quite out of place, as if the family had changed sexes, sides and conditions, and did every thing by a rule contrary to all old established propriety.

Thus had Lord Riverbank been staghunting, and Lady Riverbank fishing had the young Lord been in the hands of his drill serjeant, or driving out for the purpose of becoming an able charioteer-had Lady Ann been dancing in the place of her governess-and had Lady Elizabeth and the recumbent Lady Mary been employed at their music or at study, whilst Mademoiselle might be altering some dress-it strikes me that the pursuits of the family would have been more analogous to the age, sex, rank and understandings of its members. As for the turning, carpenter, and cabinetmaking lines, they might have been omitted altogether.

We indeed hear of a Royal locksmith, and of one king's making buttons, and another crowned head being employed in the art of embroidering (a courtly thing enough, when not performed by a needle ;) yet cannot tailoring or any operative mean handicraft trade ever be fitted for royalty, or even for manhood. The sceptre should never be exchanged for the hammer or saw, nor the sword laid aside for the bodkin or scissors. To honest mechanics let such occupations be left, they are suited to their educations and to their habits; but the nobleman or gentleman who makes amusements of them, is surely much out of his sphere.

His mind must be sadly confined, and his time must hang heavy indeed, who would plane, and saw, and hammer, and nail, whilst the book of nature and of science is spread out before him—whilst his library is open to his researches, the whole face of the earth to his improvement, and whilst his country may de

mand his services in the senate or in the field. I beg pardon of the operative mechanical quality of my acquaintance, but I cannot help saying, that I would send a lord cabinet-maker, turner, or tailor, to keep company with a lady shoe-maker, or farrier, for such there are, and not at all admired by

THE HERMIT IN LONDON.

THE CHIMNEY SWEEPERS.

AN EASTERN TALE.

The Sultan of gave notice, that on a certain day he would entertain the nobles of his court with some field sports. The courtiers were immediately in a state of preparation, the attendants were every one upon the alert, and all was on the tip

toe of expectation, for all knew that a feast | council, by which it was concluded, that
would follow, and all were eager to follow chimney-sweepers were of use, and by pro-
a feast, as the Sultan was distinguished as clamation a pardon was offered to such as
an epicure, and his courtiers were not a would come forth from their concealments,
and operate as before. But caution and
pin behind him.
distrust had so wrought on the sable com-
munity, that not one if any had remained)
appeared. The evil increased, foul chim-
neys were every where complained of, and
a reward was added to the pardon of the
Sultan; but still without effect.

His Cook was often of more importance
than his ministers, and the culinary art was
the science in vogue.

The wished for day arrived, and at the
first dawn the huntsmen, their helpers, and
all that belonged to the train and pomp of
an eastern hunt, were in readiness.
On the Sultan himself the prospect of
the sport had made some impression, and
he did not keep his nobles more than three
hours waiting; the prostrations were made,
the Sultan was seated, and a signal was
given for his favourite repast, which on
days of exercise he was accustomed to
order; but oh! wonder of wonders! the
signal was not answered by the immediate
appearance of the banquet. It was repeated
with as little success. The courtiers who
dared to look, rolled their eyes about in all
directions, the mutes were distinctly seen
to move, and the favourite Sultana alone
dared to meet the eye of her Lord, and
finding there no immediate killing orders,
began to breathe freely; at the same mo-
ment a confused murmur was heard, and
the venerable person of the chief Cook was
geen making his way to the throne, before
the awful majesty of which, throwing him-
self as flat as the protuberance of his body
would permit, he thus began:

Light of the Sun; Splendor of the
Moon; Eclipse of the Stars; Mightier than
the mightiest! the life of thy slave is but as
a grain of sand before the "The Sultan
here cut short his speech along with his
head-the Prime Minister was dispatched
to discover the cause the chief Cook had
been so long coming, and he found the
kitchen in consternation. He learned that
the court Chimaey-sweeper, in order to
ruin the Cook, who had levied a tax in ad-
dition from the perquisites of his soot-bag,
had neglected the orders for sweeping the
chimney on the day previous to the hunt,
whereby a quantity of soot falling on the
fire, had spoiled the favourite mess.

By this time, the storm brewing on the empty stomach of the Sultan had reached its climax, and scarce had his minister intimated the occasion, when an iminediate order was given to execute all the chimneysweeps in his metropolis. A few stragglers only were found on whom to execute this summary order. The principal court Sweep, forseeing consequences, had retreated with his family, and as many of his tribe as he could warn of the mischief which he knew would follow, to a neighbouring state then at war with his quondam Prince.

But the Sultan waits-and wait he must; for as to having his victuals cooked by an ordinary cook at an ordinary kitchen, the thing was not to be done; so taking some dried sweetmeats and coffee in his Haram, the day's pleasure was reversed; but the mischief was not over, for the palace kitchen could have no fire till the chimney was cleansed, and the Sultan called a

In the mean time a few fires broke out, and a few houses were consumed, from the accumulation of soot; and such was the general panic, that men began to think of their own safety in preference to the homage due to their first magistrate; and even went so far as to accuse him of rashness, in hastily putting an end to what was discovered on all hands to be so useful and necessary a part of the community.

The Sultan continued to assemble his councils, who were instructed in all the learning and wisdom of antiquity, but who had never yet discovered that so trifling an article as sweeping a chimney might inconvenience and even menace the overthrow of a mighty empire. Insurrections were already on foot, and the precipitancy of the monarch was the ground of complaint.

The scavengers now began to feel their importance, and the city was in danger of becoming a prey to pestilence from its filth; when the Sultan, a politic man in the main, though a little too hasty, entered into negotiations with the exiled Sweep master, who, on the promise of a pardon, a place, and a pension, returned to the duties of his occupation, and brought his brethren of the brush over by making terms for them. Upon this turn of affairs, the other orders of the state returned respectively to their employment. As the Grandees had by this time undertaken to do their own dirty work, the ladies of the Seraglio made their

own beds, and the favourite Sultana was said to have been seen mending her own stockings, for as the revolt had become general, the necessity of the case was urgent, and even young sweeps were in training from the younger children of respectable families; for as a title had been added by way of a douceur to the original mover of the revolt, the profession was no longer thought degrading.

It was thus that necessity first shewed

the importance of an humble part of society, and pointed out a remedy, by putting them upon a more equal footing with the more wealthy and exalted; and the mutual compact was cemented; the Sultan gave a grand hunt on the occasion, and a tolerable Cook being obtained, a good fire and a clean chimney ensured him his favourite meal, and the day went off without the loss of a single life, except that of a boar, which they brought home in triumph.

WOODEN TOYS.

Our readers have doubtless often remarked German peasants in the streets with

figures of animals for sale, carved in wood
in a very superior manner; and they must
also frequently have noticed similar figures
in the windows of toy-shops. They are
probably ignorant that all these figures are
the work of the inhabitants of the Valley of
Gröden, in the Tyrol. This little valley
contains, on a surface of scarcely a German
square mile (about 25 English square miles,)
3,500 inhabitants, who are celebrated for
their carvings in wood. But little more
than thirty years ago, scarcely forty per-
sons followed this occupation; at present,
the number is above three hundred, and
above a hundred young men, from eighteen
to thirty years of age, are constantly trad-
ing with these goods in foreign parts. This
trade has hitherto been carried on exclu-
sively by natives of this valley, in all the
states of Europe, and has even extended to
North America. Forty years ago, Peter Young Palmer, however, had predeter-
Wallponer settled in Mexico; but in the mined in favour of the army, and after
last fifteen years some young men from some contention betwixt the surplice and
Gröden went with their carved wares to Phi- the sword, it became a drawn battle, and he
ladelphia, New York, and Charlestown, in was reluctantly compelled, at scarcely four-
North America. This work is chiefly exe- teen years of age, to leave school, and
cuted in the long winter evenings, when submit to the drudgery of mercantile pur-
they have nothing to do in the fields; and suits. Still, however, he repeated his soli-
yet above two hundred and sixty chests on citations for a commission in the army, and
an average are sent abroad every year, of the became very negligent of business, which
value of 150 florins per chest, without occasioned frequent altercations with his
reckoning what the itinerant dealers father. One day, after a violent dispute on
carry with them. It is estimated that the martial theme, young Palmer suddenly
Gröden alone receives from foreign coun- came to a resolution of levelling all impedi-
tries 54,000 florins per ann. for these arti- ments. To effect this, he bought a jacket
cles. The women of this valley are remark- and trowsers, and went into the brewery
able for their skill in making lace, which is and worked in the most laborious and ser-
also a great article of trade. The French vile parts of that business, and indeed in
government has lately given permission for every part of it, for nearly a year, associat-
all such articles carved in wood to passing all that time only with the servants,
through France without paying import or labouring and faring precisely as if he had
export duty, if they are imported by Stras-been one of them, and detaching himself en-
burg, and exported from a sea-port, as Ca-
lais, or Havre, to England or America; or
to Spain, by way of Bayonne, or a sca-port.

BIOGRAPHY.

JOHN PALMER, ESQ.

It is the part of the historian to detail the fall and rise of empires, the intrigues of cabinets, the ravages of armies, the ambition of conquerors, the instability and violence of the multitude. This, though an useful, can hardly be said to be a grateful task; but he who singles out an individual exerting the whole energies of his mind in the public service, and holds him up to the admiring world as an object of imitation and example, cannot be considered as having misapplied his time or prostituted his talents. And we hesitate not to say, that the plans of Mr. Palmer to increase the revenue, and at the same time to benefit the commercial world by a rapid intelligence of what is passing in the most remote parts of our island, cannot fail to perpetuate his name while the commerce of the country or the country itself has existence.

Mr. John Palmer was born in Bath,

where his father carried on the business of shares, and thus, as sole proprietor, fought
a brewer; his mother was descended from out the battle stoutly, and compelled his
the Longs, one of the oldest and most re-adversary at last to withdraw his opposition.
spectable families of that city. He was The great increase of the city of Bath had
sent, while very young, to an academy at rendered theatrical property more valuable,
Coleme, a few miles from Bath, then kept a larger capital was invested in it, and an
by the Rev. Mr. Needham, where he dis- endeavour was made to protect that pro-
tinguished himself by his quickness and perty by law. But from an Act of Parlia-
aptness to learn. He passed rapidly through ment then in force against the public ex-
the principal classes of the school, and hibition of dramatic performances, limiting
about that time his father was persuaded the prerogative of the crown to the grant-
by a clerical relation of the same name, re- ing any further patents or licences beyond
sident in Marlborough, to place him in the those already in existence for Covent
grammar school of that town, there being Garden and Drury Lane, some considerable
annexed to it some valuable scholarships difficulty was experienced. Accordingly a
and exhibitions, introductory to Oxford petition was presented to Parliament from
and Cambridge; and it was presumed this Mr. Palmer's father, which was warmly
would give him the chance of being pre- supported by the magistrates of the city.
ferred to one of them, as well as put him Young Palmer was deputed to solicit this
in training for the church.
novel and difficult act of legislature, and
after considerable opposition, he succeeded
in obtaining not only the protection sought,
but also His Majesty's patent. Mr. Palmer
now employed a considerable portion of
his time in the concerns of the theatre,
and acquired a very correct taste in matters
relating to the drama; he regularly took a
survey of most of the companies in the
kingdum, and had constantly by him a list
of such persons of promise as stood forward
as candidates for theatrical fame. Dimond,
Henderson, Edwin, and Mrs. Siddons,
with many other performers of the highest
order, first evinced their genius under his
fostering auspices. Mr. Palmer had no less
success in his solicitations for a patent to
the Bristol theatre, which was soon after
united to that of Bath. At this period of his
theatrical success, perhaps few men, in
point of personal ability and energy of
mind, could surpass Mr. Palmer. It is
well known to have been a common prac-
tice with him, either by relays of horses of
his own, or post, to ride from Bath o
London in a day, and not unfrequently to
dinner, and in the same rapid manner to
measure different parts of the kingdom, on
concerns of others as well as his own. But
out of these comparatively unimportant
motives of travel, sprung the first ideas of
that noble object, which was afterwards to
be of so much consequence to the riches
and commerce of his country—the inven-
tion of the Mail-coach system. Mr. Palmer,
notwithstanding these various calls upon
his time and attention, devoted himself
much to mercantile concerns, and project-
ing various improvements for benefiting
his native town. He filled all the honorary
offices of the city of Bath with the highest
degree of credit. His mayoralty will be
long remembered, as it was marked with
strong features of loyalty. During this
magistracy, Mr. Palmer published a letter
recommending a general subscription for
the service of government; the measure
was adopted by ministers; and Mr. Palmer's
relations, Mr. Long and sisters, paid the r
subscription of 3000 guineas, and Mr.
Palmer, as the originator of the design, was
not behind them in liberality.

tirely from the family. This magnanimous
resolution at length gave way, but not be-
fore his health had been so materially in-
jured, that it became necessary to call in
medical aid. Youth and time, however,
those excellent physicians, brought him
back to health of body, and to calmer feel-
ings and reflection of mind. He returned
to books and to study, and had half per-
suaded himself to enter the church, when
renovated health and renewed spirits
sounded the drum again in his ears, and
silenced all suggestions which pointed to
the gown and cassock.

Mr. Palmer senior about this time had
been induced, with nine other inhabitants
of the city of Bath, to erect a new and ele-
gant theatre, upon the assurance of the
proprietors of an existing wretched substi-
tute for one, to appropriate the old building
to some other purpose as soon as the new
house should be completed. But no sooner
was the new building finished, than the
proprietors of the old broke their faith, en-
larged and fitted up the original play-barn,
for it was little better, and in consequence
of this unfair dealing, an expensive oppo-
sition was carried on for several years, to
the loss of both parties. Mr. Palmer find-
ing that his coadjutors became tired of the
theatrical speculation, purchased their

It is needless for us to inform our readers of the important benefits which the nation

not only for his own individual services, but for having trained two sons, who do honour to their rank and profession. Colonel Palmer, the member for Bath, has distinguished himself by his valour in the field; and the merits of Captain Palmer, of the Royal Navy, have been conspicuously shown in such professional knowledge and heroism, as render him an ornament to his country.

Mr. Palmer had been for some time in a very indifferent state of health, and had removed to Brighton for the benefit of change of air, where he expired, at a very advanced age (75) on Sunday the 16th ult. universally lamented as well for his public services as for his personal merits.

Those, indeed, who knew him longest and most intimately, speak in the most enthusiastic terms of his virtues, and in the language of the deepest affliction for his loss. That he was a man to be lamented we are certain from the characters of those who are among his chief mourners;-good men deplore only the good, and many such deplore the late John Palmer, of whose useful life it is to be hoped some more permanent memorial will be created than it has been in our power to erect.

of Madame Branchu, the ravishing tones of Madame Albert, the fine voice of Derevis, the skill of Lecompte, the excellent adaptation of the ballets, and the magnificence of the spectacle (says a Parisian critic) will ensure it a long existence.

the necessity of withdrawing it for a few unjust hisses. Such, however, was the situation of M. Duval in 1809, after the first representation of his Chevalier d'Industrie, which is now revived. The most striking defects of this comedy were then M. Sans Souci, or the Painter in Prison, declared to be a total absence of gaiety, too has been produced at the Varietés. M. deep a tone of satire, the extreme vulSans Souci, a young artist of talent and spi- rendered the character disgusting, and garity of the Chevalier d'Industrie, which rit, generally spends three quarters of the year in prison for debt. Even this confine- finally, an episode, which being entirely ment has charms for him, or he at least unconnected with the main plot, occasioned makes a virtue of necessity, as the follow-obscurity, and retarded the action. The piece has undergone many advantageous ing air testifies:alterations, and was more favourably received on its revival.

Je ne connais pas d'homme au monde
Plus fortuné qu'un prisonnier.
En Prison pour lui tout abonde;

Qui de nous pourrait le nier?
Sans aucun soins

Pour ses besoins,

Il peut dormir la grasse matinée;
Il peut chanter

Il peut rester

VARIETIES.

Scandalous Imposition.

there is one deserving of particular notice. He declares that he can discover the temper and habits of any individual by a mere sight of his hand-writing: relying on the authority of some accidental success, he requires only to see a note to be enabled to pronounce an opinion on the character of the writer.

him a considerable fortune; but, that he The father of our young Philosopher left might devote himself entirely to his favourite study undisturbed by domestic cares, he determined to marry, and to consign the management of his property to a man of business. He could find no difficulty in fixing his choice in either of these two delicate cases: for he possessed an infallible security against being deceived. He might have married most advantageously, in point of fortune; but, contrary to all expectation, he made choice of a young lady with whom he was entirely unacquainted: but THE MOST PROFITABLE PUBLICATION in he had seen a letter addressed by her to England, notwithstanding the extensive one of his friends. He admired the beauty circulation of the Scott and Byron of the hand-writing. The regularity and works, of Cookery books, and Evangelical delicate turning of the letters bespoke genhistories of dying sinners, (we beg pardon, tleness and equality of temper. She was saints,) of Newspapers and Literary perio- exactly the woman to whom he wished to Sans Souci has an amour with the Gao-dicals-the most profitable publication in be united. He had never seen her, but he ler's daughter, who is intended by her father England must be-what? the Triennial asked her in marriage, and obtained her for another, whom the Painter personates Directory!!! The purveyors for this ele-hand. With regard to the Steward, his in the usual dramatic fashion. He refuses gant and classical work require one shilling choice was determined by observing that to paint the capture of a French ship for a as an admission fee for every name and his hand-writing was regular and well proforeigner, and this patriotic trait recom-address it contains; that is to say, they de- portioned: this man, said he, must possess order and method. He immediately resigned to him the entire control of his affairs, and thus freed from all earthly troubles he gave himself wholly up to study.

A table enfin pendant une journée.
Qu' importe, s'il perd l'equilibre?
Qu' importe, s'il perd la raison?
On n'en voit rien: c'est en prison

Que l'on est vraiment libre?

mends him to the favour of fortune. The piece was not however successful. Haguenier, ou L'Habit de Cour, a comic vaudeville, in one act, at the Porte St. Martin, has some pleasing songs, but little other merit to recommend it.

Theatre Royal de l'Opera Comique. Le

Bohemien is a revival of La Ceinture Magique of J. B. Rousseau, which was condemned on its first representation long ago. The music by a young composer, M. de Chamcourtois, has been better received than the piece, which it is likely to sustain for a short period.

Le deux Valentine at the Theatre du Vaudeville is founded on a resemblance between the two performers, Joly and Melcourt: its intrigues and quiproquos resemble those of the Comedy of Errors, and, as many of the situations are humorous, the piece was well received.

Second Théâtre-Français is altogether a local satire on the Paris Theatres and performers. It was entirely successful at the Varietés.

Deux Miliciens, at the same Theatre, was ill written and ill played. Its want of novelty and merit sent it to the shades.

THEATRE FRANÇAIS. Revival of the Chevalier d'Industrie. A comedy in five acts, and in verse, is not an every day production, and when an author succeeds, we will not say in completing it, but in getting it brought forward, it is mortifying that he should be under |

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now lies before us.

mand from the individuals a payment for
making perfect that which they sell at a
heavy price, in consequence of its pretend-
ed fulness and accuracy! One of these
modest gentlemen was last week taking his
circuit at the West end of the town, and
impudence to write on the card of the party
where this shilling was refused, he had the
name rejected," one of which
refusing,
fession of a rapacious spirit, determined to
A more insulting con-
print a faulty Directory, unless so gross an
under our cognizance, and we deem it due
imposition was sanctioned, never came
to the public to announce, that such is the
manner in which this Publication is got up.
When it is considered that the number of
names may amount, at a shilling each, to
from six to ten thousand pounds, and that
the book is not given away, but sold at a
very high rate, it will, we think, be evident
that "THE TRIENNIAL DIRECTORY" is the
most profitable (or imperfect) Publication
in England!!
A CORRESPONDENT.

But, alas! his happiness was not of long duration. At the conclusion of a year, hahalf, he was obliged to obtain a separation rassed by the pettish temper of his better from her. It was necessary to provide a himself no concern on that point, leaving it suitable settlement for his wife, but he gave to the probity of his methodical Steward. his confidence had been abused, and that What was his astonishment on finding that the honest Steward had borrowed money on his security, mortgaged the rents of his farms, and left him on the brink of ruin. One of his friends, whose hand-writing had never inspired him with any favourable opinion, on learning this two-fold misfortune, came to offer him all the service in his power. You see, said the friend, that your system is not quite infallible, and that you have been deceived on two important points. Yes, replied our Philosopher, very coolly, -but the exceptions prove the rule.

The celebrated M. Blumenbach of Göt

New Method of ascertaining Characters by the Hand Writing.-Nosce te ipsumKnow yourself, says an ancient Philoso- tingen, has lately presented to the Society pher; but our modern Philosophers have of Sciences of that city, two skulls, selectabandoned this task for the sake of know-ed from the two opposite extremes of huing other people. This, without contradic-man nature. One is the skull of an ancient tion, is the most difficult of all studies, and one which has from time immemorial formed a subject for the meditation of Physiologists. Some have hoped to gain their object by observing the features, and others by examining the protuberances of the cranium. But among these systematizers,

Greek, which M. Blumenbach received from the Prince Royal of Bavaria; the other is that of a Butocude (a savage of Brazil,) which was presented to him by Prince Maximilian, of Neuwied. These two skulls, as may well be supposed, present a most singular contrast.

Equitation and Geography.-Buffon observes, that a man's mind is seen by his style; but it may be said, with no less truth, that a man's mind is seen by the title of

his works.

EPIGRAM.
Mensa loquitur.

Sunt mihi crura pedesque; sed asto semper in

aede;

Hoc sequere exemplum, virgo, marita, parens.

C: D.

A book has lately made its appearance in Paris, entitled, A Manual of Equitation and Geography. It will naturally be asked, The Austrian Government has just issued what is the connexion between spurs and at Milan an order relative to the Press; of promontories, saddles and bridles and the which the following are the principal artifour quarters of the globe, &c. &c.? The cles: "No book can appear without the author accounts for this combination in the permission of the Censure; even catalogues following way: With a view, he says, of must be examined; a special commission facilitating to youth a cours of instruction, must be obtained to reprint books already equally necessary and agreeable, I have published in the Austrian monarchy. Decombined together two little treatises on dications cannot be admitted to the Censure, Geography and Equitation. This is plausi-unless they are provided with the authorible enough; but why does his Manual treat zation of the persons to whom the books only of these two useful and agreeable are dedicated. No subject of his Majesty sciences? Doubtless because the author the Emperor and King can have a book knew no other, and he was anxious to con- printed in a foreign country without having tribute all he could to the instruction of submitted it to the Austrian Censure." the rising generation.

There is almost as much ingenuity in the title of a work published at Namur, which the Brussels Oracle strongly recommends to its Belgian readers. It is-Fragmens de Phistoire de Liege et de l'homme!!

The following accounts of both branches of the Arctic Expedition have been made public:

"From the Northern Expedition, under Capt. Ross, letters dated the 8th July, in lat. 74, have been received. The two ships were then off a remarkable point of land, called by Baflin the Devil's Thumb; but the letters state no other particulars than that all was well, and that they were, at the moment of writing, impeded in their progress by the ice.

The Chevalier Thorwalsden, the Danish sculptor, who has been frequently noticed in the Literary Gazette, is now occupied on a colossal bust of Gen. Maitland, Governor General of the Ionian Isles, for the Town Hall of Corfu. The Monument of Prince Poniatowski, on which he is also employed at Rome, will cost nearly 500,000 Polish florins. The voluntary subscriptions amounted to 324,641 florins.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

subscribers to a miscellany at once so cheap and valuable.

who are occupied in illustrating the auAmongst the English travellers in Italy cient remains of that wonderful country, Mr. Henry Wilkins, brother to the gentleman so well known by his celebrated work on Magna Grecia, has been for some time preparing a general view of the present state of Pompeii, its ruins, excavations, &c.-This work will comprise thirtytwo engravings on a large scale, a groundplan of the city, exact representation of all the recent discoveries up to February 1818, together with a description of the most leading and interesting objects.

has in his possession a great number of The Mayor of a Commune of La Vendée letters and other manuscripts of Voltaire, which he obtained from Thiriot, one of the most active correspondents of the philosopher of Ferney. Among these manuscripts is one of a very curious nature; it is a poetical dedication of the Henriade, addressed to Louis XV. M. François de Neufchateau has announced to the French Academy, that he hopes to procure this important manuscript, and in that case it was to have been read at the Sitting of the 25th, the day appointed for the inauguration of the Statue of Henry IV.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

AUGUST.

Thursday, 27-Thermometer from 55 to 65.
Barometer from 30, 04 to 29, 90.
Wind SbW. 1.-General cloud; raining most
of the afternoon.

Friday, 28-Thermometer from 57 to 70.

Barometer from 29, 86 to 30, 00. Wind WbS. snd W. 2.-Morning cloudy, the rest of the day rather clearer.

Rain fallen, 05 of an inch.

Barometer from 30, 13 to 30, 16.
Wind SbW. and W. §.-Generally clear.
Sunday, 30-Thermometer from 54 to 71.
Barometer from 30, 06 to 30, 11.
Wind SW. 1.-Generally cloudy.
Monday, 31-Thermometer from 37 to 71.

We have much pleasure in noticing by an advertisement in our paper of this day, the spirit with which that excellent miscellany The other division, under Capt. Bu- the New Monthly Magazine proceeds; and chan, was seen by a whaler on the 8th July, it is but an act of justice towards the Confast to the ice, in a latitude short of 80." ductors to remark, that this Miscellany has Canova, the Sculptor, has lately sent fully justified the high claims of its projec- Saturday, 29-Thermometer from 47 to 76. three female heads of exquisite workman-jectors, who announced their intention of ship to this country. They are presents rendering it "a Theatre for discussions on from him to the Duke of Wellington, Lord every subject that can interest the human Castlereagh, and the Right Hon. Charles mind; an asylum for the fugitive producLong. He was recently at Naples, where tions of Genius and Fancy; a Register of he went to superintend the cast of the every Novelty in the Arts, Sciences, and bronze horse, of which he has made the Chronicle of the Times, equally acceptable Letters; in a word, a complete Record and model, for the Equestrian Statue conseto the Scholar and the Philosopher, to the crated by the filial piety of the King to the man of leisure and the man of business." memory of his august father, Charles III. The dimensions of this monument surpass those of all others of the same kind which have been raised in modern times. He is also executing a statue of Washington, for the Government of the United States.

Barometer from 30, 17 to 30, 06. Wind S. and SbE. 4.—Clear.

SEPTEMBER.

Teslay, 1-Thermometer from 45 to 74.

Barometer from 29, 78 to 29, 76. Wind SE. and SbW. 2.-Generally cloudy. Wednesday, 2—Thermometer from 48 to 70. Barometer from 29, 90 to 30, 09. Wind SW.-Generally clear.

The sound principles on which this Magazine was established have done much towards its success, by inducing men of the first eminence to enrich its pages with their communications. The high literary charac- To those that have Telescopes, Saturn is now ter thus acquired, combined with its ortho- a fine object in the South East about eight in the dox sentiments on Politics, Morals and Re-evening, and passes the meridian about midnight.

The King of Prussia has presented the President of Corpus Christi College, Ox-ligion, recommend it strongly to the favourford, with a beautiful porcelain vase, in able notice of every friend to literature, testimony of the homage and urbanity and every lover of his country, more espewhich that society paid to his Majesty cially at a period when so many periodical while resident within their walls, during works of the day are mere vehicles of slanthe imperial visit of 1814. The vase was der, impiety, and isaffection. To friends manufactured at Berlin. One side of it is and relations abroad we know of no publicaenriched with a miniature portrait of the tion that can prove so acceptable, and doubt illustrious donor, and on the other there is not that the commencement of a new Voa representation of the city of Berlin. lume will induce many persons to become

On Thursday, September 10th, at 9 hours Satellite of Jupiter will emerge from an eclipse. 9 minutes 18 seconds, clock time, the second

Latitude 51. 37. 32. N. Longitude 3.51 W.. Edmonton, Middlesex. JOHN ADAMS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. John's Kite wants a tale; we cannot furnish paper to fly it,