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honestly, only one knife being stolen by a boy, who confessed the theft, upon all the persons being convened under the great tree and separately interrogated. Their superstitions are many and strange. Men will not eat the flesh of a fowl till tasted by a woman, to take off the fetiche—the taboo of the South Seas. Pumpkins and eggs are objects of similar superstitions; and when Captain T killed a cow, the king sent for the fetiche piece for the Ganga, or priest, chusing very wisely: the prime of the meat, one of the hind quarters Auld mourotus WT

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The two prominent moral features are the indolence of the men, and the degradation of the women, who are considered as perfect slaves, at the entire disposal of their fathers and husbands. Notwithstanding this, however, the intriguing with a man's wife is punished by a fine of two slaves, and in default of payment, the husband seems to be authorized to murder the adulterer. "Both men and women rise at daylight; and after washing their skins, those who pretend to gentility, rub their shoulders and bodies to the waist with palm-oil, which, though it keeps their skin smooth, gives even to the women, who otherwise have not the same natural effluvia as the men, a most disagreeable smell.

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There are much fewer Mulattoes among them than might have been expected from their intercourse with Europeans, two only having been seen. The mode of salutation is by gently clapping the hands; and an inferior at the same time goes on his knees, and kisses the bracelet on the superior's ancle.

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Having gone through the general remarks, which occurred to the writer at Emhomma, we shall now accompany the expedition which proceeded upwards on the 5th of August. They observed on the north shore Hanging precipice, the place of eum Eu of execution of the King'o of Bommes frail, wires, and their para: mours,who are tumbled from the sum mit into the river,like poor Morris tán Rob Roy

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An optical illusion, resembling the mirage in character, though not in kind, which the travellers witnessed, is worthy of notice, as we do not remember to have heard of such an appearance upon a river, Captain T. ascribes it to the state of the atmosphere, and the shadows of the high hills; but what ever was the cause, the effect wus extraordinaryyanagaroo bɔ were

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clear of them in passing to and fro, evinced that they never lost sight of the penalty. The Chenoo, besides his red cloak laced, had on his head an enormous high cap of the white feathers of the heron. One of the other kings was covered with an old hat; and the third was wrapped in a velvet mantle, and on his head a coronet, with a large button of coloured glass, which had evidently been procured from a theatre. This assembly was composed of about fifty persons squatted on the sand. en to atologa The result of the palaver was a grant of two guides to go as far as the cataracts, beyond which the country was a terra incognita to every soul of this Banza. The usual keg of brandy produced even a more riotous scramble than at Though this is the first time we have Bomma, and towards the conclusion, read a specific account of this pheno-one having been unable to catch a menon in the Congo, it is well known share, his neighbour, who had been to many seamen, that similar deceptions more fortunate, and who had kept it as are common on the African coasts, long as he could hold his breath (as where the vessel often appears to its they always do,) very generously spat inmates to be in the clouds, and the a portion of this mouthful into the land lying low at their feet, while in other's mouth." point of reality, the shore is higher than the ship. Here the shadows of the mountains cannot produce the illusion, and we are rather inclined to attribute it to certain formations of the clouds.

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At night the little flotilla anchored, and procured for supper a few shrimps, which a fisherman had just caught in a very well made cotton scoop-net. At 11 they again weighed and crossed the river to the banza Sooka Congo, the Mafooka of which sent bis interpreter for a bottle of brandy, which he did not obtain. A few miles higher up, they passed close under a hill where upwards of twenty monkeys, which, had their tails, not contradicted the supposi tion, would, from their bulk, and black faces, have been set down for natives:

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With this delicate trait, and the present of a measly pig from the king, we take our leave of the Chenoo of Noki.

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NEÁLE'S ‹ TRAVELS.
(Continued)

In proceeding from Vienna to Connion preferred the route through Ga stantinople, Dr. Neale and his compalitzia and Moldavia by Lemberg, lassy, and Galatz, to that through Hungary and Transylvania, by Bukarest and Ruschuk. On the second day they arrived at Brunn, a considerable town in Moravia, where, in the fortress of Spielberg, are imniured the majority of the criminals of Austria, whose numbers, such are the moral habits of this people, are extremely limited. The criminal code of Austria visits very few offences with capital punishment; and to this may in great measure be attributed the unfrequency of crimes, of which there are more committed in one English county in twelve months than in all the Austrian states in two years.

sono, the spot where the slave trade By the 9th they reached the Condo was wont to be carried on; and the next day Captain Tuckey paid a visit to the Chengo of Noki, whose banza it cost him two hours fatiguing march to approach. It is situated on the level suihileof the highest hills, amidst palm trees and plantations of vegetables, including young cabbages in rede (says, Dr. N.) we were shewn several dangreat pel Below the deep moats of this fortress fection iqqutb ban god din obigeons appropriated to the use of some hunIn a few minutes (says the Captain) dreds of felons, who here drag out their was ushered into the presence of the Che-loathsome existence They had finished On the th tley continued their pro pburzywol bus. Vhod s of geot mo noo, whom we found seated with two other the labours of the day; and under the ingress: Chenoos, in much more savage magnificence spection, of the officers of the fort, the jaiThe anthills were Kere extrethely hume: but less of European manner, than the King Lets were chaining them down to strong rous shift their' now unoccupied, it appearing that of Bomara, the Seats and grounds being iron balts running along the foot-boards of Rabitations" to the here covered with lions and leopard skins, large wooden bedsteads on the planks of trees in this season: those on the ground the treading on which, byla subject of the which they were extended in rows of about have exactly the shape of a mushroom, eon-highest rank is parithebanished with slas forty persons, each. They are not allowed Bisting of a round column, 18 inches high very and the care with which, they stepped straw, haud of course releeping thei

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clothes. They were chained in pairs by
handcuffs at the wrists, their feet being se
cured by d. rumning chain, to the bolts be
fore mentioned. The squalid misery and
ruffian-like physiognomies of these wretch
ed men were dreadful. Such too is the fero
cions disposition which they often evince,
that, as we were told by the officers, even
upon very slight provocations when at work,
they have been known to
companion's brains with a blow of their
handcuffs. Two or three of such desperar

resembling rude cages, when compared | ger, a head presenting those traits of phys
to the stone buildings of the adjoining siognomy, which, by a long association; I
provinces. Travelling is here no plea-davays conjoined with the autorite
The accommoda-
surable excursion.
tions are, wretched, both in lodging and
food. Dr. Neale gives a dreadful ac
count of what Poland was; and though
the bent of his politics is entirely the
source of all the blessings the
now enjoying the people

abstract countenance of the Saviour of world.ien bug, disconte ri quznali to salt lampo The women are represented as being handsome; and their head-dresses, resembling those of the Egyptian sphynxes, seem, altogether unchanged since the of people, under, under, the name of Melanchlani, dwelling among the Scy thians on the banks of the Tyras, 10 111

upon very slight provocations Wout their other way, he hails the Partition as the age when Herodotus describes a simi

does were pointed out to us, chained down in corners of the dungeons, apart from their companions in guilt. The lowest of the dungeons we visited was 80 feet be neath the bottom of the ditch, and the necessary ventilation is admitted by narrow grated shafts opening into the moat. In nals of rank. It was here that General Mack and Prince Aversperg were after wards confined; the latter for two years, the former only for a few months. The labours of the common convicts consist in cleaning the streets and repairing the romparts of Brunu: they work in pairs; and when at any time one of the two expires during the day, his companion is forced to drag his body about till sunset, when he is liberated from the corpse, but never before. Brunn was becoming the Leeds of Austria and several manufactories of fine woollen cloths and kerseymeres were in a very flourishing condition. Some English subjects were among the workmen, anil English machinery was employed."

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Arriving at Lemberg, the tourists waited to see Kutusoff's army, march In traversing Moldávin, Dr. N. nothrough; and having made a bargain tices the singularly primitive aspect of with a Jew to furnish them with horses the country, intersected with marshes to Jassy, the capital of Moldavia, and small lakes in a degree curious bepushed on for that city. The state and yond all description, and every way less condition of the Jews in this portion of civilized than any territory in Europe. Poland furnish matter for curious re Hordes of gipsies are met travelling in mark. In this country they have ob-caravans with patriarchal simplicity, tained their greatest and most perma-accompanied by herds of horses and nent settlements, and enjoy privileges horned cattle, and by bullock waggons and immunities which they possess in the women, grotesquely attired with no other region. They farm all the large head-dresses covered with a prodistilleries, and fabricate the pernicious fusion of gold and silver coins and barbeverages to which the Poles are, so baresque ornaments; the infants, naked largely addicted, from grain rendered as they were born, trudging at the more palatable and destructive by the heels of the cavalcadel; and the men, addition of the essential oils of fennel finely formed, but grisly and savage, and curraway seeds, which are mixed and half naked, with a loose jacket of with the wash previous to distillation. sheep-skin thrown across their shoulTheinns are all in the hands of Jews; and ders. they have the monopolies of peltry, the precious metals, diamonds, &c. as well From Brunn the route lies through as the principal share of the traffic in a fertile and well cultivated country, corn. Many of their richest families for four stages to Olmutz, or Holomauz, having affected to abjure their relithe capital of Moravia, and containing a gion and embrace Catholicism," have population of 11,000 souls. This city been ennobled, and become great land sheltered the Imperial family after the owners. Thus the noble houses of fatal battle of Austerlitz. A particular Ossolenski, Majerski, and Riviczinski, tribe of people called Hannacks inha- are all of Hebrew origin; and the au bit a tract of about 5 square German thor adds, mult to boon zog und miles near Olmutz. They are said to The enjoyment of liberty and civil rights be descended from the aboriginal Mo seems to have produced a strong effect ou ravians, and appear to be of the Scla- the physical constitution and physiognomy vonic race. They are short in stature, of this singular race; bestowing a dignity and strong and muscular; temperate and energy of character upon them which we may in vain look for in those of other simple in their habits, and in general countries. The men clothed in long black long lived they despise their neigh-robes reaching to their ancles, and some bours. The young women are remarkable for grace and elegance of form, and a picturesque costume. Dr. N. gives a pleasant account of them, as well as of the Moravian Brethren, which caste has also its primitive sent in this

quarter.

times adorned in front with silver agraffes, their heads covered, with fur caps, their chesnut or auburn locks parted in front, and falling gracefully on the shoulders in spiral curls, display much manly beauty Nay, I have frequently contemplated with astonishment many amongst them, whose placid, yet melancholy countenances, rePassing through a part of Silesia, our called strongly to my recollection the heads travellers entered Galitzia, or Aus- depicted by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, trian Poland, at Bielitz, where the asCarlo Dolce, and the earlier Italian painpect of the country changed froin the ters; and which, until I visited Poland, I cheerfulness of agriculture and cultiva-fine ideal forms of art. More than once an had conceived to exist only amongst the tion into a sombre and miserable ap- involuntary awe has seized me on contempearance; the log huts of the peasants plating on the shoulders of a Hebrew villa

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Near Jassy the travellers were met by a young Greek gentleman, sent by Prince Mourousi, the Hospodar of Mol davia, (who was not long after strahgled, by order of the grand Seignior) to welcome them. By him they were entertained in the oriental style. The population of Jassy (the Jassiorum, municipium of the Romans). consists of about 10,000 Greeks, Albanians, Russinns, Jews, and native Moldavians. The streets, instead of being paved, are laid with massive beams of wood. The situation is unfealthy, from the marsh effluvia of the numerous marshes round the city, which is also exposed to the ravages of troops of hungry wolves des scending during the long winter nights upon the inhabitants from the adjoining mountain forests. To repel these ferocious invaders, every family keeps a brace or two of fierce dogs, whose baying banishes sleep from all eyes but those of the citizens accustomed to the dinos

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the open air during the severe nights of The wine is exposed in immense butts to December, and when its watery particles

have become frozen by the cold, they perforate the cake of ice with a hot iron, and draw off the pure and vinous part highly concentrated. After this process the wine equals that of Hungary in strength and flavour.en boltei 191 50, fade

The country swarms with wild boars, deer, partridges, and hares; it is estimated that half a million of the latter are annually destroyed.

[We find the interesting matter of this part of the journey too copious to be conveniently comprised in our present Number, and therefore trust our readers will have no objection to see the words,]

To be concluded in our next)

HANNALS OF BANKS FOR SAVING. 18vo. pp. 190...

Among the many benevolent Institutions which have adorned the British character within the last twenty years, there is not one which so entirely meets the approba tion of the philosophical mind, one so absolutely free from objections to the political economist, as that of Saving Banks. The very purest of eleemosynary charities offer a bonus, more or less, to idleness; sap to a certain degree that noble spirit of independence, which be comes no order of the people so well as the inferior and labouring class; and make a breach in that principle of self-reliance, which is the firmest support of the social system, and which once broken in upon, soon becomes a total ruin.

Of the Saving Banks, all we need say in commendation is, that their effects are the very opposite of these; that they cherish industry, teach prudence, give security and

increase to the fruits of honourable exertion, encourage moral habits, and reward a youth of honest labour with an old age of respected comfort.

The present work is, we believe, from the pen of a gentleman of high commercial distinction, who, as a member of the House of Commons, took a leading part, with the late Mr. Rose, in the formation and regulation of these provident establishments. To the benefits he conferred on his country by so doing, he has now added another, of much utility, by publishing this manual of information on the subject. The facts and intelligence comprised in his volume are calculated to be essentially serviceable to the commu. nity, and we have pleasure in saying, that they are unmixed with schemes and theories, which might perplex the understanding, and rather mar than promote the object in view sistent

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Institutions in a national, and their inesti-section of the 10th (the 8th was published
mable advantages in a social point of view, by Schultens in his Historia Imperii vetus-
to serve as a manual of useful suggestions tissimi Joctunidarum) Having thus briefly
towards their establishment,constitution and announced this work, we have only to add,
management; and as a chronicle of the that M. Silvestre de Sacy, at the conclusion
great and successful exertions, which the of an elaborate eritique, highly recom-
philanthropy and patriotism of their found- mends it to the attention of all those who
ers have already made in this interesting study oriental literature. 54 585,
cause."
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Art. III.—An Heir in his old age, a Chinese
Drama, translated into English by Mr.
Davis,

We rejoice to observe, from the pro-
vincial Reports which it contains, how
prosperously the Saving Banks are going
on, wherever they have been established."

"ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL DES SAVANS"
FOR JANUARY 1818.

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The first article is an excellent one on Major Rennell's Illustrations of the History of the Expedition of Cyrus, which only its length induces us to defer. to dono Art. II. Historia præcipuorum Regnorum Arabum, &e By M. Rasmussen, Professor of Oriental Languages at Copenhagen.

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The history of the Arabs previous to the
foundation of Mahometanism is very im-
perfectly known, and it may be said that
we are wholly ignorant of it previously to
the third century of the Christian era.

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But the rarer the documents are which the Mussulmans have preserved of these ancient periods of the history of Arabia, the more important it is to publish them with translations, and to place them within the reach of all those who love to study the history of nations in its sources. Several fragments extracted from Tabari, Masoudi, Hamza Isfahani, Nowairi, Ebn-Cotaiba, and Abulfeda, have been already published by Ed. Pococke, Alb. Schultens, M. Eichorn, and M. Silvestre de Sacy. The pieces contained in the present volume are important addition to what we already possess of this

kind.

It is well known that M. Suhm, who
has done such service to the history of his
country; and to historical science in general,
became possessed of the manuscripts of
Reiske, after the
philologer. ToM.
of that celebrated
the publication of the

deae are indebted for

We shall not enter into a long account of this little volume, which such of our readers as interest themselves in Chinese literature have doubtless already seen, and which we recommend to those who have not seen it, as M. Remusat observes, Mr. Davis, who as a very entertaining production. Indeed, states that he has omitted a small number of passages, either grossly indecent or insupportably tiresome, seems to have made rather too much use of this licence, as the passages omitted would form nearly a third of the work. The indecent passages may indeed well be spared; but by omitting the others, the translator has in fact rendered the drama more animated, more conformable to our notions; but has at the same time deprived it of that native colouring, of that Chinese character, which it was essential to retain.

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Art. IV-Recherches Historiques et Cri

tiques sur les Mystères du Paganisme. Par M. le Baron de Sainte Croix.

This work having been first published in 1784, must be already well known to our learned readers. The first edition, however,

was not made by M. de St. Croix himself, indeed much dissatisfied with it; and was particularly displeased, that in the middle of the work a dissertation by M pressed, in Latin, an opinion wholly differAnse de Villoison was inserted, which exent from that which the author himself had expressed in French. M. Silvestre de Sacy, to whom the learned world is indebted for this second edition, has neglected nothing for the improvement of a work, of which only a very imperfect edition has hitherto appeared, and which the author since 1784 had not corrected and enlarged, as it me

rited....

and of Reiske's translation, a part of which only was published during his life; but not accompanied with the text, and without Art, V-Memoirs towards the History of notes. After the death of M. Suhm, Solitary Bees, of the species Halictus. Reiske's MSS. were deposited in the Royal By C. A. Walckenaer. Library at Copenhagen. Among them was The ingenious author of these memoirs (six a copy of several fragments of the work of in number) seems to have taken uncommon Hamza Isfahani, called Tarikh Alomam, or pains to acquire a thorough insight into the Annals of Nations. This copy was made habits of these insects; and the lovers of by Reiske from a manuscript in the library entomology are much indebted to him for of the University of Leyden. These are the light which he has thrown on one of the the fragments now published by M. Ra- most curious and most obscure parts of that mussen, who, after having studied Arabic in science. Naturalists await with impatience several of the German Universities, and the great work which he has in hand, relaafterwards improved himself at Paris in the tive to Spiders; which will be equally imknowledge of that language, has now a portant, and will likewise greatly advance Professorship of the Oriental Languages at the science of natural history. Copenhagen. The young editor has added Art. VI.Cours analytique de Littérature as fully answering its Latin and learned, Générale. Par Lemerciendofred to the text a chapters of lam za now pub. Meaning, to, take further notice of this work lished are the 6th, 7th, 9th, and the first on a future occasion, we pass it over here,

readily be

readily be felt that it is not con with the plan of the Literary Gazette to do more than call attention to a work of this nature; and we can declare, that it seems to us to be eminently worthy purpose, to spread more generallyed knowledge of the high importance of these

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THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
To the Editor.

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SIR, I have observed the notice you have taken of my Lectures, in common with the

The Diario Romano announces the arrival M. Fraehn, Professor in the University of of Father Angelo di Polli, a Franciscan Casan, is already known to the amateurs of monk, who has been twelve years as a the literature, and particularly of the Nu-missionary in Egypt. Among other curiosi-others, which have been delivered during dress or covering of a muminy, ornamented and beg to thank you for the encomiums ties which he has brought with him, are the the present season at the Royal Institution, with gilding, figures of birds and hiero- you are pleased to pass upon them, though glyphics. Under this dress there were feel they are but ill deserved... three rolls of paper, only two of which are From the candour I have universally ob-' in good preservation; they contain, as far served in your criticisms, I am sure you as can be observed superficially, some will not permit a report, which was incoraccount of the life of the deceased in hiero- rectly printed in your last Number, to glyphic characters. When these rolls shall stand uncontradicted before the public, esproperly unfolded and examined, as well pecially as it must at once declare my ignoas those which are in the Museum at Paris, rance of the subject upon which I was treatand which were also brought from Egypt, ing. I allude to your account of my last

misinatology, of the East, by the descrip
tion which he has given in Arabic, of
several coins of the princes of the dynasty
of the Samanides, and by the catalogue of
the most curious medals in the cabinet of
M. Potot, which has been published under
the title of Numophylacium Orientale Poto
tianum
Several other dissertations have
shewn, that he has profited by a residence
of several years in a country where an in-
tercourse with the Mussulman, Tartars, and
the monuments of the ancient power of the

'say,

Moguls, afford valuable assistance towards it is hoped that it will be possible to give a lecture, in which you make was accu

the study of the languages and history of the East. This work of M. Fraehn's is no less conspicuous than the former, for the variety and solidity of the knowledge, the judicious criticisin, and the excellent method which distinguish it. But as the principal subject is not very interesting, and we cannot enter into the details which constitute its real merit, we merely observe, that it treats on some silver and copper coins of the city of Bulgar. Mr. F. had designed to publish a dissertation on that ancient city; but circumstances having obliged him to defer this intention, he has thought it worth the while to publish the present dissertation separately. M. F. is appointed successor to the learned Tychsen, at Rostock; but will first pass some time at St. Petersburg, where the Academy has given him the honorable commission to class and describe the Oriental medals in its rich cabinet, from which we may justly expect a work of the highest importance.

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more detailed explanation of them. These
MSS. are the oldest that we are acquainted
with, and appear to be written in languages
that are entirely unknown.

LEARNED SOCIETIES.

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POLAR ICE.
PROFESSOR PARROT, in Dorpat, has
written on the freezing of the salt water,
in respect to the origin of the Polar Ice.
Though navigators say that the Polar
ice contains no salt, yet the author
thinks and proves that mere tasting
cannot decide the problem. If the ice
in the Polar regions contains no salt, it
cannot be frozen sea water, but ice of
glaciers, which cover the Pole of our

that the first time the variation
rately noticed was in 1575, when it was
found to be about 11° 50 east, that is to
say, the magnetic pole was so much to the
east of the north Pole of the earth," &c.
(See the passage alluded to, p. 154, of your
last paper.)

riation was first noticed by Norman in 1576,
What I stated was, that the magnetic va-
when it was 11° 15' to the east of London,
have been in that part of its revolution
consequently the magnetic pole must then
round the North Pole, which would pro-
duce this angle as viewed from London,
and not that the Poles were really so far
distant from each other. With respect to
the alteration in variation, it cannot with
any certainty be taken as you state, at about
12 degrees in 82 years, nor did I so express
myself, because from the year 1672 to 1780
the variation at London augmented in round
mimbers about 2 degrees in each year, while
for the last 38 years it has only increased
degree 2 minutes, it having been 23° 34′
the pre-
in 1790, while it is but 24 36′
sent time, and the period of 82 years which
you mention has arisen from a misconcep-
tion of my meaning. I stated a curious
coincidence which I had noticed, that from
1576, when the variation was first observed,
to 1657, when the line of no variation
passed London, was a period of 81 years
during which the eastern variation had de-
creased 11° 15', and that from 1657 to the
present year was very nearly double that
needle had acquired very nearly a double
quantity of western variation, víz. 24° 36';
and being now at its maximum, there was
every reason to suppose that the general
periods of increase and decrease were equal;
and should this prove to be the case, we
might expect the line of no variation to pass
England again in 161 years, or in 1979; but
as an entire traverse of the needle from the
extreme E. and W. points of variation had
not been observed since the variation was
discovered, it was impossible to come to
decisive e conclusions on this head.
I am, Sir,

The Propaganda has received accounts. from a Capuchin missionary, who has penetrated into the deserts of Bahia. After having travelled a long time, he met with a tribe of savages, who, being entirely secluded from all others, live more like brute beasts than rational creatures. Father Lu-earth, and to which our European gla-period, being 161 years, in which time the

dovico found himself surrounded by fiftythree savages, men and women. They were quite naked, and all armed with bows and arrows. The missionary endeavoured to concilate them by little presents; at length he inspired them with sufficient confidence to induce them to accompany him to the nearest habitations. He there baptized eight of their children, with the consent of their parents. Another monk having joined Father Ludovico, these two missionaries will attempt to penetrate farther into the interior of the country. This enterprise may be as advantageous to the sciences as to religion.

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A young Improvisatrice, named Rosa Taddei, is at this moment, the object of general admiration. She possesses all the

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THE FINE ARTS.

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION

No. 6.

No. CLXVIII. THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR.

L. Clennell. *******

We should have been very sorry to have had this old say applied to us, in consequence of our overlooking this modest and unassuming but highly meritorious work of art. The scene has all the appropriate circumstances attendant upon the removal

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of booths, barrels, bottles, and all the various et ceteras belonging to the business and furniture of a fair and they are executed in the best manner. A carpenter is in conversation with a countryman, which evidently relates to the price or materials for erecting the stalls, Women with their half-packed clothing and lumber are seated on the ground, and the horses stand ready

to remove the multifarious encumbrances of the motley mart. The management of light, shade, and effect, is judicious and clear. The countryman stands with his back towards the spectator; his smockfrock receiving the light, and conducting the eye to that point, This figure holds a dog which carries it off, and moderates in some degree the abruptness of its form. The general tone of colour is grave; a mass of trees receives the objects, and relieves the several characters which compose this clever group, while some patches of lively colour in the draperies in the foreground give spirit and vivacity to the whole, In short, nothing characteristic of the subject seems to be omitted,

XIII. A BOY EATING OYSTERS.-E. Childe

of congruity in the component parts. The
figure of Moses, for whom the surrounding
scenery and subordinate figures were created,
(we cannot believe he was made for them)
is the most mean and inferiora feeble
old man expressing a feeble resentment,
instead of the incensed messenger of God,
favoured race. The tables of the law are
and the great legislator of a peculiar and
broken, but row? They appear as if they
had been cut into skilful diagrams, or had
crumbled of their own accord under the
hand of time, not as if they had been dashed
in pieces by the holy fury of the angry pro
phet. Had we spoken of this work as a
landscape alone, we must have expressed
the warmest admiration of its general ef-
fect, and more especially of the beauty of
the distance, than which we never saw any
thing entitled to more unqualified approba-
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We hope his brother will not come, for
this picture is better without its fellow.
The fandscape is not in the true character
of its subject. Dark clouds, whence issue
bright lights, are not sufficient. There
should be more of gloom and obscurity to
accompany the dreadful question. There
is also something very puerile in conduct
ing a ray of light to a simple flower; the
incident takes from the character of the
piece, without adding any thing to the ge-
neral effect. The figure of Cain has much
of the frantic, but ought surely to have been
more elevated. Poetical licence would have
sanctioned this at any age of the world,
but it was absolutely necessary among
first of men." We have delivered our opi-
much talent displayed in these and in his
nion freely of this artist, because there is
other pictures, (Nos. 62. 198. and 290.)

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We must credit Mr. Green for a very pleasing composition, in which are thrown together a female, a glass of gold fish, and a cat. The lady occupies the center, and may be supposed to be placed there for the, purpose of defeating the fell and feline intentions of grimalkin, which are pretty eviepigraph about "home" and "philosophy dent. But what all this has to do with his we are at a loss to guess. We will take it for granted that the lady is at home, and intends to keep there, which certainly does require some philosophy on her part, considering the propensity to gadding so falsely attributed to the female character. The fishes are philosophers per force, and in their silence prove their relationship to the greatest of ancient schools. The cat is certainly an emblem of home, but not as here applied. Mr. Stothard, in his picture of the Deserted Village, has by a master-stroke, of this domestic animal-the cat remains imparted great interest by the introduction

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on the outside, of the closed door, while the mournful group, followed by the faithful dog, are taking their departure. This is an affecting incident. We repeat, the present is a very pleasing picture, but has too much of still life in the principal figure, and does not answer the motto under which it is painted. A little more vigour of pencil and character would improve it much.

XXXI. THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS. van derdeng up. H. Rogers.

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This may be a representation of the scene, but has in no other respect interest whether it is day or night; but fellows, like as a picture. We confess we cannot tell

us, who sit at home in their studies, have no right to criticise these dreadful frays.

XXXII. TORCH-LIGHT.-John Stevens.
This is a boy holding a torch, with some
CXCII. THE MILL.-George Jones, effect of light; but such a subject requires
We select this from the six subjects exhi-abler treatment to become worthy of much
notice. If Mr. S. aims to produce any
thing great in this way, he must study
Schalcken, and Wright of Derby,
XC, A VIEW FROM THE HARBOUR OF CON-
STANTINOPLE, &C. TAKEN IN 1816.

Had this artist been content to have placed his crabs, lobsters, and red herrings, on a stall, and left them to speak for themselves, we have no doubt they would have been properly appreciated. We acknowledge we have seldom seen any thingbited by Mr. Jones, because it does most of the kind, even from the pencils of the honour to his talent, though his sketches best Flemish masters, which go beyond shew some promise, and his cottages are them. Our painter has, however, unluckily very pretty. With regard to our selected brought the human form and countenance subject, as on the fairest surface the smallinto the piece; and his management of est spot is visible, so in the clearest and this part of his subject is every way the re- more perfect works of art, the least deviaverse of his still life. Hoping for his better tion from harmony and keeping is soonest judgment in future, we cannot help apply observed. A small speck throws the eye ing the lines of Mr. Hoppner on a similar from its repose; and it is thus that in this occasion: when speaking of the French truly beautiful picture of Mr. Jones, our first School, he sarcastically remarks, notice is of the bird, which seems to stick to the wing of the windmill, instead of being buoyant in the air, and separated from all solid objects. The woman coming down the slope is also a little too short. But with these trifling exceptions, evincing only that we look closest where we admire most, we are ready to bestow on this picture the meed of our highest approbation. It is indeed a delightful production. CCLXXXVIH. PHILOSOPHY AT HOME; OR

Where broad-cloth breathes, to talk where cushions strive,

And all but Sir and Madam are alive.

A few other performances, of pigs, goats, &c, by the same, are of considerable merit.

CCLXXXI. MOSES BREAKING THE TA-
BLES.-4. Aglio.

This historical landscape (we say so, though
its essential attribute is not very definite)
in which the figure of Moses is introduced,
has great merit the colouring is rich and
harmonious; and the forms, generally, of
a grand character. But here the charm
ends, as is often the case, through the want

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It is said that Michael Angelo, in giving his opinion of oil painting, said it was only fit for women; doubtless implying the faci lity with which inaccuracies might be obliterated. He painted in fresco, which admits of little or no alteration, and which requires not only celerity but correctness. In our day, with less severe notions, we are inclined to think differently of the practice, and when a female steps into this line of painting, she has, to our mind, gone out of the ordinary track, and given proofs of perseverance and resolution which are entitled to great praise. We have therefore much pleasure in paying a tribute to female talent in the performance before us, which would do credit to artists of higher professional name. In a scene of splendour and commercial activity, Miss M. has produced an effect of This her great object and her end.-Nugent. warmth and glow suitable to the climate.

DOMESTIC COMFORTS. James Green.

Man may for wealth or glory roam,
But woman must be blest at home;
To this should all her studies tend;

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