conveyance. But how are we to receive your answer? For that our plan is already arranged. Napoleon, you know, is freely permitted to ask for whatever he wants; and he intends, in a few months, to request that the little library which I left in France may be sent to us. It contains, among other things, an edition of Voltaire's works. This you must immediately get possession of, and place an almost imperceptible point or prick of a pin under every letter which you may have occasion to employ in your correspondence with us. For instance, if you wish to express the word rous, place a small pencil mark or prick beneath the first v from the bottom of the last page, then another under the first o from the top of the first page, then under a u on the last page, and an s on the first, always taking care to employ only two pages for each word, lest the marks should attract notice. If you wish to describe the word avez, select the a from the last page but one, the from the second page, &c. This is a tedious mode of correspondence, but you, I am sure, will cheerfully adopt it. It will be a far more troublesome task to connect the letters and syllables together, but how can we employ ourselves more agreeably? Only think what a joyful day it will be when the Voltaire arrives! How eagerly we shall all set to work: Napoleon to search out the letters, and I to write from his dictation, whilst every sentence we unravel will give rise to some new prospect or cheering hope. A confidential friend in England proposed to secrete letters in some hollow billiard-balls; and Napoleon's treasurer in America has thought of another ingenious stratagem. But in contrivances of this sort the Emperor is himself inexhaustible. Adieu then for the present. We expect to land to-morrow morning, and if so I will without loss of time inform you how and where we are. (Letter II. in our next.) LEARNED SOCIETIES. OXFORD, JULY 11. Messrs. Charles Litchfield Swainson, Richard Harvey, Charles Bellamy, and Charles Dethick Blyth, have been admitted Fellows; and Messrs. John Ball, Francis Jackson Blandy, and Edward Parris New, Scholars of St. John's College. CAMBRIGE, JULY 10. On Tuesday last, being Commencement Day, the following Doctors and Masters of Arts were created: Doctors in Divinity.-Rev. Alexander Richardson, of C. C. College; Rev. Richard Yates, of Jesus College Rev. Thomas Henry Coles, of Clare Hall. Doctors in Civil Law.-John Haggard, Esq. and Rev. James Geldart, of Trinity Hall. Doctors in Physic.-W. F. Chambers, Esq. of Trinity College; John R. Park, Esq. of Jesus College; Richard Formby, Esq. of Caius College. powers of argument, for great modifications in the existing law and practice, which we could not but consider to be ill-founded, partial, oppressive, and injurious to literature. We have now to state the result of the proceedings in Parliament on this subject, and in doing so, feel no small degree of pleasure in its close accordance with the principles we maintained; together with, perhaps, a little pride in the supposition that our humble efforts may have had some share in contributing to this desirable issue. The Report of the Committee was presented shortly before the dissolution of Parliament; and when it is held in view that this Committee was composed of eleven attending members, of whom four were the representatives of the two English Universities, and one of the University of Dublin, (in other words, parties interested on one side) this consideration will add singular force to the resolutions agreed to. Masters of Arts.-Mr. Browning, of King's College; Messrs. Mac Leay, Purvis, G. Waddington, Franks, Douglas, Wigram, Green, Lyon, Clapham, Bagshawe, R. C. Wilson, Sperling, Sinclair, Moody, Senhouse, Cheap, Brisco, Mowbray, Gordon, Smith, W. P. Waddington, Cator, Golding, Bawtree, Bowen, Scarlett, W. C. Wilson, of Trinity College; Messrs. Beamish, Tennyson, Wynne, Watson, Smith, C. S. Luxmoore, White, Blackburn, Garrow, Reaston, Douglas, Barrow, Higton, Robinson, Graham, Chapman, Salwey, Heysham, Thirlwall, Gordon, Mills, Simpson, C.T.C. Luxmoore, Barnard, Moore, Owen, and Harrison, of St. John's College; Messrs. Dicken, Dobson, Proctor, Quilter, Bligh, Whinfield, and Jenkin, of St. Peter's College; Messrs. Semple, Ridsdale, Bidwell, Worthington, and Miller, of Clare Hall; Messrs. Backhouse, Ainslie, Phear, and White, of Pembroke Hall; Messrs. Judkin, Crooke. Wildig, Rudge, and Theobald, of Caius College; Mr. Wilkinson, of Trinity Hall; Messrs. Boys, Flather, Tweed, and Holmes, of Corpus Christi College; Messrs. Foyster, Smith, Brereton, Beard, Galland, The Select Committee appointed to exCunningham, Puckle, Blackden, of Queen's amine the acts 8 Anne, c. 19; 15 Geo. III. College; Messrs. Abbot and Scholfield, of c. 53; 41 Geo. III. c. 107; and 51 Geo. III. Catharine Hall; Messrs. Calvert, Tucker, c. 116, respecting Copyright of Books; and Sparke, Emly, and Dewing, of Jesus Col- to report any or what alterations are relege; Messrs. Leicester, Lawrence, Hoste,quisite to be made therein, together with Poynder, Bromehead, Marsh, and Hildyard, and to whom the petitions regarding the their observations thereupon, to the House; of Christ College; Messrs. Rawson, Vale, and Foster, of Magdalen College; Messrs. Copyright Bill, and all returns from public Copper, Archdale, Burrows, Holme, Main- libraries, and from Stationers'-hall, prewaring, Scott, and Cresswell, of Emmanuel sented in the present session, were referred: College; Messrs. Keene, Winch, Goddard, and who were empowered to report their Roy, Dale, Thimbleby, and Southcomb, of opinion thereupon to the House,- Have Sidney College; Mr. Price of Downing examined the matters to them referred, and College. have agreed upon the following Report and Resolutions, together with an Appendix. The Hon. J. Neville, of Christ College, and the Hon. Henry Townshend, of St. John's College, were on Monday admitted Honorary Masters of Arts: the Rev. Miles Bland, Fellow of St. John's College, and G. Powell, of Queen's College, Bachelors in Divinity: Mr. C. Sims, of Trinity College, on Saturday, Bachelor in Physic: Mr. Briarly, of St. John's College, yesterday, Master of Arts. The Rev. James Proctor, M.A. formerly of Exeter College, Oxford, was last week admitted into one of the Fellowships at St. Peter's College in this University, on the Park foundation. The Rev. James Collett Ebden, B. A. Junior Tutor of Trinity Hall, was yesterday admitted Fellow of that society. LITERATURE:-COPYRIGHT. In our No. 66 (25th of April) we devoted a considerable portion of the Literary Gazette to the review and discussion of the important question involved in the legal enactments, or at least construction of legal enactments, relative to the Copyright in Books, and to the delivery of copies by the publishers to various privileged bodies in consequence thereof. We stated the question fairly as it appeared to us, and strenuously contended to the utmost of our REPORT ON THE COPYRIGHT ACT. The earliest foundation for a claim from any public library, to the gratuitous delivery of new publications, is to be found in a deed of the year 1610, by which the Company of Stationers of London, at the request of Sir Thomas Bodley, engages to deliver a copy of every book printed in the Company, (and not having been before printed) to the University of Oxford. This however seems to be confined to the publications of the company in its corporate capacity, and could in no case extend to those which might proceed from individuals unconnected with it. Soon after the Restoration, in the year 1662, was passed the "Act for preventing abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, and for regulating of printing and printing presses;" by which, for the first time, it was enacted, that every printer should reserve three copies of the best and largest paper of every book new printed, or reprinted by him with additions, and shall, before any public vending of the said book, bring them to the master of the Company of Stationers, and deliver them to him: one whereof shall be delivered to the Keeper of His Majesty's Library, and the other two to be sent to the Vice Chancellor of the two Universities respectively, to the use of struction, the Act of 41 Geo. III. expressly In Beckford versus Hood, the Court of gratuitous delivery of eleven copies, should be repealed, except in so far as relates to the British Museum, and that it is desirable that a fixed allowance should be granted, in lieu thereof, to such of the other public libraries, as may be thought expedient.(Carried in the Committee by six ayes, to five nos, the latter including the four Members for Oxford and Cambridge.) the public libraries of the said Universities.* This act was originally introduced for two years, but was continued by two acts of the same Parliament till 1679, when it expired. It was, however, revived in the 1st year of James II., and finally expired in 1695. It has been stated by Mr. Gaisford, one of the curators of the Bodleian Library, "that there are several books entered in its register, as sent from the Stationers' Company subsequent to the expiration of that Act;" but it is probable that this delivery was by no means general, as there are no traces of it at Stationers' Hall, and as Hearne, in the preface to the Reliquæ Bodleianæ, printed in 1703, presses for benefactions to that library as peculiarly desirable," since the Act of Parliament for sending copies of books printed by the The burden of the delivery, which by the London booksellers is expired, and there latter decision was for the first time estaare divers wanting for several years past." blished to be obligatory upon publishers, During this period, the claim of authors produced in the following year a great and publishers to the perpetual copyright variety of petitions to the House of Comof their publications, rested upon what was mons for redress, which were referred to a afterwards determined to have been the committee, whose report will be found in common law, by a majority of nine to three the Appendix; and in 1814 the last act on 4. Resolved, That it is the opinion of of the judges, on the cases of Millar and this subject was passed, which directed the this Committee, That all books in respect Taylor in 1769, and Donaldson and Becket indiscriminate delivery of one large paper of which claim to copyright shall be exin 1774. Large estates had been vested in copy of every book which should be pub-pressly and effectually abandoned, be also copyrights; these copyrights had been as-lished (at the time of its being entered at exempted.-(Great majority.) signed from hand to hand, had been the subject of family settlements, and in some instances larger prices had been given for the purchase of them (relation being had to the comparative value of money) than at any time subsequent to the act of the 8th of Queen Anne. By this act, which in the last of these two cases, has since been determined to have destroyed the former perpetual copyright, and to have substituted one for a more limited period, but protected by additional penalties on those who should infringe it, it is directed that nine copies of each book that shall be printed or published, or reprinted and published with additions, shall by the printer be delivered to the warehouse-keeper of the Company of Stationers, before such publication made, for the use of the Royal Library, the libraries of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the libraries of the four Universities of Scotland, the library of Sion College in London, and the library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. From the passing of this act until the decision of the cases of Beckford and Hood, in 1798, and of the University of Cambridge and Bryer, in 1813, it was universally understood, that neither the protection of copyright, nor the obligation to deliver the eleven copies attached to the publication of any book, unless it was registered at Stationers' Hall, an act which was considered as purely optional and unnecessary, where it was intended to abandon the claim for copyright, and in conformity to this con Upon reference to the continuing act of 17 Ch. II. c. 4, the clauses respecting the delivery of the three copies appear to be perpetual; yet it should seem that they were not so considered, not being adverted to in the act of Anne. Stationers'-hall) to the British Museum, It appears, so far as your Committee The Committee having directed a statement to be prepared by one of the witnesses, an experienced bookseller, of the retail price of one copy of every book entered at Stationers' Hall between the 30th July 1814, and the 1st of April 1817, find that it amounts in the whole to 1,4197. 38. 11d. which will give an average of 5321. 4s. per annum; but the price of the books received into the Cambridge University Library from July 1814, to June 1817, amounts to 1,1457. 10s. the average of which is 3817. 16s. 8d. per annum. In the course of the inquiry committed to them, the Committee have proceeded to examine a variety of evidence, which, as it is already laid before the House, they think it unnecessary here to recapitulate; but upon a full consideration of the subject, they have come to the following Resolu tions: 1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, That it is desirable that so much of the Copyright Act as requires the 2. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, That if it should not be thought expedient by the House to comply with the above recommendation, it is desirable that the number of libraries entitled to claim such delivery should be restricted to the British Museum, and the libraries of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin Universities. (Only one dissentient voice.) · 3. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, That all books of prints, wherein the letter-press shall not exceed a certain very small proportion to each plate, shall be exempted from delivery, except to the Museum, with an exception of all books of mathematics.-(Great majority.) 5. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, That the obligation imposed on printers to retain one copy of each work printed by them, shall cease, and the copy of the Museum be made evidence in lieu of it.-(Decided by the casting vote of the chairman.) June 5. It is to be hoped the new Parliament will act on these resolutions promptly, and redress the great grievances they point out; while at the same time such liberality may be extended to the learned bodies in question, as will enable them to be the greatest encouragers, instead of the incubi of litera ture. ARTS AND SCIENCES. NEW DISCOVERY IN OPTICS. A very interesting and important discovery has lately been made on the increase and projection of light, by Mr. Lester, Engineer, who has obtained a patent for the preservation of his right in the invention, the specification of which we shall reserve for a future Number. As this discovery will form a new era in optics, a record of its history must prove interesting to the scientific world, and, as such, we shall briefly lay before our readers as much of it as we have been able to obtain. Mr. Lester being engaged at the West India Docks for the purpose of applying his new mechanical power, The Convertor, to Cranes, by which the labour of winches is performed by rowing, &c. ;* on taking a view of the immense Spirit vaults, * For the complete success of this important mode of employing human power, see New Monthly Magazine for May 1818, p. 315. he was forcibly struck by the inefficient | same quality and effect may be produced in the direction of the angle of this peculiar If a candle he placed before a mirror, its flame will be represented; and if a thousand mirrors are placed in a given circle round a candle, the candle will be represented a thousand times, and each reFrom these observations, Mr. Lester presentation equal in brilliancy, if the concluded, that a lens might be so con- mirrors are at equal distances from the structed as to prevent this refraction, and flame. Suppose that the thousand mirrors commenced a course of experiments for were united in such a form as to bring all that purpose. He succeeded by obtain- the represented flames into one flame, of ing the proper angle of the incidental rays equal brillianey with the real flame of the with a mirror, and finding the scope of the candle. For the same law of nature by cylinder sufficiently copious to admit the which the flame is represented a thousand reflected rays into the vault, provided the times in as many mirrors so united, it refraction of the lens did not intervene. would be represented in one flame if the The same angle produced by the mirror he mirror be made of a proper form, and endeavoured to retain upon the sides of the placed in a proper position to receive the lens, by giving it a different form, a pecu-rays of light that emanate from the candle liar part of which he intended to foliate. But having met with insurmountable difliculties in this process, he concluded from the striking appearance of silvery light upon the interior surface of that part he intended to silver, that metal would represent the light by retaining that form, and, brought down below the edges of the lens, might produce the desired effect. In his attempt to accomplish this purpose, by holding the body in a vertical position between the eye and a candle, a flash of light was instantly produced by representing the flame of the candle magnified to the size of the whole of the inner surface of this piece of metal, and gave an increased light upon the wall opposite to him. After this discovery, he had several pieces of metal formed, retaining the same angle, but of various diameters, and found to his great surprise, that, although their area were greatly increased, the representation of the flame still filled them without the least diminution in the quality of the light, but with an increased light againt the wall, in proportion to the increased area of the surface of the metal. How far this power and effect may extend, is not at present ascertained; but it is believed that a zone of light of the + One of which is nearly an acre and a half in area, and is supported by 207 groined arches, and 207 stone pillars. This invention is not confined solely to light, but the increase of heat keeps pace with the increase of light, and both in the ratio of the area of the surface. The apparatus is so constructed as to be placed upon a candle, and sinks down with, the flame, without either flooding or waste. As the light of a small candle is visible at the distance of four miles in a dark night, what must the diameter or circumference of that zone of flame be that is produced by this discovery from one of the gas lights in the streets of London? Thus two lamps or stations would be sufficient to light the longest street, when its position approaches to a right line, as the diameter of the zone may be made of the same diameter as the street; and as the rays of light that are increased by this invention diverge from the luminous body, all parts of the street would be filled with light. Many are the minor advantages that will be derived from its application to domestic purposes, for writing, reading, and working by candle or lamp light. This, like Dr. Brewster's Kaleidoscope, is another instance of the effects to be produced by mirrors. of the inventor, with a sight of the apparatus, and were present at some exhibitions of the wonderful effects which were produced by the use of it. The further particulars of this important subject we hope to lay before our readers in an early Number. SIR, PERPETUAL MOTION. Amsterdam, July 9, 1818. Having read in one of the Numbers of your very valuable and highly interesting paper, an article about the invention of a perpetuum mobile, by a Scotch shoemaker, I think it just to observe, that this machine has the same defects which were found in an almost similar instrument invented some years ago (I think 1813) in Holland, and with which various experiments were made before the Society of Arts, established in this town, called Felix Meritis. It was then proved in a satisfactory manner, that there was no other obstacle to the perpetuity of motion in this machine, but that by the continual rubbing, and by the detraction of the machine that followed, the attraction became at last a little less on one side than it was on the other, and the rebound motion was consequently destroyed. Although it was calculated the machine would keep going for about 150 years, it was justly observed that this was not the true perpetuum mobile. The machine you describe approaches so nearly to that I speak of, that I think it almost impossible the Scotchman should not have known something of it; aud, as it does not appear to have purified his machine from the only fault there was in the other, I do not think he has brought this puzzle any nearer to its solution. As the smallest error in a paper of so wide a circulation is of the greatest consequence, I dare call on your Justice, Sir, to publish this in the next Number of your Journal. * From the envelope to this letter (which we insert most cheerfully, as we have no object but truth in our researches) we learn that the writer is one of the Professors at the Athenæum of Amsterdam; and therefore, we trust his objection to Mr. Spence's originality may receive the explanation to which, as a gentleman of letters and of science, he is entitled.-Ed. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANIES. It appears that the great impediment to improvement and discovery in this branch of the science of optics has arisen from the difficulty of foiling glass to the various forms necessary, in lieu of which we have NEW ALKALI.-The New Alkali discobeen compelled to use metallic substances.vered in Sweden by M. Arfwedson has atThese difficulties once removed, a vast field tracted great attention in the chemical of important discovery will be opened on world. It has been called Lithia, and was the nature and effect of light. May not many first found in the Mineral Petalite at Utoen. of the phenomena that are observed in the It is readily obtained by fusing the mineral air, such as halos round the sun, be pro-with potash, dissolving the whole in Muriaduced by this principle, the rays falling tic Acid, evaporating to dryness, and diupon a denser medium than air, and thus gesting in Alcohol. Lithia is at the rate of producing a zone of light? &c. &c. about 5 per cent. in the Petalite; but in the ac-Triphane or Spodumene it reaches to 8 per cent. The mine at Utoen also produces Previous to drawing up the above count, we were favoured, by the indulgence another substance, crystallized lepidolite, | in which it is in the proportion of 4 per cent. Pure Lithia is very soluble in water, has a very acrid caustie taste, and acts powerfully on blue vegetable colours. It also acts strongly on platinum when heated, has a strong affinity for acids, and a very high neutralizing power, even surpassing that of Magnesia. The proportion of its oxygen is mine. was with regret, but he must, as a native of the Great Nation, do something to wipe off the stigma that would attach to it, if the mained uncontradicted. Those statements he must at present presume arose from mistake, especially those which referred to Mademoiselle Fanny Bias. He shewed, and indeed lent, me a letter, that he had But softly;-on these Boards I'm nothing new: calculated at from 43. 5 to 44. 84 per cent. He has refused a Scotch engagement proffered,~/written to her in an idle hour. I turned the The White Matter voided by Snakes is almost entirely pure Uric Acid. (Dr. John Dary.) There is a longitudinal fissure in the poison teeth of serpents, which is not perceptible in those of a harmless kiud. Mr. Joseph Swan, in a paper read to the Royal Society, recommends corrosive sublimate as an improved method of making anatomical preparations. The mountain of Skiddaw has been ascertained by Mr. Greatorex to be 1012 yards 34 inches in height. In the year 1817, the average time of actual rain was 1 hour 47 minutes, and its average quantity 0,68 inches per day. The observations were made in Bedfordshire. Blight in Apple Trees. The American farmers are said to prevent the blight in Apple Trees, and secure plentiful crops, by the simple process of rubbing tar well into the bark about four or six inches wide round each tree, and a foot from the ground. Pretty Experiment,-Place a piece of camphor or a few fragments in any convenient situation, such as the bottom of a glass, and lay a piece of coiled or pressed up Platinum Wire, heated, upon it: the Platina will glow brilliantly as long as any Camphor remains, and frequently light up into flame. Mothers, Bump themselves on them, at the Watering-places. The following is a free translation from the French, a little imperfect I must confess; for a waggish friend of mine maltreated the commencement of it (as far as the chasm) after I had parted with the original composition, and I was consequently obliged to patch his alterations and the remaining fragment together as well as I could. commencement of it into rhyme: It has Your most obedient Servant, XXX. Fanny Bias in Flora-dear creature! you'd swear, When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, And she only par complaisance touches the ground. ON READING MR WATERS' PAMPIILET. Methinks you have left your ethercal tent, Where you dwelt like a nymph-Nay, I forc'd to lament That-Miss Bias-(though still may be lofty her bound) No longer" par complaisance touch's the ground," To us mortals-we mortals must pay her "in Oh! my Fanny-and was it for thee, Or that great-bouncing dancing-girl Madame Let V— (who signs like a Lord) still disclaim Let the " Buffo-B. C." in his impudence ask "Fourteen covers," to fatten him fit for his task- I To mix with the paltry, exorbitant crew!! I Away with these o'er-reaching wretches—but you feel "au desespoir," you were all my delight lov'd you--I thought you a daughter of light.— Oh! come forward, my love, and the slander Or begone, like an angel, at once to the skyAnd if you ne'er drop from your dwelling again, shall know it was envy that drove you from The writing came into my hands in the following manner: As I was taking my ETHERIOSCOPE.-Professor Leslie, of chop in Sweetings-Alley the other day, I Edinburgh, has invented an instrument, observed that my next neighbour was in some called an Etherioscope, for measuring the distress, and that it appe red to arise from cold transmitted from the higher regions of a Pamphlet which he held in his hand. The the atmosphere into the lower. By this the person was about 4 feet and an half high, relative temperature of remote and elevated had a foreign aspect, and wore a small hat as well as of accessible parts may be ascer-receding almost to a point at the top, and tained. The deductions already drawn from which seemed altogether supported by the the use of the Etherioscope are, that cold profusion of black shaggy hair that adorned pulses shoot downward from the sky, and his head, and the whiskers that obscured warm pulses are sent upward from the his sallow cheeks. After having made a heated air near the earth. temperate meal off a kidney and a pint of beer (which circumstance I should have attributed to poverty, had I not perceived a multitude of gold and silver rings on all his fingers) he wiped his eyes, and addressed me. He said that he had the honour of being a Frenchman-that he had experienced the most profound and invincible attachment to Mademoiselle Bias for some years -that he was overwhelmed with sorrow at reading the statements made in M. Wa-I ters's pamphlet-that although he was peA prettier couple can't be found, that's certain.-netrated with respect for Monsieur Waters Sweet Billy Shakspeare, lord of Nature's glass, Has said," Then came each actor on his ass," And, since great Billy sanctions little Neddy, I enter on my Donkey, squat and steady. ORIGINAL POETRY. EPILOGUE, Spoken by Mr. Liston (on his benefit night) in the WRITTEN BY GEO. COLMAN, ESQ. [Not before published.] Behold a pair of us !-before the curtain (who as the head of an Establishment deny, men. Till I hear from you, Fanny, I'll never believe And there too shall wander Pontarlier's love. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. THE HERMIT IN LONDON, OR SKETCHES OF ENGLISH MANNERS. No. II. HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY. man. At this juncture Mr. Millefleurs came one of the best leapers of fences that he had ever seen. Lady Mary condescended all this time to caress the horse, and to display her lovely arm ungloved, with which she patted his neck, and drew a hundred admiring eyes. more like an Egyptian mummy than a What impudence! he has got some groom out of place, with a cockade in his hat, by way of imposing on the world for a beau militaire. I have not common patience with these creatures. I have long since left off going to the The Exquisite all this time brushed play on a Saturday, because, independent the animal gently with a highly scented of my preference for the Opera, these silk handkerchief, after which he disinsects from Cheapside, and so on west-played a cambric one, and went through "I wish that there was not such a ward, shut up their shops, cheat their a thousand little minanderies which would thing as a Sunday in the whole year," masters, and font les importants about have suited an affected woman better said my volatile friend, Lady Mary Mo- nine o'clock. The same party crowd the than a Lieutenant in his Majesty's bridish: "A fine Sunday draws out as many Park on Sunday; but on black Monday gade of Guards. Although he talked a insects, from the butterfly of fashion down return like school-boys to their work, and great deal, the whole amount of his disto the grub-worm from some court lead- you see them, with the pen behind course was, that he gave only seven ing out of Bishopsgate Without or Bi- their ear, calculating how to make up hundred guineas for his horse; that his shopgate Within, as a hot sun and a for their hebdomadal extravagances, pes- groom's horse had run at the Craven; shower of rain can produce in the mid-tering you to buy twice as much as you that he was monstrous lucky that seadle of June. The plebs flock so that want, and officiously offering their arın son on the turf; that he was a very bold you can scarcely get into your barouche at your carriage door." horseman himself; and, that being enor curricle without being hustled by the gaged to dine in three places that day, men-milliners, linen-drapers, and shop-up to the carriage, perfumed like a milli- he did not know how the devil to boys, who have been serving you all the ner, his colour much heightened by some manage; but that if Lady Mary dined rest of the week. Bad horsemen, and vegetable dye, and resolved neither to at any one of the three, he would cut pedestrian women, parées a outrance, 'blush unseen,' nor to waste his sweet- the other two. ultras in conceit and in dress, press upon ness on the desert air.' His approach was you on every hand; and yet one cannot very much like what I have heard of the be at church all day, nor make a pri- Spice Islands. Two false teeth in front soner of one's self because it is Sunday. shamed the others a little in their ivory For my part, I am ennuié beyond meapolish, and his breath savoured of myrrh sure on that day; and were it not for my burned in one of their temples. He like a heathen sacrifice, or the incense harp, and a little scandal, there would be no getting through it at all." thrust his horse's head into the carriage corously) but I perceived that it gave no (I thought a little abruptly and indeoffence. He smiled very affectedly, adjusted his hat, pulled a lock of hair across his forehead, with a view of shewing, first, that he had a white forehead, and next, that the glossiness of his hair must hours brushing, arranging, perfuming, have owed its lustre to at least two and unguenting. He now got his horse's head still closer to us, dropped the rein of the carriage, with his whip stuck upon his neck, hung half in and half out under his arm, and a violet in the corner of his mouth, a kind of impudent stare hand, and was out of sight in two seHe now dropped the violet, kissed his in his eyes, and a something half too conds. familiar, yet half courtly in his manner. Ladyship. I bowed assent, and offered "A fine young man!" said her Mary. Yes,' replied Millefleurs, he about me, as "What a beautiful horse!" said Lady her some Eau de Cologne, which I had is one of the best bred horses in Europe.' horse had left an impression of stable the well-bred, fencing "I must confesss that I thought other- smell on her taper fingers. Alas! thought wise; nor did I admire his being so near, I, this young rake has left a deeper imhis head being troublesome to me:" pression elsewhere. Lady Mary has a and,' continued he,' the best fencer in the fine fortune, and I am sorry to see her universe. This accomplishment I had thus dazzled by this compound of trinkets myself excelled in; but I was ignorant and of cosmetics, who, involved to a of its becoming a part of equine educa- great degree, will in a short time tion. I urged him to explain, and squander a great part of her property. amused him at my expense very much. But Mr. Millefleurs is a complete merHe, however, was polite enough to in-veilleux; and that is quite enough for my struct my ignorance; and informed me volatile friend. that he was a high couraged horse, and The carriage now drew up to the door; and her Ladyship proposed that I should take a corner in it, and go down the Park just once with her and her younger sister, merely, as she said, to show her friends that she was in town." "What legions of compter coxcombs! exclaimed she, as we entered Grosvenor Gate; "the Tilbury and Dennet system is a great convenience to these people. Upon the plunder of the till, or by overcharging some particular article sold on the Saturday to a negligeant, who goes shopping more for the purpose of meeting her favoured swain than for any thing which she wants to purchase, it is so easy for these once-a-week beaux to hire a tilbury and an awkward groom in a pepper-and-salt or drab coat, like the incog of the Royal Family, and to sport their odious persons in the drive of fashion. Some of the monsters, too, bow to ladies whom they do not know, merely to give them an air, or pass off their customers for their acquaintance." "There!" continued she," there goes my plumassier, with fixed spurs like a field-officer, and riding as importantly as if he were one of the Lords of the Treasury. There again is my banker's clerk, stiff and so laced up, that he looks At this moment a mad-brained Ruffian of quality flew by, driving four-in-hand, and exclaimed, in a cracked but affected tone, "Where have you hid yourself of late, Charles?" I have been one of His Millefleurs-meaning that he had been Majesty's prisoners in the Tower,' said on duty there; and, turning to Lady Mary, in a half whisper, he observed, form, though his cattle and his equipage Although you see him in such good Bench only last week, having thrown are so well appointed, he got out of the over the vagabonds his creditors: he is a noble spirited fellow, as good a whip mour, and I am happy to say that he as any in Britain, full of life and of huhas now a dozen of as fine horses as any in Christendom, kept, bien entendu, in wheel. my name-but there is a wheel within a Looking after him for half a minute, |