a league with the enemy of man, or desertion that they also were obliged to confess what driven through the body, originally to keep of the Deity, and a crime sui generis, ap- was charged against them. After this, those it secure in the tomb." pears to have been so acted upon, until the of mean condition were executed and inhuThe tracing of dwarfs and gnomes from the later period of the sixteenth century, when the manly burnt; while the richer and more northern people, Laps, Fins, &c. of small papal system had attained its highest pitch of powerful of the accused ransomed themselves stature, and industrious miners and smelters power and of corruption. The influence of the by sums of money, to avoid the punishment of metals, who sought refuge in caves from churchmen was, in early times, secure; and and the shame attending it. Many even of the conquering advances of the Asæ, is excel- they rather endeavoured, by the fabrication of those also confessed being persuaded to take lently done; and Satan, with his tail and false miracles, to prolong the blind veneration that course by the interrogators, who promised cloven feet, is as well derived from Pan, or of the people, than to vex others, and weary them indemnity for life and fortune. Some some master satyr of classic celebrity. Nor are themselves by secret investigations into dubi- there were, of a truth, who suffered with the fairy histories less prolific, or less inter-ous and mystical trespasses, in which, probably, marvellous patience and constancy the toresting in our author's magic picture. Sir the higher and better instructed members of ments inflicted on them, and would confess Walter pays a merited compliment to the the clerical order put as little faith at that nothing imputed to their charge; but they, previous exploits of Mr. Crofton Croker in time as they do now. Did there remain a too, had to give large sums to the judges, this field, richer in fancy than that of the mineral fountain, respected for the cures which who exacted that such of them as, notwithCloth of Gold; and in concluding, bids a very it had wrought, a huge oak tree, or venerated standing their mishandling, were still able to poetical farewell to the once good neigh-mount, which beauty of situation had recom- move, should banish themselves from that part bours," in which we join him with all our mended to traditional respect; the fathers of of the country.' Monstrelet winds up this soul; for we well remember having seen some the Roman church were in policy reluctant to shocking narrative by informing us, that it of the last of them ourselves, on the very spot abandon such impressive spots, or to represent ought not to be concealed, that the whole he so beautifully describes at page 119, when them as exclusively the rendezvous of witches, accusation was a stratagem of wicked men we were many years younger than he was on or of evil spirits. On the contrary, by assign- for their own covetous purposes, and in order, his visit to Glammis Castle. We extract the ing the virtues of the spring, or the beauty of by these false accusations and forced confesthe tree, to the guardianship of some saint, sions, to destroy the life, fame, and fortune "We are then to take leave of this fasci- they acquired, as it were, for the defence of of wealthy persons." nating article of the popular creed, having in their own doctrine, a frontier fortress which it so much of interest to the imagination, that they wrested from the enemy, and which it we almost envy the credulity of those who, in was at least needless to dismantle, if it could be the gentle moonlight of a summer night in conveniently garrisoned and defended. Thus, England, amid the tangled glades of a deep the church secured possession of many beautiful forest, or the turfy swell of her romantic com- pieces of scenery, as Mr. Whitefield is said to mons, could fancy they saw the fairies tracing have grudged to the devil the monopoly of all their sportive ring. But it is in vain to regret the fine tunes.

Vale.

66

Thus was the superstition of the multitude then, like the ignorance of the many at all times, made the cover for religious persecution and civil oppression. The last of the witches put to death in Great Britain was little more than a century ago.

"In the year 1722, a sheriff-depute of Sutherland, Captain David Ross of Littledean, illusions which, however engaging, must of A remarkable passage in Monstrelet puts in a took it upon him, in flagrant violation of the necessity yield their place before the increase clear view the point aimed at by the Catholics then established rules of jurisdiction, to proof knowledge, like shadows at the advance of in thus confusing and blending the doctrines nounce the last sentence of death for witchcraft morn. These superstitions have already served of heresy and the practice of witchcraft; and which was ever passed in Scotland. The victheir best and most useful purpose, having how a meeting of inoffensive Protestants could tim was an insane old woman belonging to the been embalmed in the poetry of Milton nd be cunningly identified with a Sabbath of hags parish of Loth, who had so little idea of her of Shakspeare, as well as writers only inferior and fiends. In this year (1459), in the town situation, as to rejoice at the sight of the fire to these great names. Of Spenser we must of Arras, and county of Artois, arose, through which was destined to consume her. She had say nothing, because in his Fairy Queen, the a terrible and melancholy chance, an opinion a daughter lame both of hands and feet, a cirtitle is the only circumstance which connects called, I know not why, the religion of Vau- cumstance attributed to the witch's having his splendid allegory with the popular super- doisie. This sect consisted, it is said, of cer- been used to transform her into a pony, and stition; and, as he uses it, means nothing tain persons, both men and women, who, under get her shod by the devil. It does not appear cloud of night, by the power of the devil, re- that any punishment was inflicted for this cruel These oppressed, yet dreaded fugitives, obtained, paired to some solitary spot, amid woods and abuse of the law on the person of a creature naturally enough, the character of the German spirits deserts, where the devil appeared before them so helpless; but the son of the lame da ughter, called Kobold, from which the English Goblin and the in a human form, save that his visage is never he himself distinguished by the same misforScottish Bogle, by some inversion and alteration of pronunciation, are evidently derived. The Kobolds were a perfectly visible to them; read to the assembly tune, was living so lately as to receive the species of gnomes, who haunted the dark and solitary a book of his ordinances, informing them how charity of the present Marchioness of Stafford, places, and were often seen in the mines, where they he would be obeyed; distributed a very little Countess of Sutherland in her own right, to times took pleasure in frustrating their objects, and ren- money, and a plentiful meal, which was con- whom the poor of her extensive county are as dering their toil unfruitful. Sometimes they were malig- cluded by a scene of general profligacy; after well known as those of the higher order. Since also they were indulgent to individuals whom they took which, each one of the party was conveyed this deplorable action, there has been no judiunder their protection. When. a miner, therefore, hit cial interference in Scotland on account of upon a rich vein of ore, the inference commonly was, not In these, ample use is made of Pitcairn's Collection witchcraft, unless to prevent explosions of pothat he possessed more skill, industry, or even luck, of Criminal Trials in Scotland (Edin. 4to.), of which the than his fellow-workmen, but that the spirits of the Sixth Part, now lying upon our table, reproaches us pular enmity against people suspected of such mine had directed him to the treasure. The employ with the neglect of itself and precursors; but, deserving a crime, of which some instances could be proment and apparent occupation of these subterranean of every encouragement as the publication is, we have duced. The remains of the superstition somegnomes, or fiends, led very naturally to identify the Fin, only once found an opportunity of noticing its high times occur; there can be no doubt that the claims upon public favour.

seemed to imitate the labours of the miners, and some

nant, especially if neglected or insulted; but sometimes

or Laplander, with the Kobold."

vulgar are still addicted to the custom of scor- that my friend Mr. William Clerk, on a jour- | duty, especially if a sail was to be handed, on ing above the breath,* (as it is termed), and ney to London, found himself in company, in which occasion the spectre was sure to be out other counter-spells, evincing that the belief in the mail-coach, with a seafaring man of middle upon the yard before any of the crew. The witchcraft is only asleep, and might in remote age and respectable appearance, who an-narrator had seen this apparition himself recorners be again awakened to deeds of blood.nounced himself as master of a vessel in the peatedly-he believed the captain saw it also, An instance or two may be quoted, chiefly as Baltic trade, and a sufferer by the embargo. but he took no notice of it for some time, and facts known to the author himself. In a re- In the course of the desultory conversation which the crew, terrified at the violent temper of the mote part of the Highlands, an ignorant and ma- takes place on such occasions, the seaman ob- man, dared not call his attention to it. Thus, lignant woman seems really to have meditated served, in compliance with a common supersti- they held on their course homeward, with the destruction of her neighbour's property, tion, 'I wish we may have good luck on our jour-great fear and anxiety. At length the captain by placing in a cowhouse, or byre, as we call ney-there is a magpie.' And why should invited the mate, who was now in a sort of it, a pot of baked clay, containing locks of that be unlucky?' said my friend. I cannot favour, to go down to the cabin and take a hair, parings of nails, and other trumpery. tell you that,' replied the sailor; but all the glass of grog with him. In this interview, he This precious spell was discovered, the design world agrees that one magpie bodes bad luck- assumed a very grave and anxious aspect. I conjectured, and the witch would have been two are not so bad, but three are the devil. I need not tell you, Jack,' he said, what sort torn to pieces, had not a high-spirited and never saw three magpies but twice, and once of hand we have got on board with us - He excellent lady in the neighbourhood gathered I had near lost my vessel, and the second I fell told me he would never leave me, and he has some of her people (though these were not very from a horse, and was hurt.' This conversa- kept his word — You only see him now and fond of the service), and by main force taken tion led Mr. Clerk to observe, that he supposed then, but he is always by my side, and never the unfortunate creature out of the hands of he believed also in ghosts, since he credited such out of my sight. At this very moment I see the populace. The formidable spell is now in auguries. And if I do,' said the sailor, I him- I am determined to bear it no longer, my possession. About two years since, as they may have my own reasons for doing so ;' and and I have resolved to leave you.' The mate were taking down the walls of a building he spoke this in a deep and serious manner, replied, that his leaving the vessel while out formerly used as a feeding-house for cattle, in implying that he felt deeply what he was say- of the sight of any land was impossible. He the town of Dalkeith, there was found below ing. On being further urged, he confessed, advised, that if the captain apprehended any the threshold-stone, the withered heart of some that if he could believe his own eyes, there bad consequences from what had happened, he animal stuck full of many scores of pins;-a was one ghost at least which he had seen re- should run for the west of France or Ireland, counter-charm, according to tradition, against peatedly. He then told his story as I now and there go ashore, and leave him, the mate, the operations of witchcraft on the cattle which relate it. Our mariner had, in his youth, gone to carry the vessel into Liverpool. The capare kept within. Among the almost innumer-mate of a slave vessel from Liverpool, of which tain only shook his head gloomily, and reiterated able droves of bullocks which come down every town he seemed to be a native. The captain his determination to leave the ship. At this year from the Highlands for the south, there of the vessel was a man of a variable temper, moment, the mate was called to the deck for is scarce one but has a curious knot upon his sometimes kind and courteous to his men, but some purpose or other, and the instant he got tail, which is also a precaution, lest an evil subject to fits of humour, dislike, and passion, up the companion-ladder, he heard a splash in eye, or an evil spell, may do the animal harm." during which he was very violent, tyrannical, the water, and looking over the ship's side, The last letter is upon astrology and ghosts; and cruel. He took a particular dislike at one saw that the captain had thrown himself into but we have so far exceeded our bounds, that we sailor aboard, an elderly man, called Bill the sea from the quarter-gallery, and was runmust allow neither star nor phantom to mislead Jones, or some such name. He seldom spoke ning astern at the rate of six knots an hour. us much farther. Sir Walter explains away to this person without threats and abuse, When just about to sink, he seemed to make many a well-authenticated (false) fact: the fol-which the old man, with the license which a last exertion, sprung half out of the water, lowing, though said to be in print, is new to us. sailors take in merchant vessels, was very apt and clasped his hands towards the mate, call"The remarkable circumstance of Thomas, to return. On one occasion, Bill Jones ap-ing, By the second Lord Lyttelton, prophesying his peared slow in getting out on the yard to hand a own death within a few minutes, upon the in-sail. The captain, according to custom, abused formation of an apparition, has been always the seaman as a lubberly rascal, who got fat by quoted as a true story. But of late it has been leaving his duty to other people. The man said and published, that the unfortunate noble- made a saucy answer, almost amounting to man had previously determined to take poison, mutiny; on which, in a towering passion, the and of course had it in his own power to ascer-captain ran down to his cabin, and returned tain the execution of the prediction. It was with a blunderbuss loaded with slugs, with no doubt singular that a man, who meditated which he took deliberate aim at the supposed his exit from the world, should have chosen to mutineer, fired, and mortally wounded him. play such a trick on his friends. But it is The man was handed down from the yard, still more credible that a whimsical man and stretched on the deck, evidently dying. should do so wild a thing, than that a messen-He fixed his eyes on the captain, and said, ger should be sent from the dead, to tell a Sir, you have done for me; but I will never libertine at what precise hour he should ex- leave you.' The captain, in return, swore at pire. him for a fat lubber, and said he would have "The following story," continues the author him thrown into the slave-kettle, where they on the same point, "was narrated to me by made food for the negroes, and see how much of their Illustrations, which are very droll, my friend Mr. William Clerk, chief clerk to the fat he had got. The man died; his body was The volume so ornamented is quite the thing very characteristic, and very cleverly executed. Jury Court, Edinburgh, when he first learned actually thrown into the slave-kettle; and the it, now nearly thirty years ago, from a pas-narrator observed, with a naïveté which consenger in the mail coach. With Mr. Clerk's firmed the extent of his own belief in the truth consent, I gave the story at that time to poor of what he told, "There was not much fat Mat Lewis, who published it with a ghost- about him after all.' The captain told the ballad which he adjusted on the same theme. crew they must keep absolute silence on the From the minuteness of the original detail, subject of what had passed; and as the mate! however, the narrative is better calculated for was not willing to give an explicit and absolute A CHEAP and ample account of the remarkprose than verse; and more especially, as the promise, he ordered him to be confined below. able revolution which has given a new, and, if friend to whom it was originally communi- After a day or two, he came to the mate, and well-directed, a glorious aspect to the political cated, is one of the most accurate, intelligent, demanded, if he had an intention to deliver state not only of France but of Europe. It is and acute persons whom I have known in the him up for trial when the vessel got home. chronologically arranged, de die in diem, and course of my life, I am willing to preserve the The mate, who was tired of close confinement in seems to be as fairly compiled as the materials precise story in this place. It was about the that sultry climate, spoke his commander fair, allowed. No doubt many of the circumstances eventful year 1800, when the Emperor Paul and obtained his liberty. When he mingled are invented, distorted, and misrepresented; laid his ill-judged embargo on British trade, among the crew once more, he found them im- but still they are the most authentic that could pressed with the idea, not unnatural in their be got at; though we have also to recollect, situation, that the ghost of the dead man ap- that the more important the influence of the peared among them when they had a spell of periodical press has become, (and it is indeed

«Drawing blood, that is, by two cuts in the form of a

cross on the witch's forehead, confided in all throughout Scotland as the most powerful counter-charm."

Bill is with me now!' and then sunk, to be seen no more." And here must be our "no more" also. The mystic web of our review is finished; and we have only to repeat, that a more interesting volume for all ages, and a more proper volume for the correction of idle phantasies in the young, could not have been written.

Tales of other Days. By J. Y. A. With
Illustrations by George Cruikshank; en-
graved by J. Thompson and S. and T. Wil-
liams. pp. 250. London, 1830. Effingham
Wilson.
THESE tales having already " appeared before
the public," and received their due meed of
critical commendation, we have only to speak

for a pass-time.

Full Annals of the Revolution in France, in 1830. By William Hone: illustrated with Engravings. 8vo. pp. 128. Double columns. London, 1830. Tegg.

JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES.

ARTS AND SCIENCES. THE SLAVE TRADE: LANDER'S EXPEDITION, &c. &c.*

P.S. Our ship's company have been very healthy yet.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR OCTOBER.

This is not, indeed, an an engine of prodigious power), the more likely | ministering a poisonous draught prepared from graphical situation of this river, I am fully is it to be systematically employed to promote a decoction of the bark of a tree which they persuaded that it is here the mysterious Niger the purposes of party, rather than to disseminate call groo; and in order to make it appear that terminates its course. the truth. In what he has done, Mr. Hone their proceedings are sanctioned by Divine au- original idea; for I find that Mr. Richards and thority, they pretend that the potion will have some others have entertained the same opinion. appears to have used a sound discretion. no bad effect, unless the person who drinks it is But it is unnecessary to say any thing further The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome deemed by the Supreme Power deserving of on the subject at present, as an attempt is again exhibited in an Account of her Damnatory death. It is easy to see through the villany of about to be made to decide this question by Catalogues or Indexes, both prohibitory and this ordeal; for those who are not doomed to actual observation. The traveller Lander and expurgatory; with various illustrative Ex-destruction have a harmless mixture prepared his brother were landed by his majesty's brig tracts, Anecdotes, and Remarks. By the for them, whilst they who have the misfortune Clinker, about three months ago, at Badagry, Rev. J. Mendham, M.A. Second edition. of being considered wiser than their neighbours whence they were to proceed into the in8vo. pp. 371. London, 1830. James Duncan. are certain of being poisoned. The dread of terior. They had (as all travellers ought to THIS volume contains a vast mass of literary being subjected to these doubtful trials checks, have) sanguine hopes of success-they relied research; and though directed to a particular of course, any tendency to improvement. The particularly on the good-will of the natives, theological subject, abounds in curious anec- chiefs themselves, however, are so well aware who are now becoming perfectly sensible of the dotes, applicable to points of general literature of the advantages of education, that many of advantages to be derived from cultivating a for about three centuries. The author is a those along the coast learn both to read and good understanding with the English, by whom Tory and High Churchman; and his book is write; and several of them have adopted En- their wants are chiefly supplied. His majesty's dedicated to Sir Robert Inglis, the Protestant glish names, as, for instance, Tom Wilson, brig Plumper touched at Badagry about ten Member for Oxford University: it may there- King of Cape Palmas; Jem Lawson, King of days ago, on purpose to learn if any thing had fore be supposed that it is an exposure of the Popo; and Duke Ephraim, Sovereign of Cala- been heard of the travellers since their deparago, and nothing has Church of Rome in its interference with the bar. This latter chief deserves to be particu-ture; but no information could be obtained Of his hand-set off "three moons" propagation of free opinions, and with a strong larly mentioned on account of his acquirements respecting them. The natives said that they and superior understanding. leaning to the doctrines of the Reformation. writing I have seen some specimens that would been heard of them since. Should any thing do credit to any penman; and as a proof of his transpire respecting them, or any other subject enlightened views, he has sent two of his child-that I think will be interesting to you, be ren, a son and a daughter, to Martinique to be assured that I shall not fail to acquaint you educated: the latter was taking her passage with it. H. M. S. Atholl, West Coast of Africa, July 14, 1830 there in a slave ship, which we detained for a NOTWITHSTANDING all our endeavours to short time, until it was ascertained that it was French property, when it was allowed to The young princess suppress the slave-trade, it is still carried on with unabated vigour. It is estimated, that of proceed on the voyage. Lunar Phases and Conjunctions. the vessels employed in this unnatural com- appeared to be about ten years of age; she 23d 10h 7m the Sun enters Scorpio. merce, not above one in ten are taken. The lived with the slave girls, and the only way average number of slaves liberated in the course in which her rank could be distinguished from of a year, by our squadron on this coast, is that of her degraded companions, was by the about six thousand; consequently, upwards of quantity of parti-coloured glass beads with fifty thousand are carried annually into slavery. which she was loaded; they formed a kind of Of that number, I understand that twenty-six girdle round her loins, and, from hanging thousand were landed last year in the Brazils, loosely in front, they answered the double pur. the remainder being taken to the Havannah pose of use and ornament-for she wore no Our clothing. Before we saw her she was decoand the French West India Islands. treaty with France respecting the slave-trade rated also with massy silver armlets and Occultations in the Hyades.-5a is certainly very inefficient for the purpose of anklets, which from their weight chafed her suppressing this abominable traffic; for no wrists and ankles so much, that the master of vessel under French colours, and having the the vessel humanely cut them off. It is, in-will pass over several stars in this small but necessary documents to shew that she belongs deed, highly ridiculous to see the barbarous conspicuous constellation, the most remarkable to a subject of that nation, is allowed to be profusion of gold and silver ornaments with of which will be y Tauri, and, under some molested, although laden with slaves. Thus, which the African ladies deck themselves, circumstances, Aldebaran. The first of these we have met several of them with hundreds of whilst, with respect to dress, they may be said stars (y Tauri) will immerge behind the Moon's these poor creatures on board, and yet we were to be almost in a state of nudity; and, not-northern limb at 10h 16m, and emerge at not authorised to release them. It is, perhaps, withstanding the ignorance of these people of 10h 52m. The conjunction with Aldebaran some consolation to know, that a great part of the unfortunate wretches who are sold as slaves have been in the same condition in their own country; so that their case is not quite so It is astonishing how little the people on this grievous as it would at first appear-being in fact only a transfer from one task-master to coast know respecting the interior of the country; another; and it is to be hoped that in some for I have made various inquiries at the different cases at least the change may be for the better. places at which we have touched, with a view No condition can indeed be more degrading of gaining information about the course and than that in which the lower classes are kept termination of the celebrated river Niger; and in this country. Their extreme ignorance all that I have been able to learn is, that a may, in a great measure, be attributed to the great river, which comes from the central parts barbarous policy of their chiefs and priests (if of Africa, divides into several branches as it I may so designate a set of cunning impostors), approaches the coast, and falls into the sea in who, with a view of maintaining their own the Bights of Benin and Biafra. It is well authority, consider it necessary to prevent the known, indeed, that this part of the coast is diffusion of knowledge, by strictly forbidding composed of a number of islands or deltas, every person within their jurisdiction from formed by the rivers Calabar, Bonny, and Belearning either to read or write, on pain of nin, &c., which, notwithstanding their magnideath, which punishment they inflict by ad-tude, are only branches of one mighty stream which, like the Egyptian Nile, discharges its waters by several channels.

the arts of civilised life, it is surprising to see
the neatness of their workmanship in the pre-
cious metals: as a specimen of it, I send you a
small gold ring that I got made at Accra.*

Judging, therefore, from the size and geo-
The ring is of very pure gold, twisted or plaited, and

The letter from which the subjoined is copied has just reached us from our valued friend Mr. Fisher, the surgeon of the Atholl, now broiling on the coast of Africa after freezing in the Polar Expeditions, of which he published so interesting a narrative. Coming from a gentleman of such extensive travel and great acquirements, we certainly is very creditable to African ingenuity.-Ed. beg to point the attention of our readers to its statements. L. G.

O Full Moon in Pisces....
Last Quarter in Gemini
New Moon in Virgo......

2. H. M.

1 19 57

8 10 32

.. 16 7 31

First Quarter in Capricornus.. 24 10 20
31 5 18
Full Moon in Cetus....

The Moon will be in conjunction with

Saturn in Leo
Venus in Virgo

Jupiter in Sagittarius
Mars in Pisces..

D. H. M. 11 19 30 Occultation. 22 21 15

28 3 15

the Moon

will be very interesting: to Greenwich, the star, at 19h, will be seen to glide close to the concealed; to places a few miles south, the Moon's northern limb, but not for an instant star will be occulted. The following will be its appearance, as seen from Greenwich:—

Vertex.

Venus, the
Occultation of Venus.14d
The commencement of the occultation will
morning star, will be eclipsed by the Moon.

Imm

Vertex.

12d 12h 45m-Mercury in his inferior conjunction. 20d 21h-in conjunction with Venus; difference of latitude 27'. 21d. tionary. 28d-greatest elongation (18° 37') as a morning star.

-sta

FINE ARTS.

GRAND NAVAL GALLERY AT GREENWICH.

With respect to some of the other plates,
we must repeat what we have said on former
occasions, that they are over-wrought, and
His Majesty has been graciously pleased to
are consequently black and heavy. If only
give a number of the Royal Pictures of the half as much had been done to them, they
naval heroes of Great Britain, to add to the would have been twice as good.
noble collection already at Greenwich Hos-
pital. Besides this, we are delighted to learn
that a gallery is to be constructed for their An Invalid Carriage; invented by G. Morton.
reception; and we shall thus have a truly
Engelmann and Co.

national assemblage, of a kind peculiarly grate- As far as we can judge from the print, this
ful to English feeling, in the place of all invention, the object of which is to convey
others the most appropriate for ch an Exhi- patients to and from hospitals, &c. with as
bition. Lord Farnborough, the enlightened little pain, inconvenience, or delay as possible,
patron of the fine arts, has been to Greenwich, is well calculated to effect its purpose.
to consider of the necessary arrangements;
and Mr. Locker, one of the Commissioners of
that Institution, and Mr. Seguir, the Keeper
of the King's pictures, have also been con-
sulted in the progress of this most laudable
undertaking.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

minds us of Lawrence.

Napoleon musing at St. Helena. Engraved by J. C. Coombs, from a picture by B. R. Haydon. Published by the Artist. THERE is great simplicity in this little print; nay, there is great sublimity in it; and the manner in which it is treated affords an addiHer Highness the Princess Victoria. Engraved tional proof of Mr. Haydon's genius. It reby R. Golding, from a picture by W. Fowler. presents Buonaparte, standing, just after sunM. Colnaghi. set, on the verge of a cliff, which overhangs the A VERY successful portrait. The general dis-ocean; his arms folded, and his gaze intensely position of the figure is graceful; the features fixed upon the scarcely visible white sails of a are well defined; and there is great vivacity in vessel in the distant horizon. The execution, the expression. The treatment of the hair re- as a work of art, is remarkably good; but it is surpassed by the sentiment. On looking at it, the train of thought that is swiftly passing the imagination instantly attempts to conceive through the mind of the extraordinary being before us, as he is reviewing the almost miraculous events of his meteor-like career. It is THE Novels here illustrated are, "Waverley," impossible not to fancy him,-now, full of The Asteroids.4d Juno 24 east of a Ca-Guy Mannering," "The Antiquary," "Rob pleasure at the recollection of the innocence pricorni. Pallas 1° S. W. of 47 Serpentis. Ceres 2° W. of 3 Scorpii. 9a Vesta in op- Lothian," Roy,' "Old Mortality,' ," "The Heart of Mid of his youthful days; now, of exultation at the ," "The Bride of Lammermoor," and brilliant military triumphs of his more adposition, 4° N. of 44 Ceti: right ascension A Legend of Montrose:" and the Illustra-vanced life; now, of remorse at the crimes by 1h 14m; south declination 5°. Although this tions are thirty in number; being four to each which he endeavoured to consolidate his coasteroid has a disc so small as to elude a satis-novel, with the exception of "A Legend of lossal and despotic power; now, of grief and factory measurement, it shines with an intense Montrose," which has but two. In such a despair at the rapid succession of reverses, the and pure white light: when the sky is clear, publication, however great the efforts which fruits of his own insatiable ambition, which it may be seen with the naked eye as a star of the sixth magnitude; it is free from nebu-may be made, there must necessarily be some terminated in rendering him a prisoner on a losity, and similar in appearance to Uranus. inequality in point of merit; as, in a race, it The elements and other phenomena of Vesta

12d-Venus in conjunction with Virginis; difference of latitude 7'. 23d-in conjunction with 9 Virginis; difference of latitude 18'. Mars continues a conspicuous evening star. 19d-stationary.

are as follow:

Sidereal revolution
Synodical revolution

Longitude of ascending node
Inclination of the orbit
Place of perihelion

D. H. M. 6.

1335 17 50 4

503 0 00 3 signs 13° 13' 18"-2 7 8 46

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8

9 33 24

10° 13′ 22′′

Eccentricity of the orbit.... 0-09322, or 20,000,000 miles.
Greatest equation of the centre
Apparent diameter
Real diameter..

0-488 ....238 miles. Mean distance from the Sun.. 2.373, or 225,435,000 miles. 2d 11h 15m-Jupiter in quadrature. 10d 21h -in conjunction with Sagittarii. 29d 10h. with Sagittarii. The following will be the only visible eclipse of the satellites :

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We will keep our eyes on the winning post, is impossible that every horse can be foremost. and not on the distance chair. The plates with which we are the most pleased, and which are indeed exceedingly beautiful, are, "Flora, in the glen of Glennaquoich, singing to Waverley," from a picture by F. P. Stephanoff, en- Baroness Ribblesdale. Painted by Mrs. Cargraved by R. Graves; "Davie Gellatley, with penter; engraved by Scriven. Ban and Buscar, at the Dern-path," from a THE portrait of a pretty-looking creature, and picture by E. Landseer, A.R.A., engraved by the seventieth of the Series of Female Nobility W. Raddon ; "The Baron of Bradwardine which adorns La Belle Assemblée. reading the Church Service to his Soldiers," from a picture by G. S. Newton, A.R.A., engraved by C. Rolls; "Death of Gilbert Glossin," from a picture by A. Cooper, R.A., en"Saunders Mucklegraved by J. C. Edwards; backit lamenting the death of his son Steenie,' Saturn is escaping from the solar rays, and from a picture by C. Stanfield, engraved by will soon afford eligible opportunities for ex-J. Phelps; "Davie Mailsetter run away with amining its singular apparatus of rings, belts, by his pony on the road to Fairport," from a and satellites. picture by A. Cooper, R.A., engraved by A. 30d 0h 45m-Uranus in quadrature. Warren; "Bailie Nicol Jarvie discovering Solar Spots.-Sept. 20 (Monday morning)- Rob Roy in Glasgow Jail," from a picture by a cluster of spots is passing off the western W. Kidd, engraved by S. Davenport; "Mabel limb of the Sun; three spots, arranged in the Rickets relating to Frank Osbaldiston the form of a triangle, are near the centre; others Scottish Legends," from a picture by A. E. are entering on the eastern edge, both macula Chalon, R.A., engraved by H. C. Shenton; and faculæ, which may be observed this day" Bothwell entering the house of Milnwood, (Saturday) near the middle of the disc. in search of Balfour of Burley," from a picDeptford. ture by D. Wilkie, R. A., engraved by R. Graves; and "Lucy Ashton saved from the Bull by the Master of Ravenswood," from a picture by E. Landseer, A.R.A., engraved by W. Finden.

J. T. B.

When Caractacus was taken as a prisoner to Rome, on
entering the city and seeing the splendour around him,
he exclaimed, What! could the Romans, with all this
magnificence, envy me my little cottage in Britain?"-
English History.

SAY, wherefore have ye borne me here,
And kept me thus with shield and spear,
Away from mine own pleasant land,

And with this armed band?

I have no treasures to unfold,

No glittering hoard of gems and gold,
No royal robes to yield;