woman, Aurelio's time also arrives. His more the impositions connected with them wings shoot-the

.... glittering pinions spread
A wider circuit round his head.
Amid their many colored dyes,
I saw two snowy plumes arise.
Oh! thou pale emblem of despair,
Why shine so exquisitely fair?

Aurello saw its whiteness gleam
Reflected from the glassy stream,
And felt that from her bed of clay
His sister spirit on that day
Would rise to claim such depth of love
As Moonlanders alone can prove.

There by the liberal hand of Heaven
Is high prophetic impulse given;
Led by this strong, unerring power,
Joyful he seeks the hallowed bower.

The crumbling clay—I saw it heave,
Saw the wan form her precincts leave;
An aged sorceress thus might crawl
To prophecy a nation's fall,

Caducity and dire decay,

Seemed to have marked her for their prey;
She, with sunk eye and panting breath,
Appeared to wait the stroke of death.

I looked with eyes of sense alone,
And deemed Aurelio still my own.
Was this a rival to be feared,
Whose dull deformity appeared
Like a terrific lesson given

are laid on.

besides which there are several chalybeate springs. The summer is recommended as In the pamphlet before us, Dr. Neale pro- the fittest time for drinking the waters, which duces some arguments against the indiscri- should be taken early in the morning. The seaminate use of mineral waters, so very cogent, son is from May to the end of November. that we are inclined to think they will ope- The theatre is a spacious and commodious rate in the same manner as the tax at Odep-building in Cambray Mead. The Assembly sun, and cause a few of these springs to dis- Rooms are situated in the principal street, appear. In sober sadness, it is both an ex- and in the ground floor of the same building traordinary and lamentable thing, that they auctions take place every day in the height should have grown to the pitch of fashion at of the season. The principal charitable inwhich they now are:-gushing out every stitutions are the Free-school, the School of where, and applied to with avidity for every Industry, and the Hospital. There are hot ailment, without analysis to ascertain their baths, numerous boarding-houses, several qualities-without information whether they circulating libraries, and many excellent are salubrious or dangerous for any particu-hotels." lar complaint, and generally, without pre- Crowded threatres, assembly rooms, aucference, on account of fitness, if it so hap- tions, hotels for the delicate, debilitated, and pen that they are convenient for resort, for sick! But we are not doctors, and therecompany, amusement, cards, intrigue, or fore leave off hinting at prescriptions, to dissipation. "I am very ill," says an inva- quote Dr. Neale. He says that, reflecting lid, “and intend going to drink the waters, on the abuse of watering places in respect to at Bath, or Cheltenham, or Buxton, or Har- real invalids, and "applying myself to conrowgate, or Clifton, or somewhere else," sider the effects of purgative mineral waters just as if it were no matter whether he swal-in certain cases, I have thought it might be lowed sulphur, or iron, or magnesia, or salt, useful to the public to call their attention to or soda, or lime, carbon or hydrogen, acid a point, whereon much of the safety or danor alkali ;-and just as if it were no matter ger attending their use may occasionally whether he was afflicted with gout or dropsy, hinge: being satisfied myself that those waconsumption or rheumatism, itch or asthma, ters which contain an excessive quantity of sea plethora or atrophy. To draw attention to salt cannot be used with advantage, I would such imprudences, the author has written say hardly with safety, by a particular class this able little essay; and it will not be one of debilitated invalids. The presence or abof its least beneficial effects, if it destroys sence of iron has seemed to be hitherto the the reputation of a good many quack nos- criterion upon which medical men have fixed trums of the kind against which it is directed. their reasoning, as to judging of the stimulatBefore, however, going to the point at is- ing powers of mineral waters; but I am now sue, we shall pave the way by quoting the well assured that they have been in error; short account of Cheltenham, from one of and that, as in the mineral waters of Chelthe most compact and useful publications of tenham, for instance, the giving of six-tenths its class with which we are acquainted. of a grain of iron daily, or even more, cannot Speaking of Cheltenham, it saysbe half so important as the taking, or not taking, one dram or more of common sea salt, on a fasting stomach, in a pint of water, for weeks together. In cases of incipient schirrus, it has been well proved and established that iron is beneficial: whereas the application of sea salt, to the irritable villous coats of the stomach and small intestines, will, we know, aggravate the complaint. For this reason, I have judged it of some importance to call the attention of my medical brethren to the comparative analysis of the two principal spa waters of Cheltenham; and I will add, that if the object is to pour brine into the circulation, let us rather send our patients to the sea shore, than to an inWhen the enerals of Antigonus, we read "The Well Walk is an elegant gravelled land mineral water-but if the intention be in ancient history, observed that a number of promenade, about 600 feet in length, and to stimulate the peristaltic motion of the invaletudinarians crowded to a medicinal spring 20 feet in breadth, bordered on each side by testines, let that particular water be advised at Odepsum which cured them of their dis- a quickset hedge. The spa, or long room, which contains the greatest proportion of alorders, they imposed a tax upon every one was erected in 1775, for the accommoda-kaline sulphates, and the smallest of muriate who used the waters; but so prodigious tion of persons taking the waters. It is about of soda; and for that reason rather let our were the effects of taxation in those days, 60 feet long and 20 broad. The Montpel- patients drink the original spa water of Chelthat the spring immediately disappeared. lier waters are procured at a large, and ele tenham than that of Harrowgate, because Modern fountains are infinitely more stub-gant pump-room, lately erected by Mr. the first contains the smallest quantity, and born: the heavy loads of taxation which they Thompson. During the season, a harper the latter the largest quantity of sea salt, and their visitors bear are almost incredible; attends in the morning at this room. known to exist in any mineral water in this and we may observe, that though the purses island. of the latter are, in consequence, frequently dried up, no such miracle happens to the wells, which, on the contrary, seem to multiply and spout with greater abundance, the

To mark the power of angry Heaven ? While those seducing hopes arise, Joy sparkles in Aurelio's eyes. For through that hideous veil of clay He saw the soul's translucent ray; He saw the angelic mind alone, Where innocence and sweetness shone; He knew how soon the dancing hours Would bring their all improving powers, Adding to softness, love, and truth, Bright beauty--and immortal youth. This of course terminated the mixed amour, and poor Laura awakes out of her delirium. The fancy, and poetical beauty of the work, however, merited a better fate than to have the press made its grave; and we are happy to give it this partial resur-accident.

rection.

CHELTENHAM WATERS.

A Letter to a Professor of Medicine, &c. respecting the Nature and Properties of the Mineral Waters at Cheltenham. By Adam Neale, M. D. &c. &c. London, pp. 40.

"The spring, or spa, as it is called by way of distinction, was first noticed to possess medical properties in the year 1716. The discovery appears to have arisen from

The effects produced by this spring have proved an increasing source of wealth to the town; and its visitors have been so numerous, that it was feared the waters would be insufficient to supply the demand; which would certainly have been the case, but for the discovery of some new springs equally congenial to health as the former. The amusements of Cheltenham are similar to those of most other places of public resort.

"The other wells at Cheltenhain are Sherborne, King's, Orchard, and Essex Wells,

* Leigh's New Picture of England and Wales, London, 1920.

"Another point, to which I would call public notice, is the custom which has crept in of late, of transferring mineral waters to cisterns, instead of drawing them fresh from

"One word more. In looking into Brande's Chemistry, in the table of the analyses › of mineral waters, I observe that he has admitted only three of the mineral waters of Cheltenham, namely, the Sulphur Spring, the pure Saline, and the Chalybeate; and, as he omits all notice of the others, I shall be glad to know if the public are to conclude, that he disbelieves in the existence of the other three. Certain it is also, that he takes no notice of that spring which was analyzed by Dr. Fothergill, which is, in my mind, of more value and moment than all the rest; and I should be glad to know why he has passed that in total silence. I shall just add, that I have the authority of one of the proprietors here to assure my readers, that the soil around Cheltenham only produces three mineral waters.”

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the wells, and delivering them in their natu- | observe, that the Montpelier spring differs | ton; which accomplished, you must next ral state. Surely, if we expect any benefit most materially from the original well. The endeavour to procure a constant supply of to be derived from the gases which they con- quantity of aperient salts, or alkaline sul- the pure element from some rapid torrent tain, we must relinquish all hopes of retain-phates, which it holds being not one half of or deep well-be it mineral water or noting them, after having been so treated; and what is kept in solution by the old spa, while for that is of little moment; you must then I, for one, beg to enter this my public pro- the proportion of muriate of soda, or com-fill a few quart bottles with your spa waters test against racking off mineral waters into mon sea salt, is forty times greater! But and salt them to your taste, as Mrs. Glasse cisterns, to suit the sole convenience of their the muriate of soda does not act on the would say, but of various strengths rememproprietors. If, however, the impregnation, howels. To produce the same effect, there-ber; and having duly sealed them up, send or non-impregnation, of gases be a matter of fore, it is necessary to take at least double them to the chemist of the greatest repute in indifference, then be it understood that we the quantity of the water of the Montpelier your part of the world to be analyzed. These ought not to advise our patients to undertake spring; while in doing so the drinker must, bottles you had better number one, two, long and expensive journeys to mineral of necessity, at the same time, swallow eighty three, four, five, and six, ad libitum; but, I springs, since we can furnish them with di- times as much common salt!! Therefore, should suppose, you need hardly extend it lute solutions of neutral salts, as Sancho the stimulating or heating quality of these to the Pythagorean number. Your analysis Panza has it, dry shod, and in our own two springs may be stated as nearly eighty having been returned, duly signed, sealcountry.' to one; while it should not be forgotten that ed, and delivered, you must next look the stomach must be twice as much distend-out for some complaisant Editor of a Monthed, before the aperient effect can be pro-ly Journal, Philosophical, Literary, or Mediduced by the new spa water." cal, to insert these Analytical Essays, with An analsyis of all the other Montpelier some enticing preface; as, for instance, springs, shows that, except No. 5, they con- We congratulate the public on the great tain a redundancy of sea salt. The author discovery lately made on the lands of Mr. then contends, that the muriate of soda in Macd—~e, of a rich variety of Mineral excess is dangerous to the patients usually Waters, whereby those who repair to the sent to Cheltenham, namely, either peofountains of Benbibere, may henceforth be ple who have resided a long time in warm accommodated with all sorts of waters, saclimates, and whose livers and chylopoetic line, aperient, chalybeate, or sulphuric, acviscera have been injured by the influence of cording to their several fancies and necessifevers and tropical heats; or such as have ties. A spacious pump room, of the form never travelled out of Great Britain, but and dimensions of a Greek temple, must whose abdominal organs have suffered from next be built; beneath the flooring of which excessive stimulation, from various causes. you must excavate several tanks, which are Common sense would lead us to acquiesce in to be filled every night, by means of leaden this conclusion; for it is assuredly most im- pipes, laid under ground all the way from proper, when the stomach and intestines are your well or fountain head, where you brew weakened, and possessed of a highly accu- the mineral waters. And, lastly, to prevent mulated sensibility, to allow the use of mine- the prying curiosity of your visitors, you ral waters containing the sulphate of soda. must not neglect to build a sort of pigeon In such cases the original spa, (if correctly house, or Martello tower, over your founstated in the analysis) should undoubtedly tain head, large enough to contain a stout be taken. We do not, however, agree so forcing pump, and a large trough for your "The original spa contains, then, in one entirely with the author, when he states, that Glauber and Epsom salts, a few barrels of pint of water, sixty-nine and three-tenth 95 persons out of 100 take the pure saline No. which you can stow there for use upon all grains of salts or solid contents, while No. 14; and adds, "Seeing that this water contains occasions. This Martello tower you must of the Montpelier spa contains seventy-four neither gas nor iron, shall we not be war-place at some distance in the rear, and let a grains. But we will place them in parallel ranted in drawing this inference, that all lawn, or hedge, or paling, intervene; clap a columns, for the sake of more accurate these people might have been equally bene- cannon on the top of it, to repel invaders; comparison. fitted by drinking a solution of Glauber and or, if you are afraid of using powder and Epsom salts at home, provided they had con- shot against the king's lieges, thatch it well fidence and patience enough to persevere at top, to conceal its importance, and stick steadily in such a course for a fortnight or upon it a board, painted to this effect, three weeks, and rise every morning and walk for an hour or two before breakfast ?"

The author now proceeds to account for the failure of the waters in many recent cases, which he mainly attributes to the fashionable run upon the new wells in preference to the old spa, from which they widely differ, and to which they are far inferior. He tells us

Original Spa Water.
One Pint.

Grains.

Sulphate of Soda

Soda

Montpelier Spa.
No. 1.
One Pint.

Sulph. of Soda
22,7
Sulph. of Mag-
nesia..... 6,0

6 Soda and Iron 2
Carbonates..
6 Muriate of Soda
5,0 Sulphate of Lime

3,1

69,3

Grains.

Gaseous Contents.

2,87

Take notice, that this is no thoroughfare, but a private road only, to Hoarhall farm and whoever trespasses on this ground shall be prosecuted according to law."

Now surely leaving home, exercise, change of air, and losing sight of business, are nearly 99-100ths of the causes of the celebrity of "All around your pump room you must 1,3 our watering places; and it would be as ad- lay out plantations and walks, with shady vantageous for the people of Cheltenham, trees and flowering shrubs, and, having proLeamington, and Gloucester, to go to Scot-cured a band of pipers and fiddlers with bass land, as for the people north of the Tweed to visit England in search of health.

41,3
2,5

The correspondence of Dr. N. to his friend is a satirical exposition of the mode by which 74,0 mineral springs may be made productive to their proprietors. The management which the doctor recommends his friend to imitate from the English, is thus described.

Cubic Inches. 3,7 Carbonic Acid.... 2,5

1,8

"Know then, my good friend, that your first business must be to procure a few tons of Glauber and Epsom salts from the nearest manufactory, where they will cost you at From the above tables, then, you will the rate of about fourteen pounds sterling per

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drums, &c. to titillate the auditory nerves of your visitors, while your waters are stirring up their great and small intestines, you may throw open the doors of your pump room to all hypochondriacs and true believers, who will assuredly flock by hundreds and tens of hundreds, to the new spas of Benbibere, to seek the Goddess of Health, a statue of whom, for the sake of classical allusion, you had better place over your pump room, with a Latin inotto beneath, from one of the old poets, as for instance, Utilis alvo fluit utilisque crumene; or, in plain English, I

hope this will be as good for your bowels, | an amusing and important nature. To clownish associates. I was invited into their as it will be to my purse.' gratify such, we proceed to offer a few house, where I rested till the carriage came The Doctor assures his friend, that he extracts, and beg to refer our agricultu- up. It was a catholic family, and some of must accumulate a magnificent fortune if he the pictures upon religious subjects, exhifollows this advice; but as that is no busi-ral friends particularly to the publica-bited genuine Dutch drollery. One piece

tion itself.

ness of ours, we have only to add, that under
a jocose style, there is much worthy of con- While in Holland, Mr. Jacob notices the
sideration in this pamphlet, which the drink-precision of the natives in a way which offers
ers of spa waters will do well to study. a good example for our imitation:-

We are of opinion, with Dr. Neale, that
The Dutch (he says) are as punctual as
the waters containing the muriate of soda they are industrious and parsimonious. The
have often done much mischief. And his diligences and treckschuyts start at the time
character and abilities as a physician in-appointed, during the striking of the clock.
dace ns to believe, that the practices of If you are told that the hour is seven, you
careless adulteration of these waters are in may be sure to be away before the fourth of
existence;
and he therefore merits the thanks the seven strokes has sounded. The pre-
of invalids, and of society, by their exposure. such that you may depend upon it within a
cision at which the hour of arrival is fixed, is
very few minutes; and the same reliance
may be placed on the period of finishing the
journey, whether it be made by water or
by land."

A View of the Agriculture, Manufactures,
Statistics, and State of Society, of Ger-
many, and parts of Holland and France.
Taken during a Journey through those
Another peculiarity deserves consideration,
Countries in 1819. By William Jacob, at a period when discussions on the Roman
Esq. F. R. S. London, 1820. Quar-Parliament. At Utrecht, the author states
Catholic religion are about to take place in
to, pp. 454.

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"There are twenty-four churches in this city, which belong to the Catholics, Calvinand Moravians. The inhabitants, according ists, Lutherans, Anabaptists, Mennonites, to an annual census, are now about 34,000; the catholics a little exceed in number the whole of the protestant sects; but they are for the most part of the lower orders of the people. I heard here, as I had done in the other cities, that the catholics are generally preferred as domestic servants, both by the different sects of protestants, and those of their own faith. The reason assigned for this, is, that if the catholics purloin any thing, when they go to confession, the priest will insist on their making restitution, before he will administer absolution; and the knowledge of this is thought to act as a restraint on the disposition to pilfer."

represented the seven sacraments of their church. Under the head of confession, a priest was represented sitting in the box with his ear close to the listening hole, at which a beautiful female figure in a kneeling posture was whispering. The devil was standing behind her, with a chain in his hand that encircled her waist, and appeared to be exerting all his strength to draw her from confession, or perhaps from the penance the priest was enjoining. Another part repreing a naked boy into a font filled with water; sented baptisin, where the priest was plungand the Holy Ghost was descending in a beam of light, whose termination rested on the breast of the child."

We have so recently had our attention occupied with Westphalia, and Hanover, that we shall pass over these divisions in Mr. Jafairly called for, as a poise to the last but one cob's book; but the subjoined extract seems which precedes it.

"Part of the time I spent in Osnabrück, A sound, practical, and useful work, was to be expected from a traveller of president of the Lutheran consistory. He I passed with a venerable clergyman, the Ir. Jacob's known abilities: nor will complained that the catholics had of late this volume disappoint these expectabeen very successful in making converts, estions. The author's remarks on the pecially among the poorer class of his hearcountries through which he passed, afers. Knowing that the catholic bishop of ford equal evidence of his assiduity and this city, as well as of Munster, had been capacity; and, especially on subjects praised for their liberality by our English Bible Society, of which my revered friend connected with agriculture, we conceive was a member, I turned the conversation tothat the information he has produced wards the prelate, of whom he spoke in will be eminently beneficial, both to very high terms. He told me, however, ourselves and to the continent. On that when any of the catholics asked a Bible manufactures the statements are not so from their bishop, he would say to them, minute; on statistics they are not so "The Old Testament is a difficult bookoriginal; and on society they are not you cannot understand it-it will be of no so novel: but even on these topics, use to you-here is a New Testament-that Near Deutchem, the last city in Holland you may understand, and it will be quite they are valuable, accurate, and acute; on the Anholt frontier, we have the follow-sufficient for you." so that, taken altogether, readers willing anecdotes. The state of Brunswick has been greatly neet with a very interesting account of "Whilst my post-horses were taking their improved, its public debt lightened, and its much that is worthy to be known of bait of bread at a small wirthshouse, by the resources increased, during that period of its Holland, Westphalia, Hanover, Bruns-road side, I walked on a considerable dis- sovereign's minority which has elapsed; and wick, Prussia, Saxony, and several of tance; where in a barn, were two men and it is gratifying to learn, that it promises to the minor German provinces. a woman employed in threshing and clean- be in a still higher condition by the time the ing buck-wheat. The flail they used appear-prince, so interesting to the British people, A very sensible and intelligent Eng-ed to me of a peculiarly clumsy construc-attains the age for assuming the ruling powlish gentlemen, unwarped by party tion; and after some slight conversation, I er. His people are warmly inclined towards prejudices, and telling us plain facts ra- examined the implement, and made a few Britain. The author says ther than building up vain theories, is strokes with it on the haulm, to try its ef At almost every house I entered, I was an exceedingly agreeable, as well as an fect. The woman immediately ran to me, pleased to see the pictures of their late Duke, exceedingly instructive travelling comtook a wisp of straw, and wiped both my of the Duke of Wellington, and of Blucher; panion; and we have seldom arrived at shoes, then threw her arms round and kissed and many articles of their furniture were my cheeks, and cried, a forfeit." the end of a quarto, going over ground paying a forfeit for meddling with impleThe adorned with gilded busts of the same heroes." not new nor unknown to us, with a feel-ments, was not new; but the shoe cleaning ing of less fatigue than on this occasion. and kissing puzzled me, though I have since A regular analysis of a work so copi- heard that the former part of the ceremony ons would far exceed our limits, and is still practised on such an occasion, in would indeed be a waste of labour; for some parts of Kent. I was, however, too those most concerned in the topics dis- gallant, not to give a trifling present, with the assurance that it was only the mark of war. cussed will not be content with an abridgement, and the general reader will be better pleased with examples of

Throughout the other provinces of Germany, Mr. Jacob found the warmest friendship for the English generally prevalent; and a strong feeling of gratitude, the result of the subscription from this country, which was judiciously appropriated, and did much to relieve the miseries entailed by a ferocious

tem (the model for farming in these dominions) from which we shall next week quote | some portion; preferring, for this Number, the shorter account of the Saxon princess, who is probably destined to make no slight figure in the affairs of a country, now the object of much speculation.

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We cannot omit an anecdote of Goethe, which the author picked up at Jena.

nonsense of others. How can they hope to make us understand a Plato or an Aristotle, in cases wherein it is quite evident that neither of these philosophers understood themselves. The Head of a certain College at Oxford was asked by a stranger, what was the motto of the arins of that university? He told him that it was Dominus illuminatio mea." But he also candidly informed the stranger, that, in his private opinion, a motto more appropriate might be found in these words" Aristoteles meæ tenebræ.?”

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

dages to a throne; and were not objected to, because they were known before the formal proposals were made. The principal conditions are, that she is to visit a theatre but twice in a year, and then accompanied by the King-that if she wishes to ride out, or to walk even in the garden, she inust give The young Queen of Spain is said, by those twelve hours' notice in writing of her intenwho have been as intimate with her as court tions; and that no attendants from her own etiquette would allow, to possess most un-country must accompany her to Madrid, but bounded ambition, and to have such a com- must leave her at the first town after her manding spirit as to have obtained, at her passing the Spanish frontiers. This last conearly age, almost the sole power over the dition has been literally complied with, and Royal Family. When her elder sister was her Saxon attendants have all returned to deinanded in marriage by an Austrian Arch- Dresden." duke, she declared she would never marry It is better to have recourse to a quack, if but to a kingly throne. When the ambassahe can cure our disorder, although he candor of Spain, the object of whose mission was “A minor poet had addressed some verses not explain it, than to a physician, if he can known, was first introduced to the family, to one of the reigning family, which cou-explain our disease, but cannot cure it. In the elder sister, who was attached to the tained soine most exaggerated compliments. a certain consultation of physicians in this prince she has since married, in order to In criticising the production, the old poet kingdom, they all differed about the nature Avoid the honour of Ferdinand's hand, dis-remarked, that "there was too much sugar of an intermittent, and all of them were figured, by her mode of dress, a person not in the composition; that princes were pleas-ready to define the disorder. The patient unpleasing. The younger, Josepha, did noted at sugar-plums being given to them, but was a king; at length an empiric, who had need much persuasion to induce her to accept did not like being pelted with sugar-loaves." been called in, thus interposed: Gentlemen, the proffered crown, nor did she practise any The following remarkable natural pheno-you all seem to differ about the nature of an hesitation when the formal proposal was made. menon is mentioned, as occurring in Saxe-intermittent, permit me to explain it; an "She is said to be an extremely pious, or Gotha. "The quantity of vermin of the mouse intermittent, gentlemen, is a disorder which what some call a bigotted, catholic, observ- tribe, has increased of late to a degree al- I can cure, and which you cannot. ing all the injunctions of that church with most incredible. The local magistrates give Histrionic talent is not so rare a gift as most scrupulous exactness. She is distin- rewards for their destruction. In the year some imagine, it is both over-rated and overguished by an undeviating sincerity in all her 1818, more than 200,000 field mice were paid. That the requisites for a first rate expressions, by the most rigid adherence to brought to them for the premiums. In the actor, demand a combination not easily to truth, and the punctual observation of all Raths-kammer of the city of Gotha, be- be found, is an erroneous assumption, asher engagements. She had studied the Span- tween the niuth of May and the ninth cribable, perhaps, to the following causes; ish language, and at an early period of her of September, 1817, the number for which The market for this kind of talent must alengagement with Ferdinand, had begun to the rewards were paid, reached to 89,565. ways be understocked, because very few of correspond with him. It was suggested that The regularity with which the accounts are those who are really qualified to gain theaher letters had better be corrected by some kept in these local treasuries leave no roomtrical fame, will condescend to start for it. person who was an adept in that tongue; to doubt of the authenticity of this fact, but she repelled the suggestion with great which is both novel and extraordinary." scorn, declaring that it would be practising a deception on the King, which she would ne

ver use.

(To be concluded in our next.)

LACON.

To succeed, the candidate must be a gentleman by nature, and a scholar by education; there are many who can justly boast of this union, but out of that many, how few are there that would seek or desire theatrical ce

The following quotations from Laconlebrity. The metropolitan theatro, therewere obliged to be omitted in our last Number, from want of room: we now insert them in justice to the author.

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"After the formal marriage, she appeared much flattered by the Spanish minister addressing her on his knee; though it is said, when he first placed himself in that posture before her, she was alarmed by the apprehension that he was about to commu- A man who knows the world, will not only nicate some disastrous intelligence from Spain. nake the most of every thing he does know, The picture of Ferdinand, superbly set with but of many things he does not know; and diamonds, was presented to her, with which will gain more credit by his adroit mode of she was much pleased, as he was certainly a hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his fine looking man. It was afterwards known, awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. In and by soine person communicated to her, Scotland, the " jus et norma loquendi'' has that the picture was painted for, and pre-made it the fashion to pronounce the law sented to his first wife; that after her death, term curator curător. Lord Mansfield gravely the same present was sent to Brazil for his corrected a certain Scotch barrister when in late Queen; and now for the third time, Court, reprehending what appeared to Engpresented to the Saxon Princess as the re-lish usage a false quantity, by repeating-qualifications for an actor, also feel that they semblance of one, who must have passed a curator, Sir, if you please. The barrister longer period than she has lived, since it was immediately replied, I am happy to be corpainted for him. Whatever chagrin the dis-rected by so great anorator as your Lordship. covery might have occasioned, the prospect of a crown seemed to have healed the wound and allayed the feeling.

"The conditions to which this young princess was called to subinit, in conformity to the etiquette of the Spanish court, were such as would have been deemed harsh by most persons, but are said to have been easily acquiesced in when they were appen

fore, can only be recruited from the best afford, and this is a market, abundant as to samples which the provincial theatres will quantity, but extremely deficient as to quality. Johnson told Garrick that he and his profession were mutually indebted to cach other: your profession," said the doctor, has made you rich, and you have made your profession respectable." Such men as Smith, Garrick, Kemble, and Young, might do honour to any profession, and would, perhaps, have succeeded in any; but their attempting success in this department is much more extraordinary than their attaining it; for, in general, those who possess the necessary deserve to be something better, aud this feeling dictates a more respectable arena. Neither is the title to talent bestowed by the Commentating lore makes a mighty parade, suffrages of a metropolitan audience, always and builds a lofty pile of erudition, raised up unequivocal. Such an audience is, indeed, like the pyramids, only to embalm some a tribunal from which an actor has no apmouldering mummy of antiquity, utterly un-pcal; but there are many causes which conworthy of so laborious and costly a mode of spire to warp and to bias its judgment; and preservation. With very few exceptions, it often happens that it is more difficult to commentators would have been much better please a country audience, than a London employed in cultivating some sense for them-one. In a country theatre, there is nothing selves, than in attempting to explain the to bribe our decisions; the principal actor is

THE HIMALA MOUNTAINS.

(Account concluded from Fraser's Journal.) The extracts in our last Number left the traveller at Gungotree, the centre of the Himala steeps, and the sacred source of the Bhagirutte Ganges: his

narrative thus continues :

for his own dwelling, that none should find him out. Both Bhagiruttee and Alacknunda are there said to have sprung from the head of Maha Deo. Twelve holy Brahmins, denominated the Twelve Reekhee, left Lunka in search of Maha Deo, and penetrated to Bhyraghattee, where the J,hannevie meets the Bhagiruttee, but could not find him. Eleven of them in despair went to Cashmere, but the twelfth, named Jum-Reekhee, remained at Bhyramghattee, sitting on a huge rock in the course of the stream of the Bhagiruttee, which, instead of flowing on as usual, was absorbed into the belly of the Reekhee and lost, while the J,hannevie flowed on. The goddess of the stream (Bhagiruttee) herself was at Gungotree worshiping Maha Deo, and making her prostrations on the stone on which now the temple is founded. When she felt that the course of the stream was stopped, she went in wrath to Bhyramghattee, clove the Jum Reckhee in two, and gave a free passage to the river. One half of the Reekhee she flung to the westward, and it became the mountain of Bunderpouch. From his thigh sprung the Jumna, and from his skull arose the hot springs mentioned when treating of Jumnot tree. Thus far the extravagancies of the

badly supported, and must depend solely on himself. In a London theatre, the blaze of light and beauty, the splendour of the scenery, the skill of the orchestra, are all adscititious attractions, acting as avant couriers for the performer, and predisposing us to be pleased. Add to this, that the extended magnificence of a metropolitan stage defends the actor from that microscopic scrutiny to which he must submit in the country. We This mountain, which is considered to be should also remember, that at times it re- the loftiest and greatest of the snowy range quires more courage to praise than to cen- in this quarter, and probably yields to none sure, and the metropolitan actor will always in the whole Himalaya, obtains the name of have this advantage over the provincial, if Roodroo Himala, and is held to be the we are pleased, our taste is flattered in the throne or residence of Mahadeo himself. It one instead, but suspected in the other. is also indiscriminately called Pauch Purbut, Intrigues of state, like games of whist, from its five peaks; and Soomeroo Purbut, require a partner, and in both, success is the which is not to be confounded with the joint effect of chance and of skill; but the mountain so called near Bunderpouch; and former, differ from the latter, in one parti- sometimes the general appellation of Kylas cular the knaves rule the kings. Count is given, which literally signifies any snowy Stackelberg was sent on a particular embassy hill, but is applied to this mountain by way by Catharine of Russia, into Poland; on the of preeminence. It has five principal peaks, same occasion, Thurgut was dispatched by called Roodroo Himala, Burrumpooree, Bisthe Emperor of Germany. Both these am- senpooree, Oodgurree Kanta, and Soorga bassadors were strangers to each other. Rounee. These form a sort of semi-circular When the morning appointed for an audience hollow of very considerable extent, filled arrived, Thurgut was ushered into a magni- with eternal snow, from the gradual dissoluficent saloon, where, seeing a dignified look- tion of the lower parts of which the princiing man scated and attended by several Polish pal part of the stream is generated: proba-shasters; and still they show the large rock noblemen, who were standing most respect-bly there may be smaller hollows beyond fully before him, the German ambassador the point to the right above Gungotree, · (Thurgut) concluded it was the king, and addressed him as such, with the accustomed: formalities. This dignified looking character turned out to be Stackelberg, who received the unexpected homage with pride and si- The old popular idea that the Ganges islence. Soon after the king entered the pre- sued from a rock like a cow's mouth (Gae sence chamber, and Thurgut, perceiving his Mouk,h), did not fail to occur to me. This mistake, retired, much mortified and ashamn-idea is extremely prevalent, and it is difficult ed. In the evening, it so happened, that to account in a satisfactory manner for its both these ambassadors were playing cards universality, for it is not authorized by the at the same table with his majesty. The German envoy threw down a card, saying, "The king of clubs !!" "A mistake!" said the monarch, "It is the knave!" "Pardon me, Sire," exclaimed Thurgut, casting a significant glance at Stackelberg, “this is the second time to-day, I have mistaken a knave for a king!!!" Stackelberg, thoughvery prompt at repartee,bit his lips,and was silent. Levity is often less foolish, and gravity Jess wise, than each of them appears.