THE SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY to the
MESSIAH, so loquy with a vow to a datafar-ị xem at porta
bozy Determination of the Dwt/thes taught in the H1 dự
Kuriptures tribes ring the Perma of Cucat. – By JOHN
PYE SMITH, DA

** PGYPT, NUNIA, HOLY LAND, MOUNT LEBANON, and CYPREX, an the Year 1914 My Capraids Log at.

sitely translated." I boldly recomas punishment of the pillory" It sh marked, that it was at his suggeste penalty began regularly to be inde persons guilty of perjury, &c.

Learning." No mau," says Sell the wiser for his learning; it may ade matter to work in, or objects to werk but wit, as well as wisdom, is born wi man."

Plays. In an old account book of! nard Lintot, the bookseller, the fol information respecting the prices paid for the copyrights of plays is Tragedies were then the fashionable and obtained the best price. De received for his Busiris, 84: S his Phædra and Hipolytus, 50%. B for his Jane Shore, 501. 15s., and for Jane Gray, 751. 5s.; and Cibber, fa Nonjuror, obtained 105.

bold enough to chose Coriolanus as the and is described at thirteen or fourteen
third character in which to appear on the Lon-hands high, fierce, and extremely wild. It
don stage. It was on Monday last that he at-is seldom caught alive, but frequently shot,
tempted to sustain this part; but to our minds and the flesh used for food. The hoofs are
the attempt fell far short of success, though cloven, the tail boar-shaped, and the horn
he certainly in many parts of the performance long and curved, growing out of the fore-
evinced very considerable talent. Indeed we head.
are inclined to think so favourably of this English travellers.A singular account of
gentleman's abilities, that we regret that he an English traveller of the name of Coch-
has not been more judicious in the choice of rane has been sent from Petersburgh, and
his characters. That of Coriolanus is one to inserted in the Newspapers. We have just
which his powers are unequal, or unsuited-received some interesting particulars from
and the remembrance of the matchless per- Moscow, which we shall insert in our next.
formance of Kemble is yet too fresh to allow Bon-mot." I am the guardian of my own
a fair chance of success, even to one more honour," said one of the leading advocates
highly gifted than this new candidate. The for reform to his friend, at a late public
lofty and swelling pride of the patrician-the meeting, in reply to some personal allusions
fullness and depth of his indignation-the of the ministerial journalists, as to the mo-
high bearing of his valour, his virtue, and tives by which he was actuated. "I am ex-
his revenge, are what, (as it seems to us,) ecedingly glad to hear it," was the reply;
Mr. Vandenhoff has not power to express. you have been long looking for a place,
He was more fortunate in the scene where he and have at last settled upon a sinecure!"
solicits the suffrages of the plebeians. There Dandy-Some one has endeavoured to
was throughout, (what he could not perhaps deduce the etymology of this word from
avoid,) an imitation of Kemble-but so bad, dandi-prat, a coin, as Rapin informs us,
that we were glad when Yates somewhat struck in the reign of Henry VII. It has
maliciously gave the mockery of the first ple- been frequently applied as a term of con-
beian in a good burlesque of Kemble's style. tempt by the early dramatists. Thus Mid-
The audience would not hear the play an- dleton, in his comedy More Dissemblers be-
nounced for repetition.
sides Women,' makes Dandolo say of Lac-
The new Christmas pantomimes announced tantio's page, "there's no fellowship in this
are, The North West Passage, or Harle-dandiprat, this dive-dapper." In the same
quin Esquimaux, at Drury Lane; and Har- play, Linquepace says, "Who would be
lequin and Friar Bacon, or the Brazen plagued with a dandiprat usher," &e. In
Head, at Covent Garden. For our friends Massinger's Virgin Martyr, Hircius, speaking
from all the public schools, we petition the of the attendant of Dorothea, thus solilo-
managers to perform these as middle pieces quizes upon him: "The smug dandiprat
thrice a week for the ensuing month.
smells us out whatever we are doing." He has
just before entitled him a "jackanapes," a
"white faced monkey," and a chitty-faced
page." Old Marston, in his Scourge for
Villanies,' notices the dandiprats, and so does
honest Master Dekker, in one of his come-misling rain in the evening.
dies. The term seems to have been in com-
mon request in the age of Queen Elizabeth,
as an epithet of reproach.

VARIETIES.

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METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL

DECEMBER 1820.

Thursday, 14-Thermometer from 2 te

Barometer from 30, 03 Wind N. 4, and N. E. 4. Generally des Rain fallen ,075 of an inch.

Friday, 15 - Thermometer from 30 t

Barometer from 30, 13 to . Wind S. E., and E. b. S. 2 and 3-≈ rally cloudy; sunshine in the afternoon. Saturday, 16-Thermometer from 16 t

Barometer from 29, 692 Wind E. b. S. 1, and 2.--Cloudy. Samsleet all the afternoon and evening. Sunday, 17-Thermometer from 28 to 9

Barometer from 29,78 to. V Wind E. b. N. and N. E. 4.-Generallye Snow on the ground 3 inches thick.

Rain fallen,1 of an inch. Monday, 18-Thermometer from 35 to 4

Barometer from 30, 2134 Wind E. b. N. 1-Foggy and clo Tuesday, 19-Thermometer from 40 10

Barometer from 30, 32 to 3 Wind E. b. S., S. b. W. andW.0") till the evening, when it became for uper part of a halo was formed about 8 P. M.

Rain fallen ,025 of an incli. Wednesday, 20-Thermometer from

Barometer from 30, 34 to 4

all day.
Wind S. E. 0.-Morning foggy, and che
Edmonton, Middlesex.

JOHN ADA

In conformity with an ordinance issued by the King of France, on the 25th of November, 1819, arrangements have been made at the Conservatory of Arts and Trades, for Anecdote.-The celebrated Earl of Hardgiving public instruction gratuitously on the wicke, Chancellor of Great Britain, was the application of the sciences to the industrious son of an attorney at Dover. During his arts. There will be three courses of instruc-education for the law, which commenced by tion, namely:-1st. Mechanics; 24. Che- his serving a clerkship with an attorney, he mistry, applied to the Arts; and 3d. Economy was frequently teazed by the wife of his emin Trade and Manufactures. The first course ployer, a notable housewife, with trifling erwill be superintended by M. Charles Dupin, rands, as foreign to the circumstances of his of the Royal Academy of Sciences; the profession as they were inconsistent with second by M. Clement; and the third by M. propriety and decorum. He soon took an Say, author of the Treatise on Political opportunity to put an end to this, with one IV. M. asks for the precise adress of Ne Fconomy. positive and peremptory refusal. Death of Naldi-Poor Naldi, the admi- are going by the Green Grocer's, Mr. Yorke, rable buffo of the King's Theatre, has met will you be so good as to buy ine a cauliwith a strange and untimely death at Paris. flower?" was the last request he was ever Going to dine with Garcia, it is stated in the troubled with. At his return the cauliflower journals, he stopped the valve of a new cook-was produced, which he observed cost one ing apparatus, which burst and killed him on the spot. His companion was slightly hurt. A description of the autoclave (the machine which proved so fatal) will be found at page 506 of the Literary Gazette for this year.

Unicorns.-The Quarterly Review asserts, on the authority of a letter from Major Latter, that the Unicorn of the Scriptures exists in herds in the hilly country east of Nepaul. It is called tso'po' in the Thibet language,

"As you

shilling and sixpence-sixpence for the cauli-
flower, and a shilling for a sedan chair to
bring it home in!!

Sir Walter Scott was lately unanimously
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Mr. Brougham was also recently chosen
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Pillory-Lord Kenyon's motto, Magna-
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THE COSSACKS.

are capable of bringing into the field, is esmen. timated at one hundred thousand When they are in active service, they receive a ration of flour, millet, or oatmeal, and are Characteristic Portraits of the various paid from twelve to fifteen rubles a year; Tribes of Cossacks attached to the Allied and as they are obliged to find their own Armies in the Campaign of 1815. Ta-arms, horses, equipments, and subsistence, it is pretty clear that they must live almost ken from Life at Paris, and accompanied by historical Particulars, &c. entirely at the expence either of their enemies or of their allies. Their dress, which is left to their own choice, is a motley mixLondon, 1820. 4to. pp. 52. ture of every colour. They are armed with a carbine, sabre, and pistols; but their principal weapon is a pike, from fifteen to eighteen feet long, which they manage with great dexterity, and which alone is sufficient to render them formidable. But besides these, some of the Cossack corps carry a singular and not less dangerous weapon. This is a rope, from fifteen to eighteen feet in length, with a noose at one end, which they fling with such expertness and rapidity over a flying enemy, that, provided he be within reach, they entrap him in the noose as securely as the lazomen on the river La Plata catch the wiid bullocks in precisely a similar mode. In this manner, at the time of the invasion of Russia, the French general Segur was caught, and dragged from his horse, by a Cossack, after he had cut his enemy's lance in two with his sword.”

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stealing softly up the steps of the pulpit unobserved by the minister, startled him not a little by tapping him on the shoulder in the midst of his harangue, and inviting him, as well as he could by signs, accompanied with all sorts of grotesque gestures, to descend, and no longer interrupt the gratification which the organist afforded to himself and his companions. Notwithstandthe solemnity of the place, the gravity of the minister and his congregation were not proof against this attack, and it was some time before the former could so far recover from its ludicrous effect as to resume his discourse.

"This fondness for music was displayed on another occasion :

He en

"A young lady, of a respectable family, was seated at her piano-forte, playing and singing. She was heard by a Cossack who was passing under her window. As if enchanted, he followed the melodious sounds, pursued his way up stairs, from room to room, and, after traversing several apartments, discovered the right one. tered, and stood listening behind the lonely musician, who, half dead with fear on perceiving the figure of her martial visitor in a mirror, would naturally have run away. He guage, but with friendly gestures, begged detained her, and, in unintelligible lan"The existence of this species of republic for a Da capo; and, without ceremony, in the bosom of a great empire is an ano- fetched his comrades out of the street. The "The Russian government alone posses-maly worthy of attention. Though the Cos-music soon relaxed the joints of the bearded ses the power of appointing or removing sacks are really subjects in the strictest sig-warriors, and in a few moments they struck the hettman and the principal officers. The nification of the word, they are not amena-up a charming Cossack dance in the best others are still elected by their equals; but b'e to the general laws of the state; and it room in the house. The trembling girl was when once they have taken rank in the Rus- seems doubtful whether they can ever be obliged to summon up all her courage and sian army, they cannot be cashiered, except brought into a state of civilization. The strength, that her fingers might not refuso by the emperor. The Cossacks in general transplantation of their hordes, the apparent to perform their office in this critical juncare registered for the service at the age of concessions made to them of their own ter-ture. She returned sincere thanks to Heaeighteen years, and not discharged till they ritory, the annual grants of corn distributed ven when the dance was over, and was not among them, serve to keep up their horror a little surprised when one of the delighted are fifty. "Before the revolution effected by mo- of foreign manners, and their attachment to performers, with the most cordial gestures, dern times in the military art, the Cossacks a wandering or military life; and, in short, said a piece of gold on the piano-forte. It had an infantry which occasionally distin- their country, of which they seem to be but was to no purpose that the young lady reguished itself by feats of unparalleled auda-transient occupants, appears to our view like fused it; the donors retired, leaving behind one vast camp pitched on the frontiers of them the piece of money, which the fair owner will doubtless preserve with care, as city, and rendered good service so long as they had to do with ignorant nations; but Europe. a memorial of the lovers of dancing and when the latter were strengthened by the lessons of genius and experience, the Cosmusic from the deserts of Asia. sack infantry shrunk from the conflict. They then brought forward only a light, undisciplined cavalry, the bulk of which cannot sustain a comparison with that of civilized states. It is divided into polks, or regiments, each consisting of from one to three thousand men, according to the extent of the district which furnishes them. These polks, commanded by a voskovo's ataman, or polkonishi, are subdivided into hundreds, fifties, and tens, which have their particular officers. The number of irregular troops which all the branches of this great family YOL. IV.

"The following anecdotes of the Cossacks who passed through Dresden in 1813, are strongly illustrative of their good-nature, cheerfulness, and general character.

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"The naïveté of these people were [was] expressed in a very different manner towards "It appears that these rude people are by another young lady, likewise of a genteel no means insensible to the charms of music, family, who, out of economy, and supposing for which they manifest a strong predilec- her guests to be so inured to hardship as Though the tion. A party of them, attracted by the to be proof against all sorts of weather, had solemn peal of the organ, entered a church, directed that no fire should be made in the and while it was playing, continued fixed in quarters destined for them. silent attention. Its tones ceased, and the almanac had for some days announced the officiating clergyman commenced his ser- return of all-reviving spring, the Cossacks This address, in an unknown lan-experienced none of its enlivening effects in mon. guage, soon began to excite symptoms of their uncomfortable quarters. Dissatisfied impatience in the strangers; one of whom with the place, they sallied out in quest of