Doctor in Menicine.-William Montgomery Boyton, B.M. of St. Alban Hall. Doctor in Civil Law.-The Hon. Heneage Legge, B. C.L. Fellow of All Souls' College.

Bachelor in Divinity.-The Rev. Michael Rowlandson, M.A. of Queen's College. Masters of Arts.-Rev. John Kingdon Cleeve, of Balliol College, Grand Compounder; Rev. George Chisholm, Rev. David Davies, Rev. Francis Gottwaltz, of Worcester College; Rev. Henry Jones, of Jesus College; Henry Wellesley, Esq. Student of Christ Church; Rev. Godfrey Everth, of Trinity College; Rev. James Lampen Harris, Rev. James Yonge, Fellows of Exeter College; Rev. Thomas Griffith Roberts, of Brasennose College. Bachelor of Arts.—Mr. Frederick Charles Spencer, of Christ Church.

On Friday, the 26th inst. the following degrees were conferred:

Doctor in Divinity.-The Rev. Michael Rowlandson, of Queen's College, and Vicar of Warminster, Wilts.

Bachelor in Divinity. The Rev. James Jacob Parsons, M.A. Fellow of Magdalen College.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

in France, by a Monsieur Baget, who gave | ing with gold and precious stones, they can
it the name of Moiré Metallique or Metal- have no idea of the magnificence of these
lic Watering. Another Frenchman, near articles. By a skilful contrast of colours,
Brussels, however, contests the palm of one table seemed ore inlaid with pearl-
originality; and, in truth, the principle has another verd antique bedded in silver-a
long been one of the least secrets either in third malachite studded with gems.
chemistry or metallurgy, though we believe We cannot presume to say whether these
its useful application is entirely new. It productions will endure the wear and tear
depends simply upon the action of acids, of use, better or worse than the materials
whether pure or mixed, and in different which their superior beauty recommends
degrees of solution, on alloys of Tin. The them to supersede. It is probable that they
common Vitriolic Acid, we believe, an- will turn out to be at least as lasting as the
swers the purpose as fully as any other finer kinds of cabinet-work, for they may
more expensive acid agent. The process be hammered without injury. At any rate
we find described in the public prints is as
the substitution of a new plate, for one spoilt
follows: "Dissolve four ounces of Mu- by carelessness or bad treatment in any
riate of Soda in eight ounces of water, and piece of furniture, must be much more
and two ounces of Nitric Acid :- -or 8 oz. cheap and convenient, than the renewal of
Water, 2 oz. Nitric Acid, and 3 oz. Muria- the whole, if made of elegant and costly
tic Acid-or 8 oz. Water, 2 oz. Muriatic woods. With these advantages we expect
Acid, and 1 oz. Sulphuric Acid. Either of soon to find that crystallized tin will cut
these mixtures is to be poured warm upon a conspicuous figure in our most superbly
a sheet of tinned iron, placed upon a vessel furnished rooms, as well as be introduced
of stone-ware; it is to be poured on in se-into general use in well-furnished houses.
parate portions, till the sheet is completely There can be no objection to the original
watered; it is then to be plunged into poverty of the material,-in its new guise
water, slightly acidulated and washed." | it would never be suspected for poor Tin;
The operation is completed by drying. and we were informed, that the price of a
The meanest tin pan in our kitchens, sheet, about the size of a sheet of letter-
submitted to this casy process, instead of paper, was half a crown, so that though not
its pallid metallic surface, imitates mother of a very expensive article, it will yet be suffi-
pearl in its tone of colour, and shoots forth ciently costly to merit the attention of
into an infinitude of figures and reflections, those who think nothing valuable or beauti-
equal to enamel, and full of rich variety in ful, but what cannot be purchased except
design. By subjecting the iron to different at a considerable price.
degrees of heat, the variety of the forms
is increased; some parts are granular;
others are like architectural ruins; others
grand natural phenomena of wood, and
mountain, and cataract; others a silvery
sunset darting rays along the expanse;
others simple leaves and flowers; others
cubes, cones, and all that geometry em-
braces; in fine, there is no shape which the
imagination can conceive that accident may
not produce in these exquisite sports of che-
mical power.

The granular appearance is obtained to the greatest perfection, by pouring one of the above mixtures, cold, upon the tinned iron plates heated to a red heat :* the radiated and star-like resemblances are best procured from copper tinned.

Of course great improvements will hereafter be made on an art as yet in its infancy, and there is no predicting to what perfection this already admirable discovery may be carried

The Acid has in one instance been applied to an Urn; and notwithstanding the difficulty of laying it on a surface, not only not fiat, but comprising every variety of carve, the unattractive vessel became an unique and splendid ornament to the tea-table. It is hence evident, that mouldings, cornices, &c. may be composed of these diversified specimens; the effect of which in grand or tasteful apartments would be unparalleled. We understand that some paltry initations have been attempted in London, and not to speak of their injury to a patent right, they are hurtful to the invention by giving a miserable idea of that to which no description of ours can do justice, since, however strong the terms of eulogy we employ, they fall short of the impression made upon us by the view of this curious, charming, and really astonishing production.

CRYSTALLIZATION OF TIN. Many of our readers are doubtless aware of the novel application of this beautiful process to articles of ornament and furniture, but it is not so generally known as to prevent the account of it from possessing considerable interest and curiosity. Through the politeness of Mr. Brunel, of Battersea, the ingenious inventor of many mechanical improvements of the most important class, we have been allowed the very gratifying inspection of the Tin Plate Manufactory, now carrying on under his direction and the patent of Mr. Shaw, of London. Those who have not seen this manufactory can form no conception of the extraordinary splendour and magnificence of its products The raw material is so little allied to what mankind call rich or graceful, or superb, that it seems a more than common magic, which converts the pale and paltry plate of The natural result of the crystallization white Tin into all the gorgeous colours of is, as we have stated, to produce a surface the most brilliant metals, of silver, and gold, of the shade of Mother of Pearl. The hues and pearl, and opal, and emerald, and of gold, of blue, green, &c. are effected by phire. Sach, however, without exaggera- varnishes, laid on in a peculiar manner, and tion, is the effect of this fortunately disco- rubbed to the utmost degree of polish by And not only is it susceptible the soft part of the human hand. This afof taking all tints and colours in the high-fords an excellent occupation for females, est polish, but of assumiug all the forms of and we saw with pleasure several women beauty, radiations, stars, columns, angles, pursuing the easy labour at Mr. Brunel's The would-be philosophers that conduct the semblance of every species of vegeta-Factory. In other apartments we were per- some of the periodical journals of the tion; in short, when we say that it exhibits mitted to visit the workmen employed in present time, seem to take delight in deall those shapes which crystals have in any manufacturing the plates into various arti-tracting from the merit of every man, state, and in general resembles such ap- cles of furniture, such as ladies' work- whether in the world of science or of letters, pearances as frost causes on panes of tables, cabinets, inkstands, caddies, &c. &c. and by so doing endeavour to bring them glass, our readers will conceive that there and unless our readers can fancy such down to the level of their own shallow atis an endless and fanciful variety of charm- things in the palaces of fairy tales, glitter- tainments, and to convince the world that ing combinations. * This is stated, but we have not ascertained there is nothing new under the sun, behow the tinning is maintained on red-hot iron, cause they are unable to produce any thing so as to be subject to the process.-ED.

vered art.

sap

The new art was, we are informed, discovered accidentally about three years ago,

THE KALEIDOSCOPE.

that is so. It therefore becomes us to un

We are led to these reflections from the attacks that have been made on the ingenious Doctor Brewster respecting his Kaleidoscope, and the attempts to ascribe the merit of that discovery to Bradley and others.

The first supposed anticipation of the Kaleidoscope was found in Prop. 13 and 14 of Professor Wood's Optics, where the author giver a mathematical investigation of the number and arrangement of the images formed by two reflectors, either inclined or, parallel to each other. This theorem assigns no position either to the eye or to the object, and does not even include the principle of inversion, which is absolutely necessary to the production of systematic forms. The theorem is true, whatever be the position of the object or the eye. The next supposed anticipation is that of Mr. Bradley in 1717, which seems most to have

attracted attention. The instrument then

invented is formed thus: two large pieces of silvered looking glass, five inches wide, and four inches high, jointed together with hinges, and opening like a book. These plates being set upon a geometrical drawing, and the eye placed in front of the mirrors, the lines of drawing were seen multiplied by repeated reflections. This instrument was described, long before Mr. Bradley introduced it, by Kircher and Ozanam, and therefore no new light was thrown on the science of optics. The difference of this instrument and the Kaleidoscope is so great, that contrasting the properties of the two will be the best arguments that can be used to prove the invention of Doctor Brewster new. The annexed Contrast has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Institution, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and was, we imagine drawn up by Dr B. himself, or his friend Professor Playfair.

7. In Brewster's the eye is placed so that these defects are invisible.

'e

6. In Brewster's the which it belongs, ever exhibited. W secondary reflections speak doubtingly, but perhaps a more beauare removed, and there-tiful and picturesque period of the day fore no confusion takes might have been chosen,-either morning, place. with its fervent glow of sky, or evening, with its gorgeous colours. As a panoramic effect we have seen many more illusive; for example, that of Paris, previously shewn in the same room, which approached the achievement of a visual deception. In the present case, however fascinating, the canvass is still only a large picture, and though we may acknowledge its likeness, we are in no danger of fancying ourselves at Athens while we contemplate it. Mr. Haygarth's Views, which form a part of the fine illustrations of Walpole's Memoirs reLiterary Gazette, Nos. 47, 48, and 53) lative to European and Asiatic Turkey (see convey an almost equally sufficient idea of this classic region. Still from its being executed on so large a scale, from its being ably coloured, and from its management in entitled to the notice of the curious, and as perspective, this Panorama is eminently such we have thought it our duty to devote a column to the task of briefly recommending it to the public.

It is worthy of remark, that in this comparison the two instruments are always supposed to be applied to geometric lines upon paper, and that is the only purpose to which Bradley ever thought of applying his mirin its application, and may be used for inrors. The Kaleidoscope is extended further ferior purposes, and gives true symmetrical forms to objects which the other instrument is incapable of doing.

When we attempt to employ Bradley's have been so much admired in the Kaleidosinstrument to produce the effects which cope, that of producing beautiful forms from transparent or opaque coloured objects contained in a cell, and at the end of the reflectors, it fails so entirely, that no person has succeeded in the attempt.

THE FINE ARTS..

PANORAMA: VIEW OF ATHENS.

LITHOGRAPHY.

The favourable opinion of this art expressed by Göthe twelve years ago, on the publication of Albert Dürer's prayer-book from the original designs, has been amply justified by its success at Munich, the birthThis Panorama, exhibiting in the Strand, place of the invention. The collection of is painted by Messrs. Barker and Burford, Strixner, Piloti and Company, after drawand from the classic interest attached to ings in the possession of the King of Bathe subject has excited much attention. varia, amounting to seventy-two numbers, We presume that it is an accurate copy of is generally known. The work published the scene, not only from its agreement under the care and direction of M. Von with such sketches as we have seen of it, Manlich, Inspector of the Gallery, after but from the testimony of late travellers, paintings belonging to His Majesty, a work and the circumstance of its having (as we hitherto unique in its kind, has met with are informed) been purchased by the Uni-merited approbation. But Lithography is versity of Oxford at the price of one thousand pounds, to be preserved as a strument, the length is strument the length of lasting ornament to that fearned Institu

1. In Bradley's in

less than the breadth of the plates.

3. In Bradley's instrument, from the er

1. In Brewster's in

the plates must be four
or five times their
breadth.

3. In Brewster's the eye is placed so that the uniformity of light is a maximum, and the last sectors are distinctly

tion.

now actually employed there upon a really magnificent work. M. Von Schlichtegroll, Secretary-general to the Academy of Mu nich, is publishing the Book of TournaThe drawings from which this Panorama ments of Duke William IV. of Bavaria, in is constructed, were taken from the most 34 admirably coloured drawings, most care2. Bradley's instru- 2. Brewster's cannot elevated part of the Museum Hill, a point fully painted by Hans Schenk, armourist to ment can not be used be used without a tube. whence all the interesting objects in the that Prince, from all the tournaments unwith a tube. vicinity of Athens could be seen; and it dertaken by his master. The whole work therefore exhibits a striking representation will be published in eight numbers, each of the existing state of these glorious anti- of which will contain four large coloured quities and the surrounding landscape. The plates, with the editor's illustrations and crowned with the celebrated Parthenon, or lished. The title page, which is also ad rnmost prominent objects are the Arcopolis, remarks. The first number is already pubTemple of Minerva, and the monument of ed with lithographic ornaments, is as follows : Philopappus. The latter is raised into this "The Book of Tournaments of Duke Wildegree of consequence from its relative liam the fourth of Bavaria, from 1510 to situation near the eye, while the stupendous 1545, faithfully copied in Lithographic encolumns of the Temple of Jupiter Olym-gravings, by Theobald and Clements Senepius are, from their distance, apparently felder, after a manuscript of that time in less considerable. The landscape is en- the Royal Library at Munich, accompanied riched with figures of Albanian soldiers, with illustrations by Frederick SchlichteGrecian women dancing the Romaika, the groll." goats of Attica, &c. &c.

roneous position of the eye, there is a great inequality of light in the

sectors, and the last sectors are scarcely visible.

4. In Bradley's instrument the figure consists of elliptical, and consequently unequal

sectors.

5. In Bradley's instrument the unequal sectors do not unite, but are all separated from one another by a space equal to the thickness of the mirror glass.

visible.

4. In Brewster's all the sectors are equal, and compose a perfect circle, and the picture is perfectly symmetrical. 5. In Brewster's the equal sectors all unite into a complete symmetrical figure.

As a work of art we consider this production to be one of the most highly finished and pleasing paintings, of the order to

This first number contains four combats, the first of which Duke William, still a minor, had at Munich with a Count Von Ortenburg, the second in Augsburg,

with the Count Palatine Frederic, in 1510. The two following tourneys took place at Munich, with three knights, Hans Von Preising, Wolf Count Von Montfort, and Lienhard Von Lichtenstein. The execution of the helmets and the armour in gold and silver are extremely ingenious; the representation of the combat itself, of the plumes of feathers, the caparisons, &c. of the horses, with devices and arms embroidered on both sides, is very characteristic. Fac-similes are given of the inscriptions on every plate, and in general every part of the work is executed with scrupulous fidelity. With respect to the metallic colours, a particular process is employed to lay them on fast; the gold or silver being laid upon the paper by means of models, and then drawn under the press; after this comes the printing of the Lithographic outlines, then the colouring.

M. von Schlichtegroll is much to be commended for his determination not to allowthis book of Tournaments to be merely an amusement for the eyes, but to join to it as complete a history as possible of these shows, which are such an important feature of the times of Chivalry, and thus to give a very instructive contribution to the history of mankind. He intends to treat this matter thoroughly in a series of essays, which will make the first part of every number, and to unite with them a complete literature of tournaments, and an enumeration of the printed and unprinted books on the subject. The Royal Library at Dresden contains some account of a book of tournaments

Ye powers aboon, I ca' to prove,

How true I loe'd my charming Anny!-
But never maer, now she's unco,

Will I confess ma lo'e for ony.

My heart is grawn as cauld as snaw,
That ance was wi' my passion blazing;
Like floods the simmer sun has warm'd
That Winter's moon, alack! is freezing.

Dear Sir,

C. B.K.

The eulogium bestowed on the Spanish Guitar, by your

correspondent Isabel, in your 74th Number, put me in
mind of an inscription on a very fine instrument of that
kind, sent from Spain as a present to a German Lady.
I have found the lines in my portfolio, with an English
and a French paraphrase, which I made at her request,
If you like to put them in some corner of your paper,
they are at your service.

LA GUITARRA ESPAÑOLA.
Soy un Pozo inagotable,
Y aquel que quiere estudiar,
Por mas clausulas que saque
Nunca el fin hà d'encontrar.

LA GUITARRE ESPAGNOLE.

Je suis un puits intarissable,
De mes eaux qui veut jouir,
Plus à m'epuiser il a plaisir
Plus il me trouve inepuisable.

THE SPANISH GUITAR.
A perennial spring am I,
Let him who loves my waters clear
Drink uncontroll'd, nor ever fear
To drain the crystal fountain dry.

H. E. L.

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY.

THE RESTITUTION OF THE
WORKS OF ART.

[Scipio at Carthage-Wellington at Paris,
a Parallel.]

Cicero in the 4th book of the Orations against Verres, chap. 33, has the following words:

Segesta is a very ancient city in Sicily, which a tradition, the authenticity of which can hardly be disputed, states to have been founded by Eneas when he visited that country on his flight from Troy. The citizens of Segesta therefore consider themselves as connected with the Romans, not only by the bonds of alliance and friendship, but also by those of relationship. This city once carried on war in its own name with the Carthaginians, who took it by storm and destroyed it, and carried every thing that had served to adorn it to Carthage. The Segestans possessed a bronze statue of Diana, sacred as an object of religious worship from ancient times, and admirable as an exquisite work of art. Being removed to Carthage, it exchanged its abode and owners, but was venerated ;-for its extraordinary beauty seemed to render it worthy, even in the eyes of the enemy, of the most sacred adoration. Some centuries later, in the third Punic war, P. Scipio took Carthage. After this victory, he assembled all the Sicilians, well knowing how long and how often Sicily had been ill-treated by the Carthaginians: he gave orders that every thing of which that island had been plundered should be collected, and promised to take the greatest care that every city should have its property restored. Immediately what had been taken from Himera was given to the Thermitanians (the late inhabitants of Himera;) other effects to the Agrigentines, among which was the celebrated Bull of the most cruel of all tyrants, Phalaris. It is said that Scipio, when he delivered it to the Agrigentines, obThus climbs ambition in the civic jar, served, that the Sicilians had good (Observe the neutral, moraling the case) reason to consider whether it were Struggling, by legs, arms, heads, ensign, and car, better for them to be under the yoke of To gain its object-but the upmost place.

IMPROMPTU AT THE CITY ELECTION.

upon

At the close of the London election in with beautiful paintings, which is not at all the Guildhall, a fellow, to hear and see known; and many interesting particulars at his ease, climbed upon Beckford's monurespecting the rare monuments of the tour-ment, and brushed off the dust from the naments formerly held in Dresden, which allegorical figure of the City, which forms are preserved in a suite of six rooms in the part of it, in order to take his station Royal Armoury. This might furnish much its shoulders ! valuable information to the author. What crowd of images that act suggests, Aloys Senefelder, who, which is seldom Unnoticed by the crowd below that bawl! The Patriot thus the City's dirt molests, the case, may be called both the inventor Cleanly to gain his seat o' the top of all. and perfecter of the new art, desires now to have it called by the name of Chemical Thus does corruption from our City flee, Printing, instead of Lithography, or stone-(Might say the freeman, who 'gainst printing, which is not adapted to it; because other materials, such as brass, copper, tinfoil, prepared paper, &c. are used in it in many cases instead of stone. He is on the point of publishing a work called "The Art af Lithography," the history of this art, which has spread from Munich over all Europe.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

SONG.

I care na' for ye, Anny said,
Sae gang awa' to ither lasses :-

Ye tempt wi' gowd, an' blink thine èe
To ilka bonnie quean chat passes.

I ken fu' weel ve lo'e to roam,
An' flirt wi' ilka rosy beauty.-
Ye shanna ba' my heart again,

Sin' sic a rover ye're fra duty.

Now pure she hoists her cap of liberty,
And tyrants feel her dagger in their souls.
Thus mount the mob to place unfit and high,
Retort, in wrath, the losers of the day)
But clear the statue;-would the infamy
Of ********'s choice could so be swept away!

JACQUES.

their own masters, or to obey the Romans; they had now in one image a monument of the cruelty of their native tyrants, and of our clemency:'-it was at this time that the statue of Diana returned to Segesta."

How close is the resemblance between Scipio at Carthage and Wellington at Paris (1815.) Thus the injustice and violence of mankind are repeated, but also at the same time the magnanimity of individuals; and history remains ou

APPARITION OF CAPT. CAMPBell.

Scotland has been famous, time immemorial, for stories of ghosts, witches, and all supernatural appearances. Whether these are or are not founded on variations of the principle of second sight, we leave to the profound investigation of the illuminati of the Northern Athens, and content ourselves with extracting a grave and, no doubt, authentic fact from a recent Number of a very excellent and amusing monthly work which emanates from that intellectual city. In justice to our able contemporary we name Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Mrs.

mother of an only son, whose fate depended upon her resolving wisely-into an agony of mind, which many readers may suppose will account satisfactorily for the following extraordinary apparition.

were im

danger, and which was to be exercised in |
his native country alone, was calculated to
remove many of the objections which a be-
loved mother might be supposed to have
against her only son entering into the army.
She had also the highest reliance on the
I need not remind my Edinburgh friends,
kindness and affection of her kinsman, that in ancient times their forefathers lived,
Captain Campbell, who, while he offered as they do still in Paris, in flats, which
to receive the young gentleman as a cadet have access by a common stair. The apart-
into his independent company, gave her his ments occupied by Mrs.
solemn assurance to watch over him in mediately above those of a family with
every respect as his own son, and to pre- whom she was intimate, and she was in the
vent his being exposed to any unnecessary habit of drinking tea with them every even-
hazard until he should have attained the ageing. It was duskish, and she began to
and experience necessary for his own gui- think that her agitation of mind had de-
dance.
greatly reconciled to tained her beyond the hour at which she
parting with her son in consequence of should have joined her friends, when, open-
future commander, it was arranged that her own lodging, she saw standing directly
these friendly assurances on the part of his ing the door of her little parlour, to leave
the youth should join the company at a par- opposite to her in the passage the exact
ticular time; and in the mean while, Mrs. resemblance of Captain Campbell, in his
who was then residing at Edinburgh, complete Highland dress, with belted plaid,
made the necessary preparations for his dirk, pistols, pouch and broad sword. Ap-
proper equipment.
palled at this vision, she started back,
closed the door of the room, staggered
backwards to a chair, and endeavoured to
convince herself that the apparition she
had seen was only the effect of a heated
imagination. In this, being a woman of a
strong mind, she partly succeeded, yet
could not prevail upon herself again to open
the door which seemed to divide her from the
shade of her deceased relation, until she
heard a tap on the floor beneath, which
was the usual signal from her friendly
neighbours to summon her to tea. On this
she took courage, walked firmly to the door
of the apartment, flung it open, and-again
beheld the military spectre of the deceased
officer of the Black Watch. He seemed to
stand within a yard of her, and held his
hand stretched out, not in a menacing
manner, but as if to prevent her passing
him. This was too much for human forti-
tude to endure, and she sunk down in the
floor, with a noise which alarmed her friends
below for her safety.

A lady, wife to a gentleman of respectable property on the borders of Argyleshire, was, about the middle of the last century, These had been nearly completed, when left a widow, with the management of an em- Mr3. — received a piece of melancholy barrassed estate and the care of an only son. intelligence, which again unsettled her reThe young gentleman approached that period solution; and while it filled her with grief of life when it was necessary that he should on account of her relation, awakened in the be sent into the world in some active pro- most cruel manner all the doubts and apfessional line. The natural inclination of prehensions which his promises had lulled the youth, like most others of that age and to sleep. A body of Katerns, or freebootcountry, was to enter into the army, a dis-ers, belonging, if I mistake not, to the position which his mother saw with anxiety, as all the perils of the military profession were aggravated to her imagination by maternal tenderness, and a sense of her own desolate situation. A circumstance however occurred, which induced her to grant her consent to her son's embracing this course of life with less reluctance than it would otherwise have been given.

A Highland gentleman named Campbell (we suppress his designation,) and nearly related to Mrs., was about this time named to the command of one of the independent companies, levied for protecting the peace of the Highlands, and preventing the marauding parties, in which the youth of the wilder clans were still occasionally exercised. These companies were called Sidier-dhu, i. e. black soldiers, to distinguish them from the Sidier-roy, or red soldiers, of the regular army; and hence, when embodied into a marching regiment (the well known forty-second,) the corps long retained, and still retains, the title of the Black Watch. At the period of the story the independent companies retained their original occupation, and were generally considered as only liable to do duty in their native country. Each of these corps conisted of about three hundred men, using the Highland garb and arms, and commanded by such gentlemen as the Brunswick government imagined they might repose confidence in. They were understood to engage only to serve in the Highlands, and no where else, and were looked upon rather as a kind of volunteers than as regular soldiers.

A service of this limited nature, which eemed to involve but little risk of actual

country of Lochiel, had made a descent
upon a neighbouring district of Argyle-
shire, and driven away a considerable creagh,
or spoil of cattle. Captain Campbell, with
such of his independent company as he
could assemble upon a sudden alarm, set
off in pursuit of the depredators, and after
a fatiguing march came up with them. A
slight skirmish took place, in course of
which the cattle were recovered, but not be-
fore Captain Campbell had received a severe
wound. It was not immediately, perhaps
not necessarily, mortal, but was rendered
so by want of shelter and surgical assist-
ance, and the same account, which brought
to Edinburgh an account of the skirmish,
communicated to Mrs. the death of
her affectionate kinsman. To grief for his
loss, she had now to add the painful recol-
lection, that her son, if he pursued the
line which had been resolved on, would be
deprived of the aid, countenance, and ad-
vice, of the person to whose care, as to that
of a father, she had resolved to confide him.
And the very event, which was otherwise
so much attended with grief and perplexity,
served to shew that the service of the inde-
pendent companies, however limited in
extent, did not exempt those engaged in it
from mortal peril. At the same time, there
were many arguments against retracting her
consent, or altering a plan in which so
much progress had been already made; and
she felt as if, on the one hand, she sacrificed
her son's life, if she permitted him to join
the corps; on the other, that his honour or
spirit might be called in question, by her
obliging him to renounce the situation.
These contending emotions threw her-a
widow, with no one to advise her, and the

On their hastening up stairs, and entering Mrs. 's lodging, they saw nothing extraordinary in the passage; but in the parlour found the lady in strong hysterics. She was recalled to herself with difficulty, but concealed the extraordinary cause of her indisposition. Her friends naturally imputed it to the late unpleasant intelligence from Argyleshire, and remained with her till a late hour, endeavouring to amuse and relieve her mind. The hour of rest however arrived, and there was a necessity, (which Mrs. felt an alarming one,) that she should go to her solitary apartment. She had scarce set down the light which she held in her hand, and was in the act of composing her mind, ere addressing the Deity for protection during the perils of the night, when, turning her head, the vision she had seen in the passage was standing in the apartment. On this emergency she summoned up her courage, and addressing him by his name and surname, conjured him in the name of Heaven to tell her wherefore he thus haunted her. The apparition instantly answered, with a

voice and manner in no respect differing | tian charity you may decline proclaiming | Nobles, and their delectable performances from those proper to him while alive, them to the world, a covey of French are occasionally exhibited as a certain atCousin, why did you not speak sooner?-performers are maintained, and on every traction on the night of a grand route. my visit is but for your good,-your grief Friday evening, at the Argyle Rooms, these disturbs me in my grave, and it is by per- select artistes display their "petites comemission of the Father of the fatherless and dies" to our British noblesse.* Subscribers Husband of the widow, that I come to tell only are admitted to the pit and lower you not to be disheartened by my fate, but boxes, whilst in the upper tiers the foreign to pursue the line which, by my advice, friends of the players witness the triumph you adopted for your son. He will find a of the lowest of their country, and the deprotector more efficient, and as kind as I based taste and humiliation of England. would have been; will rise high in the military profession, and live to close your eyes." With these words, the figure representing Captain Campbell completely vanished.

Upon the point of her being decidedly awake and sensible, through her eyes and ears, of the presence and words of this apparition, Mrs. declared herself perfectly convinced. She said, when minutely questioned by the lady who told me the story, that his general appearance differed in no respect from that which he presented when in full life and health, but that in the last occasion, while she fixed her eyes on the spectre in terror and anxiety, yet with a curiosity which argued her to be somewhat familiarized with his presence, she observed a speck or two of blood upon his breast, ruffle, and band, which he seemed to conceal with his hand when he observed her looking at him. He changed his attitude more than once, but slightly, and without altering his general position.

The fate of the young gentleman in future life seemed to correspond with the prophecy. He entered the army, rose to considerable rank, and died in peace and honour, long after he had closed the eyes of the good old lady, who had determined, or at least professed to have determined, his destination in life upon this marvellous suggestion.

THE DRAMA.

FOREIGN PLAYERS.-ARGYLE ROOMS.

To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR,

The deplorable state of one of our great national theatres must occasion great pain to all lovers of the genuine British drama. However respectably the other House may

be conducted, it is certain, as was once re

O tempora! O mores!

however a comfort to reflect, that if our The heart is sickened to proceed. It is due to their rank, there is still a patriotic aristocracy or our rulers can forget what is feeling in the nation, and a noble resolution in our British soldiers and sailors, that

will prove sufficient to curb the insolence of foreign encroachment.

I am yours, &c.

When we call to mind the light in which players are viewed in France, particularly females, we must blush to think that they should have it in their power to boast in the cabarets of the Fauxbourg St. Antoine of honours paid them in the select society of St. James's Square and Pall Mall-that even Princes have stooped so low as Your readers, who have access to the cordially to take them by the hand. Such, Olympic or Sans Pareil, need not regret however, may be their boast: and more their exclusion. Neither the eye nor the than this, one of them may glory that a mind are deprived of any very high enjoy-leader of fashion (Mrs. Boehm) opened her ment. A temporary stage is fitted up, in house for his benefit; that our nobility front of which three foreign musicians em- made haste to deposit their guineas for the ploy their instruments. One and the same tickets of admission; and that English scene is uniformly presented to the eye; Earls could go from house to house to make in the middle of that scene is a door, and interest to obtain them. by it these "artistes" make their entrée and sortie. Such is the rigorous observation of the unity of place, that whether the piece be supposed to be in a street or a lady's dressing room, in the salle a manger of an Auberge, or the salle de compagnie of a Baron, in a kitchen or a court, in a guinguette or a garden, the scenery, and the entrée, and the sortie, are ever the same. After nine the curtain draws up, the performers come forward to repeat, by the help of the prompter, occasionally shutting their eyes or looking on the ground, the parts they have learned in the course of the week. An opinion may be formed of their experience and talents, when it is thus known that they have come to London to rehearse, and that the pieces are here acted by them for the first time. One will not be much surprised to find a great part of the wit of the plays to consist of practical jokes, as the stealing of fruit, the pilfering of part of a bottle of wine and pouring in water instead, kicking the seat of honour, breaking of plates and bottles, wailing like children, &c.&c. Experience has, no doubt, taught the performers that such efforts of ingenuity give more satisfaction, and are better suited to their talents, and the intelligence of their audience, than the comedies of Moliere, which they occasionally attempt. "Ne sutor ultra crepidam" is dently not to attempt to go beyond their a wise proverb, and the players act prustrength; but it must be afflicting to every leaders of public taste assemble to applaud, ingenuous British mind to see our fancied not the true drama of the Theatre Français,

BRITANNICUS.

[We have inserted the communication of our correspondent Britannicus, because we are ourselves of opinion, that the patronage bestowed on foreign performances is more justly due to those who uphold the dignity of our national drama. A wish to familiarise their children to the French language and pronunciation may laudably operate in part on the minds of some of the subscribers; and this is, perhaps, the only apology that can be offered for them in the present instance. Of the merits and qualifications of the individual performers, we do not ourselves offer any opinion; and we are willing to attend to what may be offered in their defence.]-EDITOR.

DRURY LANE concluded its luckless course on Tuesday with a Benefit for Mr. Spring, the Box-keeper, and as the close Johnston delivered the following of the season demands a speech, Mr. H.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-This evenson of Dramatic Performances at this Theaing being fixed upon to terminate the sea

marked by Mr. John Kemble at a public but the trash that serves to amuse the low tre, permit me most respectfully to return

meeting, that in order to have one good theatre we must have two. The constant stimulus of rivalship is necessary both to performers and managers, to keep up that unceasing exertion which is required to render our theatres worthy of the patronage of the public. Whatever other causes may have contributed to the decline of one of our great theatres, there is one which must

populace of Paris, in the Theatre des
Varietés, or at the Porte St. Martin-that
trash too not performed by a Parisian com-
lected, and where taught to represent plays,
pany, but by strollers, in what places col-
M. Sequin is best able to inform us.

It will no doubt astonish such of your
readers as are unacquainted with the taste
and habits of the beau-monde, to learn that
these comedians are caressed in the private
that they are seated at the tables of our
society of our wealthy Fashionables, and

have had no small effect-the neglect of our
principal nobility and gentry, and the encou-
ragement lavishly bestowed on a strolling
company of foreigners. Under the patronage
of a committee of ladies of rank and fashion,
whose names I subjoin, though from Chris-bition.

you thanks for that share of your patronage
you have so kindly condescended to bestow
on our zealous endeavours to merit your
applause.

the Drury Lane Company, both collectively
"I can truly assert, that the efforts of
honoured with the approbation of a gene-
and individually, have been most liberally
most gratifying reward.
rous and discriminating public, always their

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"I now, Ladies and Gentlemen, for leave once more to offer our sincere thanks, myself and the Company in general, beg

Yesterday was, we believe, their last exhi-and to assure you, that although the success of the present has been, from the peculiar