gered with me, and were loth to part. He looked at his watch on alighting from his pony, as much as to say, a short walk, and then." Next, when fatigued, he sat down on a bank, and seemed determined to shake hands, and to bid adieu;-but he could not. He then remounted, and proposed riding on to dinner, in the cool of the evening. My heart placed all these debts of gratitude to his account. Agnes. We were prevented from attending, it is probable that we never shall behold He had another object, however, in this confidential walk; in this protracted journey together. He wished to give me a great deal of good advice, and that advice was offered and delivered to me more like a brother and a comrade, a companion and a friend, than a parent, and one set in authority over me,more like the man prone to error and failing like myself, than one to whom age and experience had bestowed so decided a superi-pany composed, for the greater part, of faces oritv. DUBLIN THEATRE.-Mr. Harris has opened the New Theatre at the Rotunda, Dublin. The first performances were the Belle Stratagem and the Spoiled Child. An Irish joker expresses a hope that all will go on squarely in the Rotunda, and praises the beginning as a Beau Stratagem of Mr. H. who must not end as a Spoiled Child. already familiar to the public, and promising On how many useful subjects did he give a very agreeable season. Bartley is still me his cool and unpresuming counsel! manager. His American perigrinations have How fraught with honour, sentiment, and rather assisted his good looks: he was redelicacy were his paternal admonitions! In ceived with the applause of old friendship. how many instances of life have his precepts The house is, in its decorations, as it was; and warnings, upheld and prevented ine from but that feature of theatres, which has of evil! How often has a retrospect of that late years assumed such prominence, the happy hour been a benefit to me in my pas-Saloon, has had the happiness of much emFOREIGN THEATRICALS.-At the close of sage through life! bellishment, alteration, and fresh water. the Brussels Theatre, M. Bernard, the maWe parted, precipitately at last; for the Whatever other blooms may be destined for nager, delivered a long address, including a mail-coach-horn relieved us from those ach- its ornament, Covent Garden has been review of the last dramatic season, and the ings of the bosom which a first separation stripped of its innocent flowers and refresh-budget for the ensuing year. The address confrom those who are dear to us naturally ing shrubs. The hall is handsome, and the tained the following passage :-The number produces. theatre cool. This is much. The perform- of dramatic works of every description proThat parent, alas! is now no more! Iances were, with the exception of The duced last year at this theatre, amounts to two have been the support of his sad relict; but Promissory Note," old; and that one was hundred and forty-four. Of these, twentyI have no longer that brotherly father to new only to this country, for it is taken from eight were pieces never before represented hang upon my arm, to pledge me in the con- the French. It is light and lively. Miss at Brussels, and forty-six were revivals. At vivial cup, to interest himself in every circum- Carew, Miss Kelly, Miss Stevenson, Miss least forty additional pieces would have stance concerning my welfare in this chequ- Lowe, and Mrs. Chatterly, sustain the wit, been produced but for the embarrassment ered scene of life, nor to recur to, for advice, beauty, and song, all the syrenship on the occasioned by the erection of a new theatre, in difficulty or distress. female side; Wrench, Wilkinson, Chatterly, the want of decorations, and the indisposition Often have I, in different climates and novel &c. do the honours on the other side. Har of several of the performers. When the situations, in distant and in doubtful circum-ley should be among the number, but he is number of pieces represented in the four stance, pondered upon this opening scene of great cities of France is compared with the life, with a melancholy sensibility, which above, it is singular to find that the majorihas mingled sweets and bitterness so intity is on our side, and that the united novelmately together, that not to have been sad, ties of the four principal theatres of France, would have been double wretchedness, since scarcely equal in number those produced at sadly sweet was the very essence of reflecBrussels. tion. Even at the moment that I am writing these lines, it seems as if my father's shade hovered near me as if I were wrapt and covered all over in affection's mantle. Farewell, dear scenes! I shall never behold ye more! yet must memory itself perish, ere ye fade from the heart of THE HERMIT IN THE COUNTRY THE DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE.—On Thursday week a very promising young singer made her debut, at this Theatre. Her name is Corri, a younger sister of the lady of that name, who is so accomplished an ornament to our list of native artists. The Debutante has a very fine voice, and will, we are confident, become a great favourite with the public. On Tuesday last, a Madame Montano, from Florence, appeared as the heroine in plundering somewhere in the provinces: he VARIETIES. MR. MATHEWS from HOME.-On Saturday last, Mr. Mathews concluded his entertainments for the season, and delivered an dent of the Royal Society, pro tempore. Dr. Wollaston has been appointed Presiaddress in which he, with good reason, This very able chemist, as far as report goes, prided himself on the success which had at- has not the very ample fortune which the tended his efforts, and alluded to the extra-station permanently requires; and it would ordinary circumstance of one man having be injurious to generous habits to impose an amused so many, such numerous, and respectable audiences. This is indeed a great expense of too heavy a nature upon a liberal achievement; but its reward not greater than spirit. its merits. For ourselves, we may say, that and always come away impressed with wonwe have repeatedly witnessed these pieces, der at the display of that peculiar talent with which this individual is so richly endowed. By peculiar, we do not mean single talent; for there is almost boundless variety in Mr. Mathews' imitations, and his natural gifts taken altogether, form, in our opinion, quite a phenomenon. We have never seen, and what is more, we have never read of any thing of the kind, equal to his performance; and died on Tuesday morning at Cambridge. He DR. MANSELL. The Bishop of Bristol and eminent for his literary qualifications. was a distinguished member of the church, education of the lower classes in England and Wales will not, it is understood, proceed farther this session than the first reading of the bill. We trust it will receive all the consideration its great importance merits; and not be made a shuttlecock for the battledores of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, as the question of Charitable Institutions was— Education. The new measure for the with little of charity between the parties, little in the views of the originators of the question, and little in the hearts of its opposers. The Bear, a Bull-Between the New Street and the Haymarket, in Piccadilly, are two taverns; the one with the figure of a white bear, as large as life, for a sign, and the other with a black bear of nearly the same size: but the whim of the thing is, that over the Black Bear is inscribed in large letters, "THE SPREAD EAGLE." A broker in Knightsbridge, wishing to recommend his goods, has ticketted with the lowest prices a number of beds, which he designates par excellence "WATERLOO BEDS." This is at least a poetical idea; for Waterloo, in its way, was like the great bed at Ware, a great bed of honour; and these at Knights bridge, so near the quarters of the guards, may be "honour's truckle beds." Constantini Manassis Sir Joseph Banks, we hear, has left his li- ratio Amatoria et We read in the French Journals, and are London. An eminent medical gentleman, Mr. Chine, asserted some years ago, that London was the healthiest place in the world; a distinguished geologist has now discovered that this city stands on the only spot in the island not liable to earthquake. M. Galin, a musical professor, has lately introduced in Paris a new instrument for teaching music, called the Melopluste. M. Galin's ingenious method consists in making his pupils sing from a stave, without either cliffs or notes, according to the movements of a portable rod. The Meloplaste is now almost universally substituted for books of solfeggi, which were formerly considered indispens G out, The Affiches de Poitiers contained the fol- Original Washing done here," is an inscription at a London Laundry-what is it? Curious Occurrence. An elephant which has been for some weeks exhibited at Geneva, where it was remarkable for docility and intelligence, lately began to evince symp-able. toms of obstinacy which alarmned his keepers. A few days after, he was removed from his habitation at Geneva, to be conveyed for exHibition, to Lausanne. He marched off with every mark of impatience and rebellion, and soon became so refractory that it was found impossible to control him. He wounded his conductor severely, and escaped from him, and returned to Geneva. He passed through the streets, spreading the utmost alarm among the inhabitants: he stopped before the houses of all the brandy merchants, and threatened to break open their doors. With considerable difficulty, he was conveyed to the Dutch Bastion, where he was confined. The proprietor of the animal, fearing lest some dreadful mischief might occur, gave orders for shooting him. A piece of cannon was accordingly brought out, and the first discharge laid him dead. Some time back, -the owner refused to sell this elephant for twenty-five thousand francs. The French scientific expedition in the Uranie frigate, under Captain Freycinet, which has been several times mentioned in the Literary Gazette, touched at Sydney, New South Wales, in December last. A New Island-off Cape Horn, in lat. 61° long. 55°, has been discovered by the ship William, on a voyage to Valparaiso. This vessel explored the coast for 200 miles. The Captain went on shore, and found the island covered with snow and uninhabited. Seals and whales abounded on the coast: it has been christened New Shetland. The King has presented a gold medal and chain to Sir Thomas Lawrence, as President of the Royal Academy, to be worn by him in that capacity. The medal bears a portrait of the King, and is inscribed, "from His Majesty King George IV, to the President of the Royal Academy," The Composer Paer, has been nominated a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, by the King of France; and R. Lefevre, the painter, and Dr. Beauchêne, author of Maximes et Pensées, members. 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George the Third; and to the pure propriety | royal progeny, the queen, the domestic sa- THE PERSONAL CHARACTERS OF SOVEREIGNS. - Letters from Mrs. Delany, (widow of Dr. Patrick Delany,) to Mrs. Frances Hu- The anecdotes are too few to justify the title page; and this sketch of royal privacy is altogether very slight: but as the former are authentic, and the latter is spirited and correct, they would at any period deserve the notice of a people sensitively alive to every recorded syllable touching the sovereigns who for more than half a century have sat upon the throne of these realms. At the present day they possess an augmented interest, and force upon the mind consider ations of the deepest importance. Can we help, then, being sorely affected by the deplorable circumstances of the pas Nor had she suffered, or fancied she sufsing era? When we reflect upon the stain- fered wrong, and entertained the maligless fame of a Charlotte, must we not feel nant wish for revenge, were there grounds with aggravated force the arraigned reputa- for that vile recrimination, the threat of tion of a Caroline? When we recall to mind which shakes and troubles us now. The the perfect regard of a preceding queen to private life of the Man was the counterall the duties of her high station, must we part of the public life of the Monarch. Vice not deplore with added sorrow the mournful was unknown to either; and calumny and The universal impression, that "Windsor's deviations of our present queen? The fatal faction (for what is there in humanity that royal towers" were the abode of domestic consequences are yet in the womb of time; can avoid the one, or in royalty that can felicity, is proved by these Letters to have but we will fearlessly, because patriotically, escape the other?) whispered but of little been a just opinion. They show us a King declare, that whatever has been the nature weaknesses and of unintended error. The and Queen living in the bosom of their fa- of her Majesty's doings abroad, the course baseness of a Pindar, and the virulence of a mily, the pattern of conjugal and parental she has in several instances adopted in Eng-Junius, could do no more. Would it were so virtue; surrounded by subjects whom they land, is derogatory to the crown, and dan- still! But it is not. The throne is not surhad made their friends, and in whose inter-gerous to the country. These are no parti-rounded by such men as formerly; there is course the burthensome pomp of royalty zan sentiments-in common with every not that respect for popular opinion which was dismissed to make room for the kindly well-wisher to Britain, we perceive with dis- is alike conducive to the power of the king delights of the human affections; their hours gust, that no sense of what is owing to the and the tranquillity of the subject; glimpses of relaxation from the cares of empire and peace and happiness of 15 millions of men, have been caught of a court cmincut for neithe fatigues of state, given to amusements comes in to temper the fury of personal pas-ther morality nor religion, and consistently either of elegant or elevating kinds, and all sions. The gratification of these bids ex-with the principles which we maintain, we the most innocent; superintending the edu- claim with the Misanthropecation of their children; turning from exercise and the chase to the fine arts and litera-Religion to the Gods, Peace, Justice, Truth, ture, and from these to the sublime music of Handel; and finally, never forgetting the God under whom Princes reign, but paying Him due adoration and the fervent homage of christian hearts every day, in public and in private. What a picture is here! we look upon it with regret, inspired by the melancholy contrast of what is now presented to a nation's gaze: We cannot but remember such things were, and were most dear to us. We can not but remember that the virtues of the crown formed the key and corner stones of that grand structure which was Britain's bulwark against the fierce assaults of overwhelming revolution; her defence, from whose strong sides rolled back, impotent, the tumultuous tides of political anarchy and moral subversion. And to what did we owe this protection-et præsidium et duléc decus-To the simplicity of soul and manners, the firm integrity and spotless life of VOL. IV. Piety, and Fear, Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood, Queen Charlotte was a foreigner; her We are not speaking of politics, but of mo rale; not of crime, but of propriety of conduct. assert that such cannot be the case without But we will not extend them to a more wearisome length; the train being suggested, every intelligent reader may follow the sequel, as our extracts from Delany's Letters direct. We only premise that this lady lived first with the Duchess of Portland, and on her death was invited by their Majesties to resiac near them in Windsor, where she had constant opportunities of observing their interior economy and private conduct. The preface justly remarks "At a moment like this, when the recept loss of our beloved monarch has excited interest towards every circumstance illustrative of his private life and character, |