His present majesty observed one day to a gentleman of high literary character, and of a distinguished political reputation, that oratory in this country was carried to a height far beyond its real use; and that the desire of excelling in this accomplishment, made many young men of genius neglect the more solid branches of knowledge. "I am sure," said his majesty, "that the rage for public speaking, and the extravagant length to which some of our most popular orators carry their harangues in parliament, is very detrimental to the national business, and I wish that in the end it may not prove injurious to the public peace." It is remarkable, that the opinion of the king agrees exactly with that of Aristotle, who says, “Nothing so effectually contributes to the ruin of popular governments, as the petulance of their orators. (Polit. lib. v.)

who were strongly recommended by persons | I have been accused of disaffection to the
of the highest rank, along with some who government, and deserved it as little; I was
were wholly destitute of such recommenda-guilty of a real attack upon the rights of
tion. The king observing this, gave an in-humanity, and I have been reproached by
stance of that goodness of heart which he ex-nobody."
hibited on so many occasions. Pointing to
the latter, he said, "Since these have no
protectors, I will be their friend;" and in-
stantly gave the preference to them.
Origin of the Slave Trade.-It will to
some appear singular that the Slave Trade
should have originated in an act of huma-
nity; yet such was the fact, and it exhibits
an instance of one of the best and most hu-
mane men being guilty of cruelty, when his
mind was under the influence of prejudice.
Barthelemi de las Casas, the Bishop of Chia-
pa, in Peru, witnessing the dreadful cruelty
of the Spaniards to the Indians, exerted all
his eloquence to prevent it. He returned to
Spain, and pleading the cause of the Indians
before the Emperor Charles V. in person.
suggested that their place as labourers might
be supplied by negroes from Africa, who
were then considered as beings under the
proscription of their Maker, and fit only for
beasts of burden. The emperor, overcome
by his forcible representations, made several |
regulations in favour of the Indians; but it
was not until the slavery of the African
Negroes was substituted, that the American
Indians were freed from the cruelty of the
Spaniards.

The Mimic Reclaimed.—A generous act, or an act of humanity, will sometimes operate most forcibly on the minds of those who might not be expected to feel its influence. In the beginning of the last century, a comedian of the name of Griffin, celebrated for his talents as a mimic, was employed by a comic author to imitate the personal peculiarities of the celebrated Dr. Woodward, whom he intended to be introduced on the stage as Dr. Fossile, in Three Hours after Marriage. The mimic, dressed as a countryman, waited on the doctor with a long catalogue of complaints with which he said his wife was afflicted. The physician heard with amazement diseases and pains of the most opposite nature, repeated and redoubled on the wretched patient. The actor having thus detained the doctor until he thought himself completely master of his errand, presented him with a guinea as his fee. "Put up your money, poor fellow, "cried the doctor, "thou hast need of all thy cash, and all thy patience too, with such a bundle of diseases tied to thy back." The mimic returned to his employer, who was in raptures at his success, until he told him that he would sooner die, than prostitute his talents to render such genuine humanity food for the diversion of the public.

Beccaria. This philosopher of humanity having in one of the later editions of his admirable work on Crimes and Punishments, in that part which relates to fraudulent bankruptcy, qualified some sentiments which he had originally expressed, but which on reflection appeared to himself too severe, he adds in a note, "I am ashamed of what I formerly wrote on this subject. I have been accused of irreligion without deserving it;

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in the same situation.” This well-timed harangue raised their spirits immediately, and in less than an hour he set his antagonist on fire. "There, my lads," said he, “I knew we should have our revenge soon."

Way to Promotion.-Speed relates, that Guymond, chaplain to King Henry the First, observing that for the most part ignorant men were advanced to the best dignities in the church, as he celebrated divine service before the king, and was about to read these words out of St. James, "It rained not upon the earth iii years and vi months," he read it thus: “It rained not upon the earth one -one-one years and five-one months." Henry noticed the singularity, and afterwards took occasion to blame the chaplain for it.

Sir," answered Guymond, "I did it on purpose; for such readers I find are sooner preferred by your majesty." The king smiled, and in a short time afterwards presented Guymond to the benefice of Saint Frideswid's in Oxford.

Sleepers Reprored.-A methodist preacher once observing, that several of his congregation had fallen asleep, suddenly exclaimed, with a loud voice, "A fire! a fire!" "Where! where!" cried his auditors, whom he had roused from their slumbers. "In hell; " added the preacher : " for those who sleep under the ministry of the holy gospel."

Patrick Henry-When Parick Henry, who gave the first impulse to the ball of the American Revolution, introduced his celebrated resolution on the stamp act into the house of Burgesses of Virginia (May, 1765), he exclaimed, when discanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, "Cæsar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; Another preacher, of a different persuasion, and George the Third—” (“Treason, more remarkable for drowsy preachers, findcried the speaker; treason, treason, ing himself in the same unpleasant situation echoed from every part of the house.) It with his auditory, or more literally speaking, was one of those trying moments which are dormitory, suddenly stopped in his discourse, decisive of character. Henry faultered not and addressing himself in a whispering tone | for an instant; but rising to a loftier atti- to a number of noisy children in the gallery, tude, and fixing on the speaker an eye flash-"Silence, silence, children," said he "if ing with fire, continued, "may profit by their you keep up such a noise, you will awake all example. If this be treason, make the most the old folks below.” of it."

Physiognomy.-A witness was one day called to the bar of the House of Commons, when some one took notice, and pointedly remarked, upon his ill looks. Mr. Fox (at terwards Lord Holland), whose gloomy countenance strongly marked his character, observed, "That it was unjust, ungenerous, and unmanly, to censure a man for that signature which God had impressed upon his countenance, and which therefore he could not by any means remedy or avoid," Mr. Pitt rose hastily, and said, "I agree from my heart with the observation of my fellow member; it is forcible, it is judicious, and true. But there are some (throwing his eyes full on Fox) upon whose face the hand of heaven has so stamped the mark of wickedness, that it were impiety not to give it credit."

Upon the whole, these are entertaining books for the grown up lovers of anecdote, and excellent presents for children.

Thoughts and Feelings. By Arthur Brooke. London, 1820. 12mo. pp. 120.

We presume that Arthur Brooke is a fictitious name; for, however blind men are to their own demerits, it is hardly possible that any person wishing to live well in society should avow himself the author of such immoral sentiments and detestable principles as kindle the verse of this author. In the true cant of the Naval Oratory-Admiral Blake, when writers in the profligate class to which a captain, was sent with a small squadron to he belongs, he sets out with expressing the West Indies, on a secret expedition a hope, that his "tenderer tone, against the Spanish settlements. It hap-"wilder songs," may be relished by the pened in an engagement, that one of his gentle few, though he anticipates ships blew up, which damped the spirits of the "Worldling's frown" and "Cynic's his crew; but Blake, who was not to be subdued by one unsuccessful occurrence, called sneer; " or in other words, forsees that out to his men, "Well, my lads, you have there are a majority of readers still left seen an English ship blown up; and now in this country, who will rebuke indelet's see what figure a Spanish one will make cency, and view with indignation the

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bold attempts to inculcate doctrines sub- Alone should govern this uneasy world. - Oh Thou that mockest at misfortune! Thou versive of the very foundations of hu- Then as in eager converse oft we drew

That warrest with the dead! Oh may the Nearer together, he would gently bend

blight man happiness. Of all the errors which My foræ to his, and with a smile and sigh Of lasting infamy upon thy brow, taint the mind of man, there is not one Sink on my lips,--and oh ! the subtile fire England! for this all blisteringly light! more falsely grounded, or more fatal in Which from that touch shot through my thrilling And when thou fall’st, as soon thou must, then be its consequences, than that abominable

veins!

Such mercy as thou shewedst, shewn to thee. selfishness which assumes the form of Oh, Mother, you are old, you do not know,

No wonder that a being with every Or have forgotten, haply never felt free liberality; and while it works ha- The transports which two mingling spirits feel, sense thus incapable of distinguishing vock and desolation around, prides it. Who having long explored on paintul wing between right and wrong, should draw self on its superior beauty and perfec- The unimaginable depths of Thought, the following picture of his own wretchtion : which consults its own gratifica- And realize one blessing e'en on earth. Find nothing to repose upon, but turn

edness. tion at the expence of others' dearest

At times in this tumultuous tenderness

I care not when this scene shall close, enjoyments; and deems that licenti- My senses were o'erwhelmed

No terrors hath the grave for me, ousness is virtue, and a disregard of And this precious trash is not forsooth This wearied frame may there repose,

And leave the encumbered spirit free ; every divine and moral institution, to alarm a mother's tears ! Perhaps not

Or should it rot in apathy, wisdom. Into this wretched blindness -the period for fear was past, and a And moulder with its mortal clay,– Mr. Brooke has unhappily fallen. He despairing conviction of irreclaimable Oh God! 'twere still a happy day whines about loveliness and love, and perversion and guilt, the juster feeling Hopeless on Earth, I turned to Heaven,

Which ends this fearful agony ! nature and fine feelings ; and seems to for the occasion. Here follows an ex

Till lost in Glory's boundless light, fancy that genius is synonimous with ample of the songs with which this fit An blind and blasted, downward driven, a perverted imagination ; that wild re- companion for a virtuons girl entertains I sunk in clouds of tenfold night;

And in the soul's perpetual blight veries are poetry; and that seduction, her.

I drag about this hateful chain ;adultery, blasphemy, and suicide, are Then damp not my joys by that sigh self-repro

But soon I shall not ask in vain amiable and admirable. The stupidity

ving;
The Virtue we serve shall be Nature and Truth;

From thee, O'Death, the wretchcd's right. of such opinions is perhaps the best and the misjudging world may condemn us for This picture of agony and despair ; surety for their not doing the mischief loving,

of hopelessness on earth and of blasting which their propagation might other

Who dcem but of Love as the folly of Youth. horror at the look towards heaven; is wise effect; and the folly and nonsense They know not that those in whose breasts it

beats strongest,

the best comment upon the author's in which they abound, are good anti- Have hearts to which wisdom its best lore principles. It is but just that depravity, dotes to the jingling depravity of this

hath given;

which would make earth hell, should click of rhymesters.

And that souls where its fervors divine have have no pleasure on earth ;...it is but We shall proceed to justify the cen

burned longest sure we have found it our painful duty

Are those best prepared for the raptures of just that infidelity, which would rob us
Heaven!

of the expectations of hereafter, should to bestow on this volume ; a duty, the This impious profanation is not acci- have no joy in the contemplation of performance of which could less possi- dental ; it is the undefecated result of Heaven. Doubt and disappointment, bly be avoided, as the author asserts deep corruption, and equalled (at page remorse and dread, are the sure fruits that his effusions are not ideal, but (87)' in what is styled an “ Actual of such doctrines, and of the practices “transcripts of personal feelings and dream," where some mistress is invited founded upon them, if unfortunately for experience; " which, if true, is the hea- to seek

the individual and for society, they are viest sentence upon him, that could be One little, bright, sequestered spot,

ever realized beyond the heated visions passed by the sound and honourable Where we, with undivided lot,

of a perturbed fancy. portion of his species.

Tranquilly might dwell and die,
Far from Man's malignity;

The two following little poems are “A young girl's address to her mo- Who here would work us many a woe,

specimens of the writer's better parts. ther” justifies, in the sentimental jargon Because we from our souls would throw of this pernicious school, infidelity, im- Custom's cold and cramping chain :

How sweet hath been this darkling pause ! modesty, and harlotry. She asks why And then we turned in hopelessness And long we searched—but searched in vain !

But, lo, the emerging moon I see, a parent should frown on her since she To take in one long wild caress

Whose envious light the veil withdraws only visits a bard, whoOur last farewell; one long, one last

Which screened awhile my love and me;
Embrace ;--Oh God! e'en that was past-

Beneath the shade we wandered free
Said he wandered.
And thou wert gone!

And mocked at man's obtrusive gaze,
And so in his belief did other men,
Though they perceived it not, through the sad We have not patience to go through Then fair as Dian's orb may be,

Love now might well excuse her rays ! with these odious and daring lessons, Yon trembling star, whose radiance dim Of life in error or uncertainty,

even for the purpose of pointing out Burps faintly in the distant skies, From birth to death without a hope or guide.

their wickedness, and exposing their Is light, and light enough for him And of the inexplicable mystery

Who looks but in his lady's eyes; Which wraps our being, mournfully he spake. absurdity. No wonder that to one so

TWILIGHT.

waste

Those sounds are hushed: despair has taught
My soul its fruitless plaint to cease,
Silent to bear the strife of thought,

But feel that patience is not peace;
My heart and harp their last have spoken-
The strings of both, at once were broken!
Our last quotation will show, that in
merry mood, as in sad, Mr. Brooke
places his sense of what is desirable for
human enjoyment on the worst possible
basis. His love and mirth cannot co-
exist with truth and reason;...the true
and rational epicure knows that these
give the former their finest zest.
To-night, to-night we twine, boys,

A chain of the brightest hours;
Then bring, then bring me wine, boys,
And scatter these rosy flowers!
Not often hath such a wadness

My bounding bosom thrilled,
But to-night must the cup of gladness
Up to the brim be filled!

Then away with Truth and Reason-
To-night let Love and Mirth
Make for a bright brief season

A Heaven on this dull Earth!

We think not of to-morrow,
But be it storm or shine,
'Twill take whole showers of sorrow
To cool this tide of wine;
Then bring, then bring me wine, boys,
And scatter these rosy flowers,
For to-night, to-night we'll twine, boys,
A chain of the brightest hours!

brew to destruction. Fairly tossed into the sea, his life, it was thought, would without fail appease the angry waves.

as for breath; and it seemed to deaden in my
mind even the sense of pain, which would
have been a welcome relief to my listlessness.
Fifty times an hour I looked alternately at The poor wretch heard from his hiding
the sun and at my watch: I stretched my- place the appalling sentence. He strove to
self; I yawned; I walked the deck long-creep under the loose stones, where he was
ways and cross ways: I listened to the dull almost suffocated; but had he nestled in their
jokes of the sailors, and even took part in very heart, like a toad, he could not have es-
convinced that tedium levels the various con- could save him from his impending doom.
Dragged upon the deck, no entreaty
their lifeless conversation, until I became caped.
ditions of life far more than love, or even When however, with one leg already over-
gambling. All my impatience was not of board, he saw himself on the brink of eter-
the least use! The sun rose, and the sun set; nity, he begged to ransom his life for money,
and in the day time the heavenly vault dis- and the before penniless creature offered,
played its uninterrupted azure, and at night first, one piastre, then two, then five, then a
the vast firmament twinkled with its innu- dozen! in order not to be thus turned
merable stars, and still we remained in the adrift. But existence was at stake with the
same spot, with the same headlands ever in sailors as well as with him; and gold had
sight, and the same uniform sluggish sounds lost its power. They let the Hebrew drop.
of flapping sails, flaunting ropes, creeking
timbers and groaning mast ever dinning in
our wearied ears. "The worst storm,
cried I sighing,
"would be a thousand times
preferable to the nuisance of a calin like
this!"

Anastasius' rejection by his family, in whom hatred overpowers prudence, is ably painted; and his repentant visit to the tomb of his first love, and her infant, is most pathetic.

The storm (which happened to lurk within Ever since the sight of home had revived hearing,) took me at my word. Scarce had ancient recollections, and with them the reI uttered the wish, than it hastened with all morse for ancient misdeeds, I had panted for possible alacrity to attend the invitation. a journey to Samos, there to perform on the A white fleece arose in the distant sky a lonely grave of my Helena the sad rites of dark streak shot across the wave beneath it; contrition and of penance. On the morning a breeze in short was felt. This breeze be- of my own birthday I proceeded to the not came a gale, and this gale grew to a hurri- far island, whose privileged earth held the cane. Angry clouds, gathering on all sides, sacred deposit; landed on its rocky shore began to travel in every direction through early in the afternoon, and ere the evening the sky. They met, they crossed, and stop-cast its lengthened shadows around, reached the hallowed spot, sole object of my visit.

Anastasius; or Memoirs of a Greek.ped each other as if to parley, until the whole

3 vols.
(Continued.)

Continuing his voyage from Constantinople to Greece, we cannot resist quoting the ensuing description as eminently beautiful and characteristic.

The current had faithfully escorted us out of the straights; but having fairly seen our ship into the open sea, it here made a deep obeisance, bid our party farewell, and dived away, leaving us for the remainder of the voyage to the care of the winds. These apparently were busy elsewhere. At least none attended our summons; and for several days we were left to confront nothing but a dead calm. Should any one be so fortunate as to have had no acquaintance thus far with the monster ennui, the most favorable situation without doubt for acquiring a thorough knowledge of its powers, is on board a vessel so small as to leave no room for exercise, in the midst of a sea so boundless as to offer no object for contemplation, where motionless in one's motionless vehicle, one lies for hours watching a cloudless sky for a breeze which stays away, and a waveless sea for a ripple which comes not! In this situation, while all else stands completely still, time itself seems to roll on so heavily, that though every hour of one's short life runs wholly to waste, one yet regrets that it does not waste faster. I, who could only breathe in a bustle and thrive in a whirlwind, absolutely gasped in this unrelenting stillness of the elements

heavenly vault became a continuous mass of
darkness. It would have been difficult to
decide which howled the inost dismally-the
frightened sailors, lowering the yards, closing
-or the
the hatchways, and clearing the deck-
frightful blast, mocking their petty endea-
vours, and tearing and tumbling every thing
about our ears. It kept lashing the roaring
waves, until they alternately heaved us up on
their foaming backs to the sky, or shot us
down their dark sides to the very bottom of
the sea.

The sun's departing rays were just gliding from the moss-grown tomb. I approached it with awe: strewed upon it the wild flowers which had grown in its shade; bedewed its silent stones with tears of grief and remorse, and over the ill-fated treasure underneath, poured out my heart's bitter anguish in alternate groans and prayers. The whole night Helena's grave-stone was my pillow; and early the next morning, ere yet the orb of day rose out of the sparkling wave-making my dagger my pen-I traced on the When the tempest became so furious that dusky slab as on the recording roll, my Chriseach sailor would have found employment tian, my Grecian, my old naine Anastasius: for a dozen hands, they all wisely left off filled in the deep sunk characters with the their work, to fall upon their knees, and say hot stream from my own bosom; and extheir prayers. Had Saint Spiridion, the pro- claiming: "with the purple of my own blood tector general of ships in distress, been cars I sign the marriage contract! I make thee all over, he scarce could have heard or heed- mine in death, and make thee mine in life ed all the vows addressed to him on this oc-hereafter!" for the last time imprinted my casion. But the more we prayed the more quivering lips on the cold marble, and rushed the storm continued blustering, until our away from death's receptacle, which I had ship must inevitably have sunk, had not the made my nuptial couch. sailors providentially hit upon an infallible expedient for appeasing the tempest.

From another chapter, detailing a voyage to Rhodes, we draw the portrait of a Turkish dandy.

The Jew, (one taken on board for charity) who, during the whole of the fine weather had made sport for us very handsomely on I speedily formed an acquaintance with deck, at the very first lowering of the sky one of the Tehawooshes of the Capitanhad taken care to dive into the hold among Pasha, who like myself was only a passenthe ballast. Entirely forgotten for a while, ger. Aly was his name, and Crete his counhe just happened to be remembered at this try. This latter circumstance added much, critical period. All now saw as plain as in my eyes, to the merit of his society. daylight the whole cause of the hurricane, as Turks of Candia, by their constant intermarwell as the remedy; and agreed that nothing riages with Greek women, to whom they could save the ship, but dooming the Hc-permit every latitude of worship, become di

The

The words were scarce out of my mouth, when I heard at some distance a loud and increasing clamour, which I supposed to be that of soine rejoicing or festival. Presently appeared an immense crowd of people of every age and description,-men, women, and children,-rending the air with their shouts. In the midst of the motley assemblage advanced in a separate cluster a chosen band, trailing after them in procession, with louder howlings than the pest, the city weights and scales.

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vested of much of their Mohammedan as- To me the contrast between the liveliness | shall therefore give a succint account of perity, and Aly, himself half a Greek, was of the Alexandrians and the solemn stupi- them. not entitled to any great prejudice against dity of the Turks, seemed quite enchanting. Vol. I. contains historical proofs of the me for being only half a Turk. In the re- As I went to secure my night's lodging at an antiquity of the Romance language, refinement of his toilet, however, Aly Teha-okkal I was every instant arrested by their searches into the origin and formations woosh might be considered as a finished Os-wit and repartee. "How pleasant it must of that language, with the elements of manlee. Nothing could exceed the exqui- be to reside here," said I to myself; "gay its grammar before the year 1000: lastsite taste of his apparel. flis turban at- people are always so good natured!” ly, a grammaire raisonnée of the lantracted the eye less even by its costliness of guage of the Troubadours. Thus it contexture than by its elegance of form. A tains the historical and grammatical notions band of green and gold tissue, diagonally which are to serve as an introduction to the crossing the forehead, was made with studireading of the poems collected in the suc ous ease, by its oblique position, completely ceeding volumes. There remains nothing to overshadow one eye, and as completely more to be wished for, but a dictionary of to display the other. From its fringed exthe words peculiar to the language of these tremity always hung suspended like a tassel, ancient poets, or which it is difficult now to a rose or carnation, which, while it kept carecognise in ours and Mr. Raynouard in ressing the wearer's broad and muscular fact intends to terminate his collection with throat, sent up its fragrance to his disdainful a glossary particularly adapted to the poems nostril. An hour every day was the shortwhich it contains. est time allotted to the culture of his adored mustachios, and to the various rites which these idols of his vain-glorious heart demanded; such as changing their hue from a bright flaxen to a jetty black, perfuming them with rose and amber, smoothing their straggling hairs, and giving their taper ends a sinart and graceful curve. Another hour was spent in refreshing the scarlet dye of his lips, and "And has the law weighed and found him tinting the dark shade of his eye-lids, as well wanting?"-"How could it help doing so?" as in practising the most fascinating smile was the reply, "when we all demanded his and the archest leer which the Terzhana punishment? We insisted on the Shar-allah, could display. His dress of the finest broad--the justice of God; and the Cadee himcloth and velvet, made after the most dash- self thought us too many not to be in the ing Barbary cut, was covered all over with right. So we are going to execute the gold embroidery, so thickly embossed as to sentence." appear almost massive. His chest, uncovered down to the girdle, and his arms, bared up to the shoulder, displayed all the bright polish of his skin. His capote was draped so as with infinite grace to break the too formal symmetry of his costume. In short, his handjar with its gilt handle, his watch with its conecaled miniature, his tobacco pouch of knitted gold, his pipe mounted in opaque amber, and his pistols with diamondcut hilt, were all in the style of the most consummate petit maitre; and if, spite of all his pains, my friend Aly was not without exception the handsomest man in the Otthoman empire, none could deny his being one of the best dressed. His air and manner harmonized with his attire. A confident look, an insolent and sneering tone, and an indolent yet swaggering gait, bespoke him to be, what indeed it was his atmost ambition to appear, a thorough rake. Noisy, drunken, quarrelsome, and expert alike in the exercise of the bow (the weapon of his country), The Appendix to this first volume conand in that of the handjar, he possessed every tains 12 other articles, some being short, others one of the accomplishments of those heroes, more or less extensive, but almost always chiefly met with on the quays of Constanti-interesting, especially to Orientalists. Mr. nople and the other principal seaports in the de Sacy takes occasion to make some criOtthoman empire, whom a modest woman tical remarks on several of them. avoids, and to whom a respectable man always gives way.

"What means this ceremony?" said I, Vol. II. contains dissertations on the accosting one of the actors in this novel scene, Troubadours and on the Cour d'amour &c.; For what purpose are these instruments the monuments of the Romance language travelling?""For the purpose of gibbet-down to these poets, and inquiries into the ting the chief of the customs, a Syriac Chris- various kinds of their works. The selection tian, on the instrument of his mal-practices;" of their poetry, therefore, begins in fact hastily answered the fellow, impatient at the with the third volume; but the second detention. contains many extracts arranged in classes, and preceded both by general views of their ideas and manners, as of more ancient monuments of the language in which they wrote. These are indeed additional preliminaries, but in which a great number of pieces in prose, and still more in verse, are presented to the reader mixed with the researches and observations which illustrate them.

short historical notices, to acquaint us as far as possible with the place and time in which each of the Troubadours lived. We may refer, it is true, to Millot's History of the Troubadours, and to the literary History of France; but not to mention that there are errors in those works, it would be convenient to find in Mr. Raynouard's work all the information relative to the authors of the poems which he publishes.

CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 21.

Bachelors of Arts, of Queen's College, were
Joseph Dewe, Esq. and Joshua King, Esq.
on Friday last elected Foundation Fellows of
that society.

The Rev. John Hulse, of Elworth-hall, in

MAGDALENE COLLEGE.-Mr. Lane...... EMMANUEL COLLEGE.-Messrs. Agnew, Fielding, Freer, Hickman, Savage, Shelford, Wharton.. .7

FINE ARTS.

PORTRAIT OF THE KING.

the county of Chester, formerly a member of St. John's College in this university, among other bequests for the promotion of religion and learning, instituted a Lecture- Mr. Ackermann has published an affecting These additions, if he thinks them useful, ship in Divinity, to which he annexed a con-portrait of his late Majesty. It is from the will form part of the volumes which he is siderable salary, arising out of estates in able pencil of Count Munster, the constant preparing; and we may be assured that he Middlewich, Sandbach, and Clive. The attendant on his Majesty during the latter will omit nothing of what should make his duty of the Lecturer is to preach and pub-years of his public life, to whom the King work a complete course of the Romance li-lish twenty sermons, chiefly on the truth and granted the honour of a sitting shortly beterature. This third volume has the double excellence of revelation.-The Rev. Chris-fore he was seized by his last melancholy merit of publishing many hitherto inedited topher Benson, of Trinity College, has been malady. It is stated, that this is acknowpieces, and of giving a pure and correct chosen Lecturer for the present year.-This ledged by the Royal family to be a most acis the first appointment under Alr. Hulse's curate resemblance; and to eyes less famiwill. liar with the royal countenance, it certainly appears to be at once an interesting and a faithful portrait.

edition of them.

Art. III. Leçons de Philosophie, par M.
Laromiguière.

This work has been already noticed in our Analysis of the Journal des Savans. The subject, though of considerable importance, and as it appears from the character of the work given by the review, very ably treated, has not sufficient general interest to induce us to go at length into it; especially as the review is not even now concluded, but is to be continued in some succeeding number

of the Journal.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. CICERO'S LOST BOOKS DE REPUBLICA.

In addition to what we have stated respecting the discovery of Cicero De Republica we may add, that another MS. includes the second part of some ancient works, the first part of which was discovered by M. Mai at Milan, some time ago. These manuscripts originally belonged to a monastery at Bobbio, whence they were removed at the commencement of the seventeenth century, and conveyed partly to Rome and partly to Milan. The second manuscript also contains some correspondence between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius, and the conclusion of the valuable commentary on Cicero, the commencement of which has already been published at Milan.

LEARNED SOCIETIES.

OXFORD, Jan 29. On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred:

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Rev. John Bartholomew, Corpus Christi College. Rev. Charles William Stocker, Fellow of St. John's College. BACHELORS OF ARTS.-William Peel, Esq. Brasennose College, grand compounder. William Henry Deverell, Wadham College. William Wood, Exeter College. Charles Henry Cox, Student of Christ Church. John Adams, Christ Church. Henry Hutton, Scholar of Balliol College. William Pole Balliol College.

PORSON PRIZE. The passage fixed upon for the present year is,

SHAKESPEARE, MACBETH, Act I. Scene

the last.-The dialogue between Macbeth
and Lady Macbeth. Beginning with

"We will proceed no further."—
And ending with

-"What the false heart doth know." JAN. 28.-Saturday last, being Bachelors of Arts' Commencement, 134 gentlemen were admitted to that degree

of no

BUST OF THE DUKE OF KENT.

We looked the other day at a bust of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, for which he gave the last sitting only the day before he left town for Sidmouth. His Royal Highness's head was favourable to the sculptor; the cranium being common form and the counteTRINITY COLLEGE.-Messrs. Austin, Bain, nance marked and regular, with a strong Baines, Barlow, Barron, Bird, Codding-family likeness. The artist, Mr. Turnerelli, ton, Crakelt, Cowell, Dodsworth, Eggin- appears to have made a good use of these ton, Goode, Hall, Haworth, Higgins, circunstances, for we never saw a resemHumfrey, Huntington, Knox, Lyon, Mur- blance more striking than that which his ray, Overton, Paynter, Platt, Richards, portrait bears to the deceased Prince. The Ross, Scholfield, Sheepshanks, Swann, contemplation of this model afforded a meTayler, Vicars, Waddington, Waln, Wi-lancholy reflection :-but a few days before, gram, Williams, Worsley. .35 it was the imitation of a living being endow ST. JOHN'S COLL.-Messrs. Alington, An-ed with energy, function, thought-how indrews, Bray, Brooshooft, Buckstone, But-animate, how inferior, how worthless, in ler, Chapman, Close, Daniel, Dixon, Ed- comparison !-but a few days had elapsed; monds, Godfrey, Harrison, Heberden, and that exalted mould was annihilated by Inge, Jenyns, Law, Leeder, Locking, Loxdale, Maddy, Parham, Parkinson, Parry, Pitt, Plucknett, Spencer, Steward, Thresher, Tremlett, Trotter, Williams..32 ST. PETER'S COLL.-Messrs. Carr, Pack

man

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CLARE HALL.-Messrs. Burdakin, Bur-
roughes, Codd, Farington, Frost, Le Grice,
Walker..

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PEMBROKE HALL.-Messrs. Allen, Deane,
Fallowfield, Ion, Kirby, Lubbock, Maltby,
Umplielly....
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CAIUS COLLEGE.-Messrs. Clayton, Cob-
bold, Kelly, Pearce, Ward, Wenn, Wilder 7
BENE'T COLLEGE.-Messrs. Brough, Ed-
wards, Francis, Otter, Rigg, Robinson,
Wilkinson, Winder..

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE.-Messrs. Butts, Green,
Hartley, Wilton.
CATHARINE HALL.-Messrs. Darby, Dewe,
Durham, Eastwick, Graham, Milner, Wil-
kinson
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JESUS COLLEGE. Messrs. Crowther,
Gedge, Lockwood, Powell, Stevens, Wil-

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death, and this ordinary clay, for attraction, for consideration, for worth, was all, and its original was nothing. Permanent, excellent, it bade fair to last and be admired for years of time, gazed at by generations of Britons, when, perhaps, in its marble features they were tracing those of the progenitor of a line of monarchs, under whose sway many vicissitudes of good and evil, of defeat and victory, of difficulty and triumph had been experienced.

The costume of the bust is a field marshal's uniform, with orders of knighthood; and we consider it to be one of the finest specimens. of the artist.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

[By Correspondents.] OBERON TO HIS FAIRY QUEEN. Breathe, oh breathe

On this flowery wreath,

And its brightness shall live,