I observed several prisoners at the bars of the lower room, and inquired of an old German about the house, what might generally be their offences. They had been most of them speculating too much." It seemed hard thus to punish men for the ingenious use of their wits, so I begged a further explanation: they had been forging bank notes! This delicate definition reminded me of a farmer at Watertown, with whom we fell upon the subject of English deserters: "We don't want them here," said he," they are too familiar by half." Now, though I could readily believe of these my countrymen, that bashfulness had no part in them, it seemed an odd ground of complaint for a Yankey; so I repeated, something wonderingly, Too familiar!' Aye," rejoined he, they steal every thing they can lay their hands upon!!” Cleared land is here worth about 50 dollars per acre; uncleared 15 dollars.

Garden,' with cakes and refreshments | hanna appears to owe all its beauty to | is the general idol, and every thing in set out on the Table Rock," he continued the poetical imagination of our charm- morality is precise, and every thing in his route for Philadelphia. Even the ing poet, T. Campbell, for it presents religion dogmatic. From this unamiable first part of the frontier by Buffalo and no great variety of scenery, and the city, Lieut. Hall journeyed to WashingBatavia is becoming thickly settled. At town of Wilkesbarre, built on the site of ton, via Baltimore, which last contains the latter place the principal Inn is also Wyoming, is in a neighbourhood 50,000 inhabitants, of whom some are the Court House, Assembly Room, Pri- abounding in coal, always poor soil, possessed of the largest fortunes in the son, &c.; and Lieut. Hall tells us, where patches of pine, and scrub oak, and union ;-from 500,000 to a million of swamps covered with hemlock, are the dollars. The people are more polished realities of one of the most delightful and hospitable than the Philadelphians. and affecting descriptions in the English Washington offers nothing new for oblanguage. The story of Albert and Ger-servation; and the author, who is, as we trude is however still remembered; or have noticed, an enthusiast in the cause rather the incursion of the Indians, and of liberty, of course went to Mount Verthe massacre of the inhabitants (among non to pay his tribute to the tomb of the whom the lovers are creatures of the immortal individual whose name it bears. brain,) with the exception of those who He asked a German gardener, the Ciceescaped by swimming the river, and rone of the place, to conduct him to this flying naked through the woods for se- venerated spot :veral days, till they reached the nearest Dere, go by dat path, and you will settlement. Lieut. Hall objects to Mr. come to it," said he. I followed (adds Campbell's flamingos," "palm trees' Lieut. H.) the path across the lawn, to the shade," "aloes," and " roaring water-brow that overlooks the Patowmac, and falls:" of the three former there are no passing a kind of cellar in the bank, which examples in this district, and the cata- seemed to be an ice-house, continued my ract is merely a series of ledges of rock, found it: this cellar-like hole in the bank, search, but to no effect:-I had already hardly sufficient to break the current. closed by an old wooden door, which had Concerning Philadelphia, we do not never been even painted, was the tomb of find it necessary to extract much of Washington, with not a rail, a stone, or the detail. In the Museum there is a even a laurel to flourish o'er his grave. I collection of natural history, a line of stood for a moment overpowered with astoill-favoured portraits by a Mr. Rem-nishment and indignation. brandt Peale, and the skeleton of the Mammoth, or great Mastadon, discovered in the state of New York, 1801. The dimensions of this stupendous animal are given :

There is a road from Bath by the shores of the Crooked Lake to Jerusalem, the village of the elect Lady, Jemima Wilkinson, and her sect of Friends. A story is current in this part of the country, that having signified her intention of proving the truth of her mission by walking on the waters, and assembled her followers to witness the miracle, she asked them whether they truly believed in her ability to perform it, to which they unanimously replied they did." "Then," said she, the performance is unnecessary; " and so, as may be

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believed, they went their ways without it.

With all his fondness for the American character, Mr. Hall, in this portion of his tour, speaks with little affection of the girls who act as waiters, chambermaids, &c. at the inns upon the

road.

By these the traveller is received with a

From Washington to Richmond by the Shenandoah Valley is 394 miles, of various and generally picturesque scenery. At Shenandoah is a manufactory of small arms, where 10,000 stand are furnished yearly. A workman from Birmingham, employed there, said, They make as many in a week at Birming ham." Not far hence, near Harrisonburg, are "the Caves," a magnificent subterranean palace, reckoned 800 yards in length, and consisting of about fourteen apartments,

Height over the shoulders 11 feet; over the hips 9: length from the chin to the rump 15; and from the point of the tusks to the end of the tail, following the curve, 31-in a straight line 17 feet 6 inches. Width of the hips and body, 5 feet 8 inches; length of the longest vertebra, 2 feet 3 inches; of the longest rib, 4 feet 7 inches; of the tusks or horns, 10 feet 7 inches. Some low-browed, and studded with pointches; weight of the same, 4 lb. 10 oz. ; Circumference of one tooth, 1 foot 6 ined and glittering stalactites, like fairy grotand weight of the whole skeleton, 1000 lb. toes; others long and spacious, with roofs so lofty, that the summits of the massive congeto the ground, are shrouded in obscurity. The Academy of the Fine Arts, found-lations, which pillar-like descend from them The largest of these apartments, called Washington's Hall, is 93 yards in length, of a proportionate breadth, and, probably, 50 feet high. It is impossible to describe the clusters of stalactitic columns, many of solemn grandeur of this natural cathedral: them 10 or 12 feet in circumference, rise in magnificent order along the sides; their colour is of a glistening brown, with frequently a shaft, a pedestal, or an intercolumniation of a snowy whiteness.

cloudy sulkiness, or at least with phlegma-ed in 1805, by voluntary contribution,
tic indifference; their attendance is as me-
chanically cold as must have been that of
the domestic statues in Vulcan's household:
one would say water circulated in their
veins instead of blood. Do you inquire of
these damsels for refreshment, the odds are,
that you are answered by a kind of mony-
syllabic grunt, or some such delicate phrase
as "Mother, the man wants to eat; "—and
the eternal process of frying beefsteaks

and soon after incorporated by the legislature, does not appear to have as yet made much progress. Some Italian sculpture and casts, and a few of the Old Masters, with a large assortment of the modern, fill the hall. The latter are remarkable only for their size, as the artists in America, like some of their brethren in England, seem to think that to paint largely is to paint well; and much good colour and canvas are thereby lost. Society is in its infancy, and all that belongs to elegant literature, refined This is an amiable picture from the amusements, and the scavoir vivre, is pen of an admirer! Even the Susque-looked for in vain where Mammon

commences.

This unengaging manner seems the characteristic of the lower classes of American females. The married women are, I think, a shade sulkier than the single, but the difference is very trifling.

Fancy adds to this spectacle, and all sorts of figures are imagined, and named Washington's statue, Solomon's throne, &c. while the larger columns on being forcibly struck, give out from their hol

low bosoms a deep and melodious sound, which, heard in the remoter caverns, has the effect of fine music.

Near Lexington, in Virginia, another grand work of nature arrested the steps of the tourist :

elevated, so light, and springing up as it

were to heaven.

Having visited the tomb of the first President, the traveller had also an opportunity of paying his respects personally to the last, with whose polite reception, conversation, and residence at Monticello, he expresses himself in terms of high panegyric. Mr. Jefferson, it seems, is of opinion, that Britain, to which he is "not friendly," cannot be extricated from her financial embarrassments without some kind of revolution; his repugnance was strongly marked to the despotic principles of Buonaparte; and he has become partly a convert to the principle, that manufactures and machinery are as esessentially strength to a nation as agri

though we differ widely in our prepos-ever it relinquishes that course for party
sessions and sentiments from the writer or personal purposes, it may be assured
of this volume, it is but doing him jus- that it will lose all hold on public esti-
tice to say, that he furnishes us with mation, and all title to public encourage-
much valuable intelligence on all these ment.
points of inquiry, and is at once instruc-
tive in his facts and pleasing in his
manner.

The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Re-
view. No. I. 8vo. pp. 139.

Consistently with our own plan, we have introduced this novelty to our readers. Those addicted to harmony, and we trust the great majority are, for concord in other things as well as in music is a mighty smoother of the ways of life, will find in it (inter alia) some very good remarks on the Minor Key,-on the powers of Buildings upon the voice,—on the structure of the Italian Opera, -on the elements of Vocal Science,—on the Concert of Ancient Music, historically and critically examined,—and on the Logierian controversy, the writer being an anti-innovator. There are also several well-written and just strictures on the vocal powers of Braham, Incledon, Harrison, and Vaughan, and on the distinct styles in which they excel or have excelled. Harrison and Vaughan are represented as the Doric, Braham as the Corinthian in the art :-Incledon as a British column. Were we to pun on their architectural classification, we would give the Ionic capital to them all, on account of

its ears.

We can scarcely make any selection as an example of this publication; but an abridgment of its account of the Concert of Ancient Music, or King's Concert, may possibly be agreeable :

The Natural Bridge is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. The fissure just at the bridge is by some admeasurements 270 feet deep, by others only 205: it is about 45 feet wide at the bottom, and 90 feet at the top. The This is the first Number of a periodical bridge, over this gulf, is about 60 feet work, undertaken on the supposition that broad in the middle, but more at the ends, Music and its professors possess suffiand the thickness of the mass at the sum-cient public interest to create a demand mit of the arch about 40 feet. A part of for the quarterly notice of what is new this thickness is constituted by a coat of and curious in the science, and worthy earth, which gives growth to many large trees: the residue, with the hill on both of critical observation in those who sides, is one solid rock of limestone. The teach and practise it. We cannot tell arch approaches the semi-elliptical form; whether this belief is or is not well and though its sides are provided, in some founded, but from the specimen before parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few us, may fairly state, that if intelligence men have the resolution to walk to them, and and ability in the conduct of such a publook over into the abyss. From below the lication can obtain success, there is an view is sublime, of so beautiful an arch, so auspicious display of both in the new Musical Magazine. Although our own miscellany is one among the few which the Editor does us the honour to mention, as having bestowed more than the common attention upon the subject of music and musical exhibitions, we are free to confess that we are ignorant of any instance of even a stray essay, far less of any regular series of essays, upon this topic, entitled to the name of criticism, in any of the daily, weekly, or monthly productions which abound at the present era. Newspapers, devoted to a multitute of ing Italian Operas, and a fund of 50,000?. In 1720 a plan was formed for patronizsubjects of greater importance, can afford raised. George the 1st subscribed 10007., at best but a slight notice of this single and the Establishment was called the Royal branch of popular amusement; and even Academy of Music, consisting of a Goversuch Journals, Reviews, or Magazines, nor, Deputy Governor, and twenty Direcas embrace the more limited field of lite-tors. From 1720 to 1727, musical disputes rature and the arts, can occupy only a run very high, and the battles of HanWe have, we hope, presented enough small portion of their space with the zoni, were the mania of that epoch. To del and Buononcini, and Faustina and Cuzof this publication to shew its quality, record and discussion of one of the least preserve the compositions which excited and shall therefore leave off where we scientifically and philosophically cultivatso deep an interest, and which were likely now are, without entering Richmond or ed studies in the whole circle of their la- to be lost owing to the contentions to Charleston, or analysing an Appendix of bours. And even were the desire to which they had given birth, the Earl of Sandconsiderable information. Though Ame- treat this enchanting science as great as wich, in 1776, projected the establishment of rica offers none of those things which its own fascinations, there would still be an Institution for the performance of “Aumost interest the mind-the relics great obstacles in the way of its gratifica- cient Music only," and this Concert was begun of venerable antiquity, the structures tion; obstacles, in which indeed the writ-blemen and Gentlemen. The band was led by which time has hallowed, the scenes ers in this Quarterly Review must share. which history has immortalized-though We allude to the extent of practical init is as it were but a country of yester- formation which is necessary in order to day, destitute of the associations which form a fit critic, and, supposing that inages of civilization produce-there is yet formation to exist, the difficulty of findmuch to attract the attention of mankind ing its possessor unwarped by the jealoueven in its newness, and much more sies, the feuds, and the theories, which in its prospect of futurity. It occupies involve the musical world. Such, it is a distinguished place in the world of be hoped, will turn out to be the distinct our day, and deserves to be contem-acquirements of the new candidate for plated with a knowledge of its situation, favour:-as far as we can observe, it is feelings, resources, and objects. And fair, independent, and impartial; and if

culture.

under the direction of a Committee of NoMr. Hay, Mr. Nofree was principal second, the violoncellos were Messrs. Crosdel and Paxton: the vocal performers, Miss Harrop (afterwards Mrs. Bates,) Miss Abrams and Miss Theodosia Abrams; Master Harrison, the eminent tenor of subsequent years; the Rev. Mr. Clark, the tenor; Mr. Dyne, the coun.er tenor; and Mr. Champness, the that no composition of less than twenty bass singer. The fundamental rule was, years standing should be performed: the subscription 5 guineas for 12 weekly concerts, and the room in Tottenham Court

IMPERIAL TOURISTS.

ex-education of the sons of poor citizens, where these children are maintained, clothed and taught. This establishment was founded in the reign of James the Sixth, by a goldsmith, who bequeathed his whole property, amounting to 23,6251. sterling for the purpose. This capital, which then brought in 10 per cent, increased in twenty years to 70,5857. and has greatly augmented since that time.

Tour of their Imperial Highnesses the
Archdukes John and Lewis of Austria.

(Edinburgh continued.)

The building is of considerable extent, and resembles an old castle: a hundred and seventy boys are educated in it; they are taught reading, writing, arithmetic andLatin. Those who are to prosecute their studies at the Universty receive 101. a year for four years, and those who learn a business receive 301. when they leave the house. They are received from the age of seven to that of ten years, and they remain on the esta blishment till their fourteenth year. The children look cheerful and healthy; their rooms are kept clean and in good order.

Road the place of meeting. Under these | Its capital now produces 6781. per aun. regulations the Concert of Ancient Music elusive of benefits and subscriptions. lasted till 1785, when their Majesties and the Princesses gave it a new impulse by regularly attending, till the period of the Sovereign's lamented indisposition. Hence it was called The King's Concert,' and His Majesty's band, and the boys of the Chapel Royal, who assisted in the chorusses, wore their full dress livery. The private band have, however, been discontinued since the The distillation is made in four large King's illness. In 1785, the subscription retorts, or rather kettles; they are not was raised to six guineas to about 400 sub- above three or four inches deep, and have scribers, and Mara and Billington appeared. lids, which afford an easy issue to the In 1787, Rubinelli and Storace; in 1788, smoke. The malt which has already ferMarchesi; in 1792, Miss Poole, now Mrs.mented is put into the two largest; to preDickons; in 1794, Roselli, the last instance vent its burning, it is kept in constant moof degraded nature that has visited this tion by means of metal chains, which are country; in 1795, Banti and Bartleman; stirred about at the bottom of the kettle. in 1800, Miss Jackson and Miss Tenant, Each of these retorts contains from 9 to now Mrs. Bianchi Lacy and Mrs. Vaughan; 10,000 gallons. The instrument to stir the in 1805, Grassini; in 1807, Mrs. Ashe, malt is set in motion, like the mills, by the Mrs. Mountain, and Mr. Bellumy; in 1910, steam-engine. The greatest care must be Catalani; in 1814, Miss Stephens; in 1815, taken that the retort does not remain dry a Opposite to this establishment stands Mrs. Salmon; in 1816, Sessi; and in 1817, moment, it is therefore constantly filled up. similar one, founded by George Watson, Camporese and Fodor made their several A great fire is kept up under it. A retort for the sons of merchants and tradesmen. debûts on this distinguished musical thea- which contains 43 gallons, distils in two The city coutains also two establishments of tre. In the last season, Mrs. Vanghan minutes and three quarters, without hurt- the sanie kind for girls, besides many hos(whose elopement from her husband and fa- ing the brandy, which flows in a large and pitable and benevolent institutions. In one mily is the topic of scandal at this moment) rapid stream. The coolers are of wood, of these, patients whose cases do not require Miss Stephens, the Misses Travis, Messrs. and stand out of the house. The brandy, them to be admitted into the hospital, can Vaughan, Bradbury, Duruset, Hawes, W. after being once distilled, is raised by receive medical advice and medicines gratis Knyvett, Goss, Gore, Bellamy, and Bartle- pumps, worked by men, into two other re-four times a week. man, led by Cramer, and conducted by torts, where it is distilled a second time. Greatorex, have formed the company. In The distillery furnishes daily 3000 gallons 1792, the Prince of Wales and Duke of of rectified brandy. Barley and Spelt are York became subscribers; the former the species of corn used The brandy is withdrew in 1814, after being 3 years a di- put into large casks, which are ganged by rector. In 1795 the Concert was removed an excise officer, for the levying of the to the Opera House, and in 1804 to Hano- duties. An idea may be formed of the exver Square, where it has since continued, tent of this distillery, when we are told though with a change of the position of the that the duties paid by the proprietors orchestra, from one end of the room to the amount to 300,000+ sterling per annum. other, said to have been very detrimental The produce of this distillery is entirely to the sound and effects of the music. La consumed in England. The same distillery 1805, the Subscribers amounted to 735 at is not allowed to work for two kingdoms, 7 guineas each; raised next year to eight. it must choose between them: those which For the last ten years the number of pa- work for England, pay here (in Scotland) but trons has fluctuated between 650 and 700. small duties; but on the other hand they bear all the English duties. The Scotch distillers are distinguished for their skilfulness in the rapid boiling and evaporation of the fluid; and they effect this by the use of broad and shallow vessels. In proportion as the government raises the duty on the kettles, they are made of larger dimensions, so that more brandy is distilled without paying a higher duty. This distillery is the property of two brothers, who have employed a very large capital in it.

Except in harmonized airs, the standing rule for compositions of 20 years of age has never been relaxed; so that this is really the National Depository of scientific principles in Music. Still four hours of this recreation is by most persons deemed too heavy for a relaxation; and though Handel, Marcello, and Jomelli, present us with grandeur of design, purity of expression, and all that is learned in style, the close attention they require to be apprehended and felt, gives us rather the idea of a collegiate institution than of a place of amusement. Nothing indeed can surpass the precision and skill of the orchestra-the chorusses are unequalled-and a severity of judgment is exercised throughout the whole, which renders this Concert the Ark of pure Harmony. Since 1733 a thirteenth Concert has been added for the benefit of the "Fund for the support of decayed Musicians and their families," set on foot by M. Festing, a German Professor resident in London, assisted by Dr. Morrice Green.

*

From the manufactory of Messrs. Younger and Co. we went to the building called Herriot's Hospital; which, however, is not an hospital, but an establishment for the

* Spelt is not a species of corn, but any species split.-ED.

+ The German editor of the Frinces' notes, thinks that the 10,000 gallons mentioned as the contents of a retort or copper should be 1600; and in the sum that a similar addition of a cipher by the tram eher has caused 300,000 to be mentioned as the duty paid instead of 30,000. which he thinks more likely.

The New College, in which is the University, lies in the Old Town. The old building being too small, they are erecting a new one, which will be very handsome and extensive, and for which Parliament has granted the annual sum of 12,0007. sterling for six years.

This University was founded in the reign of James the Sixth, in the year 1581. At the beginning, the number of professors was small; but the city magistrates took great pains to procure distinguished men, and the flourishing state of the University was the happy result of their exertions. In the year 1789, the number of the students amounted to 1100; it has since annually increased, and at the time of our visit it was 1708. Doctors Black, Cullen, Blair, and Robertson, have done honoar to this University. At present it has among its professors of the mathematics Mr. Leslie, celebrated for his fine experiment on the freezing of water, by evaporation in vacuum; Mr. Jameson, professor of natural philosophy, is a pupil of our celebrated Werner; Mr. Hope, professor of chemistry, has always between five and six hundred hearers. Mr. Dugald Stuart, the professor of philosophy, was in the country: we heard a great deal in praise of him, and also of Mr. Coventry, the professor of agri

culture.

A house was building for the Academical Museum,of which the collections are indeed crowded into too small a space. There is in this museum a fine mammoth's head, and a remarkable collection of Scotch birds. The mineralogical collection is unusually rich, and possesses, among other things, a fine series of the volcanic products of

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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

which it hurled, whizzing like sky-rockets, into the air. This lasted about 15 minutes. A silvery stripe, in the shape of a tunnel, the point of which was turned towards the earth, was now formed in the middle of this Air Spout, which began at its top, and almost reached the centre. This silvery stripe contracted itself several times, and at last entirely disappeared. After this phenomenon, which had continued almost three quarters of an hour, the Air Spout again began to move forward, and, in the back ground, a splendid rainbow appeared, which formed, as it were, a bridge over the colossal pillar. Meantime vivid lightning and constant thunder issue from the clouds, which were partly black and partly reddened by the fiery pillar. The phenomenon, which much resembled a volcano, then proceeded slowly to the Galgenberg, near Gistbenitz, from which the observers were driven by a shower of sand and

stones.

REMARKABLE PHENOMENON. M. C. Hallascka, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Prague, has published a description of the effects of an Air Spout (so he calls it in contradistinction to Water Spout) which happened on the 10th of May, on the Here the fiery phenomenon was changed estate of Prince Joseph Von Lobkowitz. into a cloud of dust, which proceeded from After three weeks continuation of a degree this mountain to Gistbenitz, where it unof heat very uncommon in April, and dur-roofed the building, broke and uprooted

mary than we could place in this Journal.* | saying, that the opinions of the author on
We must, however, point out to our readers the causes and effects of the events which
the principal articles contained in these he relates, have never any influence on the
five volumes. They are-In the 12th, the ad- fidelity of his narrative; the excellent notes
ministration of Peter de Medicis at Florence; which he has given on the merits, the de-
his ambition, his infidelity, and his exile; fects, and the characters of some writers,
the religious and political harangues of Sa- make the reader regret that he has not com-
vonarola; his ephemeral credit, and his pleted this task, but has excluded from his
horrible punishment; the revolt of the work every thing like a grand prelude of
Pisans against the Florentines; the in- literary history, referring to his own work
trigues of Louis Sforza and other Italian on the literature of the South of Europe,
princes to draw Charles VIII. into Italy; and to M. Gingueni's History of Italian
the flights and abdication of Alphonso II. Literature.
king of Naples; the dispersion of the army
of his sucessor, Ferdinand II.; the league
formed at Venice in 1495, for the indepen-
dence of Italy, which soon forced Charles
VIII. to repass the Alps. In the 13th vol.
the efforts of the Neapolitans, and still
more of the Venetians, to assist Louis XII.;
the revolt of the Genoese against that Prince;
the military exploits of Alviano; the league
of Cambray concluded in 1508 against
Venice; the defeat of the troops of that
republic at Vaila or Aignadel. In vol. 14,
the fortitude of the Venetians in their re-
verses; the return of the Bentivoglios to
Bologna; their flight, and the rigorous treat-ing which the sky was constantly serene, a
ment of their partisans; the administration natural phenomenon, of a singular and ter-
of Soderini at Florence; his discredit, and rible description, took place in the estate
the recal of the Medicis; the confederacy of Gistebnitz, near the town of the same
of the Pope, the King of Spain, and Venice, name, in the Circle of Tabor. On the 10th
against the French in 1511; the triumph of May (Whitsunday,) about 4 o'clock in
of the family of Fregoso over that of the the afternoon, the sky being perfectly clear,
Adorni at Genoa; the alliance of Francis I. thunder clouds suddenly rose in the East,
with the Venetians; the defeat of the which rapidly inveloped the whole East and
Milanese and the Swiss at Marignan; the South of the heavens. The West and North
death of Alviano; the enterprises of the sides of the horizon remained unclouded,
Duke of Urbino on Tuscany and the and the heat of the sun continued to be
March of Ancona. In vol. 15, the ravages very oppressive. About 5 o'clock the West
committed in Italy by the Imperial army; wind became more violent, and rapidly
the military skill and the death of Prosper alternated with the East, so that violent
Colonna; the success and the treachery of conflicts between the two winds was per-
Pescara; the defeat of Francis I. at Pavia;ceived, which is shewn also by the direc-
the terror inspired by Charles V. into all
the Italian states; the variable negotiations
and the instability of the treaties in the
year 1526; the taking and the pillage of
Rome, in May, the year following the
death of Lautree before Naples, and the
capitulation of his army; the revolution
effected at Genoa by Andrew Doria, after
having abandoned the French party for that
of the Emperor; the absolute power ob-
tained by the latter, with the aid of Clement
VII. over all Italy, and the efforts of the
Florentines, notwithstanding the plague
which afflicts their city, to secure their in-
dependence by a new political organization.
Lastly, in the 16th volume, the invasion of
their territory, in 1530, by the Prince of
Orange; the death of that Prince; that of
Ferucci, his valiant adversary; the perfi-
dious manœuvres of Malatesta Baglioni;
the capitulation of the city, and the subju-
gation of the republic. We would willingly
dwell longer on this important work, but
our limits will not allow of our so doing; we
cannot however conclude without repeating
the praise which we before bestowed, by

These Tables fill, in the four volumes, 179 pages in 8vo. closely printed.

tion in which the corn is laid. During this
conflict there was formed among the clouds,
which grew blacker and blacker, and
through where the lightning flashed, a dark
opake pillar (or Air Spout,) the diameter
of which was above 20 fathoms, and which
rose in a whirlwind from the earth to the
clouds, which hung very low. The Air Spout
thus formed, committed dreadful ravage in
the fields, carrying with it in its course, or
scattering all around, stones, sand, and
earth, and continued its progress, with a
hollow sound, towards the East. By the
refraction and reflection of the sun's rays
falling from the West on the pillar of dust,
it looked like a column of fire that red-
dened the clouds. Thunder claps being
heard at the same time, the inhabitants of
the neighbouring places hastened to the
spot with fire engines. A mile from the
fields of Kriwoschin, where, properly
speaking, the terrible scene began, the fiery
column stopped over a fallow field and
again began to rage.
This terrible pillar
of fire revolved with incredible rapidity in
a circle, sometimes horizontally, sometimes
vertically, shot forth red scorching beams,
and furrowed the ground, which it tore up,
and with it stones several pounds in weight,

fruit trees, and scorched the leaves of the trees as it passed by. A shower of sand, clods of earth, branches of trees, sand, corn, wood, boards, and stones, threw the inhabitants of Gistbenitz into the greatest consternation, which was naturally augmented by the increasing terrors of the lightning, thunder, and torrents of hail that succeeded. This torrent of the largest hail did great damage in its progress over Boratin, Kamenalhotta, Gistbenitz, and Woparzan. The little town of Bernatitz has suffered the most, as not only all the corn is destroyed, but all the roofs and windows dashed to pieces by the lumps of ice, weighing from two to three pounds, which fell in incredible quantities. At the same time there fell in the Lordship of Kaunitz, in the Circle of Kauryim, such a prodigious quantity of hail, that all the ditches and hollow places were full on the fifth day after. At Prague we saw, towards the East, the dreadfully black clouds which threatened a destructive tempest, but did not affect us. The barometer fell the succeeding days much below the mean height of the mercury. The temperature of the air gradually cooled, so that the

thermometer of Reaumur at sun rise, on

the 31st of May, was only at 3 degrees of heat. This Air Spout is, in the chief particulars, like that which was observed on the 30th of August 1806, at Palma-Nova in the Venetian Frioul.

LEARNED SOCIETIES.

OXFORD, JUNE 27.

On Wednesday the 24th inst. Mr. Charles Burlton was admitted Scholar of New College.

On Thursday the 25th inst. the following degrees were conferred