THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND little boy who, gratefully, remembers being dull.' 66 θεών δ' ετελείετο βάλω. Here I stopped him, for fear that he and have hurried me with him; and I asked should have gone all over the Continent, him what were his purposes." As follow, worthy Sir," resumed the Youth: "It is my intention, first, to make a tour of the Continent of Europe, and of the Greek Isles, to become a member of a number of foreign Universities, and to have as many BIOGRAPHY. THE RIGHT HON. WARREN HASTINGS. tractors, and the devil and all. Vous me permettrez mon ami-you will allow menatico per la scienza," such as the worthy the Institute, and a promise to take me to not a bad play might be written on "Il fato peruse this billet.-It is an invitation to friend described of an experiment of the Voltaic pile. A fine thing, no doubt! I know the principle, THE HERMIT IN LONDON. as one ought to know the principle of the solar and lunar systems. Talking of every thing, from the five per cents up to hand, every measure goes through-the That superior and shining talents, and the the Sun, the Prince carries it with a high But tell me-Quid agis? What are Indemnity Act, etcetera. your present pursuits?-Moral or experi- orders- Such is our will.' It will be individual powers from humble and obscure these demigods of ministers will issue their do often emerge by the force and energy of By and by, highest determination of character in life, mental Philosophy, Zoology, Mineralogy, Conchology, or Geology, Metaphysics, old Magna Charta at last, I know not. It been better illustrated than in the instance Philology, Anatomy, Ethics, Natural will be Carta Pecora, or Carte blanche, I of the subject of the following memoir, What will become of origin, is a fact which perhaps has never History, or the Belles Lettres? 1 have believe-By the bye, how they are stulti- whose great abilities and application raised heard of f you. I know that you are a savant, fied in France! No nerve! a general para-him to the most eminent and important a man of virtu, one of the cognoscenti, of lysis!"the dillettanti, a man of science, and a leader of bon gout." of one less than a monarch; and we are situations which almost ever fell to the lot He overpowered me, but I put in a forded us of impressing upon the rising gealways happy in having an opportunity affew words. Well," said he, abruptly, neration, that Palma non sine pulvere. The we have a fine status quo of affairs, poliprospects of Mr. Hastings in the early part tical and general. Pretty work this elecof his life were not the most brilliant. Altion, great efforts at an oligarchy-at a de though descended from an ancient family, mocracy or a mobocracy if you please. which formerly held considerable landed They would give us a republique non libre, possessions, his more immediate ancestors as Montesquieu calls it. You see liberty comes to. A.M's. F.R.S's. A. double S.S. and initials were not in affluent circumstances. His It is that libertas which of science, as will fill the title page of a father, who was a clergyman, and enjoyed in vitium excidit et vim dignam lege rege. book, tacked to my name. I mean to write a benefice at Churchill, a village near Aye, the Life Guards will settle that. But my tour, and to have it printed on fine wove, Daylesford in Worcestershire, seems to it is truly shocking amputations and frac-hot-pressed, royal octavo paper, with a have left him entirely without fortune, for tures, lacerations and dislocations are the flattering engraving of self, in an antique the expense, as well as the charge of his effects of the poll; in consequence of those costume. I will get a needy foreigner to education, devolved on his uncle, Mr. emulations and strifes, those contentions make drawings; and I will dedicate it to Howard Hastings, who sent him to Westand passions which war in our members' some leading man. -hem! It is every where the same. the revolations of France, of Holland, of ad sidera.' I'll have two mottos, one in and kindness of strangers;-DoctorNichols, Videurgh Reviewers up to the skies- Usque lative he was thrown entirely upon the care I'll praise the Edin-minster School. On the death of this rethe Colonies. Odi profanum vulgus. These Greek and one in Hebrew, to the book; and, the head Master of Westminster, having demagogue Demosthenes poison the public on my return from the Continent, I'll give generously offered to furnish money to mind, intoxicate weak brains with their dinners to all the celebrated booksellers in complete his education at Oxford, to which frothy oratory; themselves being the worst of private characters; and then leave the po- of the work; and have the second and third Creswick, an India Director, and executown. I'll purchase up one hundred copies place he had recently been removed;-Mr. polaccio to a sense of their own wretched-editions issued out simultaneously with the tor to his uncle, proposing at the s me time Thus it is that to send him to Bengal, with a writer's appointment, when his education should be niary circumstances were at this period, the completed. Whatever Mr. Hastings' pecuoffer of Dr. Nichols is a strong presumption in behalf of his talents and character as a youth. ness. what our a spe Belle parole e cateni fatti first. Thus ushered into celebrity, my next Ingannano savi e matti. ambition will be to get into parliament, and Apropos, but for these elections the town with M.P. attached to all the other distincto make a thundering maiden speech: then would be a desert. At the Court end of tions of a nian of alphabetical as well as of the town it is a memento mori, a rus in learned letters, I may publish any thing, urbe. The grass is actually growing in and I shall be known as an author. Lastly, the streets; and the sight of a nobleman's carriage is a treat. (Then turning to the must discover some theory, and publish it, kind offer of Mr. Creswick, left England. I propose retiring to my Tusculum, where implements around him) You see, said he, by which means I shall be called by the in the Winter of 1749, and arrived at Calmy amusements and occupations, Chemis-name of my theory, and thus be rendered cutta in the ensuing Summer. His introMr. Hastings, availing himself of the try, Anatomy, Geology (holding up cimen of basalt,) and History. That mul-retire to the country, there ducere solici- properly be dated from this period, for he immortal. All this accomplished, I shall duction into public life may therefore very tum in parvo litle fellow is taking my bust ta jocunda oblivia vitæ,' and there end the says of himself, in his defence to the im(pointing to a deformed Italian.) The scene in the arms of the Muses." other is ny Spanish master, who is writing my exercise. · Su servidor; vira usted tions friend, young Drudge. The reader may service of the East India Company, and Here concluded the projects of my ambi- India, peachment which followed his return from bowing him out.) This cranium was that sure him it is faithful. Through a long life, official habits, all the knowledge which I. (to the language master, consider the picture as charged; but I as"With the year 1750 I entered the of a dog, the most intellectual (if I dare many objects must have passed before possess, and all the principles which were from that service I have derived all my use the phrase) that ever was. The animal my eyes, and I have, amongst the number, to regulate my conduct in it." Whatever, was a Roman; and I am examining the cerebellum, (his Servant enters with a letter.) have fanatics of all kinds, religious, politi- tages, Mr. Hastings was fairly prepared to met with more than one of this cast. That fellow I keep because I made an ex-cal, poetical, physical, and metaphysical. participate in them all. He was acute, ól›We therefore, were its advantages or disadvanperiment on him. He was as deaf as the We have fanatics in love, in printing, and serving, and enterprising, and was soon Tarpeian rock, and I cured him by electri- in all the fine arts. Every body must have placed in the midst of affairs with great city. After trying magnetism, the metallic scen Il fanatico per la musica ;" and, exterior advantages. He was at first at muchos annos tached to one of the factories in Bengal, from which he was soon sent on business into the interior parts of that province, where, to novelty of scene, were added opportunities for study, and interesting motives for inquiry, which Mr. Hastings seldom permitted to pass without profiting by them. He applied himself assiduously to the attainment of the Persian language, and to the inquiry into the nature and circumstances of the English establishments in India. linquent, is among the greatest of public in the High Court of Justice in Westmin- In 1756, Surajah Doulah, having made himself master of Calcutta, issued orders for seizing all the English in Bengal, and Mr. Hastings was one of those who were carried prisoners to Moorshadabad, that Tyrant's capital. Even at that Court, Mr. Hastings acquired protectors, and received marks of favour. When Colonel Lord Clive retook Calcutta, Mr. Hastings served as a volunteer in his army, and was present at the night attack of the Nabob's camp. On the restoration of the East India Company's possessions by Lord Clive, Mr. The unprecedented duration of the trial Hastings returned to his civil employments; was an evil of an enormous extent, both as and when Surajah Doulah was deposed, he it bore upon the public and Mr. Hastings, was appointed the English minister at the but it was more especially grievous to the court of his successor. In that post he re-latter. The expenses to the public, of this commended himself still further to notice, trial, amounted to more than 100,000l. and and in 1761 was made a Member of the Mr. Hastings' law expenses to more than Government of Bengal. About 1765, Mr. 60,000l. In consideration of the latter, and Hastings returned to England; but having of his services, the East India Company brought with him only a part of his acqui-voted him an annual pension of 4000/. for sitions, and his remittances of the remain- twenty-eight years and a half, amounting to der, owing to some circumstance, failing, 114,000l. of which the Company gave him he employed all his interest to be allowed 42,0007. in advance, and lent him beside to return to India; and it is a curious fact, 50,0001.* that this very person, who afterwards became all-powerful with the Company, could not at that time obtain such a permission. He therefore applied himself to the cultivation of literature, and to the enjoyment of the society of men of genius. The year after his arrival in London, he submitted a proposition for establishing a professorship for the Persian language at Oxford, with a view, among other motives, to his obtain ing the emoluments of that situation in aid of his own income, which proposition was never seriously considered, probably owing to the following unexpected event: In the Winter of 1766, Mr. Hastings, being examined at the bar of the House of Commons on some affairs of the Mr. Hastings' literary attainments are East India Company, attracted general no- certainly very extraordinary for a man who tice by the masterly and comprehensive passed more than 33 years of his life in nature of his statements; and the conse-active scenes of business, in such a service quence was his appointment, in 1767, to be as that of the East India Company, and that a member of the council of Madras, with a entered upon before he was 17 years of age. provision that he was to succeed to the His literary productions are numerous, but government. In the former situation he re- the following will sufficiently establish his mained till 1771, when the Company ap-reputation as an author:-Narrative of the pointed him Governor of Bengal, which was Insurrection at Benares, 4to. 1782; Review confirmed to him under various acts of the of the State of Bengal during the last three British parliament, till 1784, when he remonths of his Residence, 8vo. 1786; Meturned to England. moirs relative to the State of India, 8vo. 1786; Answer to the Articles exhibited by the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in Parliament assembled, 8vo. 1788; Speech It is impossible to touch upon the scenes of Mr. Hastings' interesting and splendid government over an extent of territory as large and as populous as all the nations of Europe united, but with great delicacy and discrimination. To screen the public de possessed of inexhaustible wealth—a belief which future events showed to be un Mr. Hastings brought from India a quantity of precious jewels which the revolutions in that country threw into his hands: these were principally presented to Her Majesty: and there is to be seen at this day in Buckingham House, the throne of the Bengal Sovereign, almost covered with We believe that the general opinion now diamonds. These offerings inspired the betical intrigue, and that in the attack on him is, that Mr. Hastings was the victim of poli-lief that the Governor General himself was there was more of party purpose than of personal vindictiveness, though his alleged themes and gorgeous colouring for the adoppressions in India furnished captivating Mr. Hastings married a widow lady, with some family, but has left none of his own. mirable displays of eloquence to which this He was a Doctor of Civil Law, and a Memtrial gave birth. His acquittal was therefore ber of the Privy Council. During the latter verdict-that the man so long and so dread- horticultural amusements; and he died at not merely an absolution from crime, but a years of his life, he was much attached to fully persecuted had been the saviour of our his seat, Daylesford House, WorcesterEastern Empire. Such, by those best ac-shire, on the 22d ult. in the 86th year of his quainted with Indian affairs, he has been almost unanimously esteemed. * Annual Register 1795-but there have been later grants. founded. age, beloved by all who knew him, and universally venerated. This sketch indeed renders his memory but feeble justice. His biography is a desideratum to Literature and to History-the former of which he adorned, and to the latter of which his actions belong, being those of one of the greatest and most distinguished individuals even of our prolific era. + Dictionary of Living Authors, 8vo. THE DRAMA. DRURY LANE.-The most marked difference between Drury Lane Theatre and other shops where they endeavour to attract customers by" Selling off at Reduced Prices," is, that the latter, if not altogether fraudulent, generally have it in view to dispose of their old shopkeepers, whereas at the former, the expedient is resorted to | in order to get rid of their new pieces. dients, it is a very ridiculous and stupid The times have been, That, when a piece was d-d, the thing would die, And there an end: but now they rise again, Than such curs'd nonsense is. Of Sigismar we shall say little more- VARIETIES. OCTOBER.-This month was called Domitianus in the time of Domitian; but after his death, by the decree of the Senate, it took the name of October, every one despising the name and memory of so It was called Wyndetestable a tyrant. monut by the Saxons, because they made wine in it. Remarkable Days. 1st. St. Remigius. Remigius was lorn at Landen, was Bishop of Rheims 74 years, and died A. D. 535, aged 96.-6th. St. Faith. This Virgin Martyr suffered death under Dacianus about the year 290.-8th. The Jewish fast of Rush Hashonah, to celebrate the return of the Jews from Babylon after the destruction of the first Temple.-9th. St. Denys. St. Denys, or Dionysius, the Areopagite, was converted to Christianity by St. Paul, Acts xvii.-13th. Translation of King Edward the Confessor. Edward was the youngest son of King Ethelred; he succeeded to the crown of England in the year 1042. He collected all the most useful laws made by the Saxon and Danish kings, and incorporated them. The title On Monday, Mr. Kean made his bow for of Confessor was given him by the Pope, the season, as Richard III. He was greeted for settling what was then called Romewith tumultuous acclamations, which he scot, but now known by the name of Peter's condescended to notice graciously, though pence. His crown; chair, staff, spurs, &c. are still used at the coronation of our Engslightly. His performances presented nothing for comment, unless it were the pre-lish kings.-17th. St. Etheldreda. She was posterous length of his pauses. We feel a princess of distinguished piety, daughter how a look or an action can fill up a blank of Anna, King of the East Angles, and far beyond grammatical rule; but there is Hereswitha his Queen; was born in the She founded the Conventual no trick imaginable that can supply the year 630. vacuum of Mr. Kean's dreary and unmean- Church of Ely, and the adjoining Monastery, of which she was constituted Abbess. The character of the goods exhibited since our last, however, has rather improved, and the house is better filled, we know not how. On Thursday (24th ult.) Venice Preserved was performed, with the novelties of Jaffier, Pierre, and Belvidera, by Mr. D. Fisher, Mr. Cleary, and Mrs. West. The lady displayed a better conception of the part and greater powers than she evinced in her previous attempt at Desdemona; in short, she was interesting throughout, and occasionally pathetic. There was also a judgment in her acting, of which we highly approve: nothing was over-done for mere effect, and to split the ears of the groundlings. We will not say that we have not seen superior Belvideras, —but this was equal and pleasing. Jaffier is a bad and dangerous character for a debut. He who passes unscathed through the trial, has considerable merit, which is the case with Mr. David Fisher, so called, we suppose, to distinguish him from the great Fisher-Clara. The puling, womanish, irresolute Jaffier, has few scenes in which he can favourably distinguish himself; and where we can neither respect, wonder at, or feel strongly excited by the daring crimes of a character, it is not easy for an actor to command our sympathy. Where he could, we think Mr. Fisher generally did produce a sensation; and even where he erred, there was a fire and spirit about him which, with discretion and study, will transform the blemishes of his Jaffier into the beauties of other parts. He does not seem to manage his voice well. Of the Pierre we wish we could dispense with speaking. Mr. Cleary is a hearty conspi-ing rator, but he did more by his manner of conducting the plot than is set down for him-the conspiracy being solely against the Senate and State of Venice, and not against the taste and patience of the audience. Pierre is a soldier and a gentleman; one of "the master spirits of the age" engaged in a deed of intellectual difficulty, as well as personal peril. With this performer it was all coarse, corporeal, and vulgar. Instead of the fine intrigue of an Italian, he shewed himself the fitter hero of a "mealtub plot." SIGISMAR, THE SWITZER. -A new serious Melo-drame, under this title, was produced on Saturday. Our readers know what a melo-drame is. It is a great mass of absurdities jumbled together; whether with order, as in some instances, or without order, as in the present instance, is very immaterial. There are forests and rocks, and precipices, and prisons; and a stalking-talking hero in great tribulation; and a heroine, or faithful servant (the former most approved,) through whose odd manoeuvres he escapes all other misfortunes to be married at last; and there are soldiers, banditti, peasants, &c. as wanted for battles, accidents and processions, chorusses and dances. Now, though Sigismar the Switzer possesses an adequate proportion of all, or nearly all these ingre chasms. Mr. H. Kemble played Richmond indifferently. MR. MUNDEN returned to his station on Wednesday, as Sir Abel Handy, in Speed the Plough. He is as rich in grimace as ever, and we never expect to see an actor so full of it who will afford us so much pleasure. Either from custom, or from the great talent which gilds even his peculiarities, we could ill spare that in Munden which in others we should consider a fault, and, as critics, would not spare. --18th. St. Luke-was born at Antioch. Luke lived a single life, and died in the 84th year of his age, about the year of Christ 70.-25th. Accession of King George the Third. This took place in the year 1760.-St. Crispin. Crispin was born at Rome, from whence he removed to Soissons, in France, about the year 303. He was there beheaded, about the year 308, for having espoused the Christian faith.26th. Proclamation of King George the Third.-28th. St. Simon and St. Jude. Appearance of the Heavens in Oct. 1818. The Moon passes the ecliptic in her descending node on the 1st, at 10 at night, in the 13th degree of the 7th sign, and her Southern latitude increases to the 8th, when at noon it is 5 degrees in the 4th degree of the 11th sign. It then decreases to the 14th, when she passes the ecliptic in her acending node about 11 at night in the 13th degree of the 1st sign. Her Northern latitude Now increases to the 23d, when it is 5 degrees 17 minutes North in the 1st degree of the 5th sign, and it decreaseth to the 29th, when she passes the ecliptic in her descending node at 8 in the morning, in the 13th degree of the 7th sign. Her Southern latitude then increases to * Refinedly substituted for vulgar "stools" the end of the month, being on the last at by a modern actress. COVENT GARDEN.-This Theatre conti- Mrs. Billington, the celebrated singer, died on the 26th of August, at St. Artien, near Venice. Her vocal powers were extraordinary; and had her course in life been as pure as the talent with which she was endowed, it is not improbable that many years of fame and happiness would have been added to her lot. midnight, 3 degrees 20 minutes in the 9ht degree of the 9th sign.—Mercury is a morning star at his greatest elongation on the 10th. His latitude on the 1st is 15 minutes South.-Venus is an evening star at her greatest elongation on the 14th. She will be seen at first in the South-West at sun set; but from the unfavourableness of her position and Southern latitude, it will not be very distinct.-Mars is also an evening star, but in such an unfavourable position, that he is in the horizon before the diminution of the solar light will permit him to be discernible.—Jupiter is on the meridian at past 5 in the afternoon of the 1st. He is seen first above and near the 11th of the Archer. The Moon passes him on the 6th. FRACTURED VIOLINS. ANECDOTE.-William Bilderdyck, so generally admired as the first Poet that modern Holland has produced, and not less distinguished by the other brilliant qualities father, who formed an unfavourable opiof his mind, did not in his youth seem to shew any happy disposition for study. His nion of his talents, was much distressed, and frequently reproached him in severe which young Bilderdyck did not appear to pay much attention. In 1776, the father, stimulate him by shewing the adverwith a newspaper in his hand, came to tisement of a prize offered by the Society of Leyden, and decreed to the Author of a piece of Poetry signed with these words: terms for his inattention and idleness; to relief the mild injunctions of her reverend Preceptor, who at length presented her with an essay on the government of the passion of anger. A short time after, she fell into a violent rage with one of her attendants; and midst of it by the entrance of the prelate on being surprised in the with the exclamation, "I fear you have not read the book I gave you, Madam, the other day!" she instantly replied, in a repressed tone of voice, “Yes, indeed, Sir, I have; and had I not, I am sure I should have knocked her down." It is only doing justice to her reverend Preceptor, and to the memory of his illustrious pupil, to say, that by his careful admonitions, and her watchful obedience, a complete triumph over a naturally warm temper was effectually ensured considerably previous to the period of her union with the man she loved. An ancient Cemetery has been dug into in clearing away the ground for the New Post Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand. A quantity of human bones, thrown promis-youcuously together, have been found in one of the vaults, and an ancient stone coffin in another. The construction of the vaults is He had noticed (he said) that a violin, altogether handsome. St. Martin's-le-Grand broken, and well mended, was considerably was originally a College, founded anno 700 improved in its tone; that he had witnessed by Wythred, King of Kent; but William this effect in several instances; and had the Conqueror and Heary III. added himself designedly broken one or two vio-greatly to its endowments and privileges. lins of inferior value, for the purpose of None of these remains are earlier than the rying the experiment, which he found to era of the last mentioned monarch; and answer his expectations. the bones were probably huddled together at the Reformation. The floor is about 20 feet below the level of Newgate Street. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR, The remarks in your Publication, No. 87, on the tones, ages, and prices of Violins,recall to my remembrance a curious observation, which I heard, many years since, from a travelled gentleman, who was an excellent performer on that instrument, and a good judge of its intrinsic merits. How far the instrument was improved in any of those cases, I cannot pretend to say: neither do I myself vouch for the fact; though I have not the slightest reason to LINLITHGOW PALACE, So celebrated in question either the gentleman's veracity or Scottish history, is under repair, by order his judgement. Neither am I disposed to of the Barons of the Exchequer. We trust inquire, how, or to what degree, the tone the design will be judiciously conducted. of the instrument may be affected by the The workmen have found an exquisitely interruption in the continuity of the wood, well carved Lion-rampant, of wood, about or the interposition of the glue in the frac-2 feet in length, gilt and painted vermillion, among the rubbish in one of the tures: but Granting the fact to be as stated by my informant, I would beg leave to suggest to our instrument-makers the idea of improving the hint, by making, for experiment' sake, a violin composed of very thin sharings of wood, glued one over the other in different directions, till brought to the proper thickness. JOHN CAREY rooms. at An Author eighteen years old;" who was invited to make himself known. "You ought to blush, idler," said old Bilderdyck to his son, "here is a boy who is only of your age, and, though so young, is the pride and happiness of his parents; and "It is myself,' answered young William, throwing himself into his father's arms. A gentleman, resident at Harrow, made frequent complaints to the Masters of the great school there, of his garden being stripped of its fruit, even before it became ripe but to no purpose. Tired of applying to the Masters for redress, he at length appealed to the boys, and sending for one to his house, he said, "Now, my good fellow, I'll make this agreement with you and your campanions: let the fruit remain on the trees till it become ripe, and I promise to give you half." The boy coolly replied, "I can say nothing to the proposition, Sir, myself, but will make it known to the rest of the boys, and inform you of their decision to-morrow. To-morrow came, and with it this reply: "The gentlemen of Harrow cannot agree to receive so unequal a share, since Mr. is an individual, and we are many." EXTRAORDINARY ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGES. — A clergyman being on the road to his At a recent Meeting of the country living, (to which he pays an annual Shropshire Auxiliary Bible Society, Arch-visit), was stopped by a friend, who asked deacon Corbett, in a speech delivered on him, where he could be going so far from that occasion, drew a parallel between Mr. town?" Like other poor people,” replied Samuel Lee (one of the preachers) and the he, "to my parish." Admirable Crichton. From the Reverend This might easily be effected on a mould Gentleman's statement, it Sir Brook Watson was an extremely poappears, that of plaster of Paris; and, if found success- Mr. Lee had merely the education of a vil-lite man; and one who knew him well, ful, the plan might perhaps be advanta- lage school (where he was born, about 6 upon hearing that he had lost a leg by the geously extended to the harp, the piano, &c.miles from Shrewsbury), viz. reading, wri- bite of a shark while bathing in the sea, I am, &c. ting, and arithmetic; that he left school exclaimed, "Ah! I can see how that was; 12 years of age, to learn the trade of a if he had not staid to make a bow to the carpenter and builder. While thus em- shark, the accident would never have hapGreek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Saployed he became, self-taught, a Latin, pened." maritan scholar. These languages he acquired in six years, at the hours during which he was relieved from manual labour. Since that period, Mr. Lee has had more assistance, and is now, in addition to the tongues we have mentioned, familiar with Arabic and Persian, Hindostanee, French, German, Italian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Malay, Sanscrit, and Bengalee-in all, seventeen languages, in fourteen years. W'est Square, September 21. Upon the King's recovery in 1789, the Librarian and others connected with Sion College, were at a loss what device, or motto, to select for the illumination of the building; when the following happy choice was made by a worthy Divine from the Book of Psalms:-" Sion heard of it, and was glad.” The late beloved Princess Charlotte was once so impetuous in her temper, that it was with difficulty she could apply to her The national costume of a young Parisian gentleman of fashion, consists of an English coat, a Cossack waistcoat, Polish pantaloons, and Turkish boots. Thus a French Dandy, thanks to the happy variety of his habiliments, may see in his own person a pattern of the dress of every nation in Europe. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Maturin has a tragedy forthcoming at Covent Garden: it is nearly completed. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. SEPTEMBER. THE LITERARY GAZETTE, &c. Thursday, 24-Thermometer from 51 to 66. Rain fallen, 25 of an inch. Barometer from 29, 87 to 29, 78. Barometer from 29, 82 to 29, 77. Wind E. 4.-Generally clear. Rain fallen, 025 of an inch. Tuesday, 29-Thermometer from 53 to 63. . Barometer from 29, 67 to 29, 71. Wind E. 4.-Generally clear. On Monday October 5, at 6 hours 15 minutes JOHN ADAMS. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Philarchon's promised favours will be very welcome to us. Duppa, and several other interesting communications, in our next. "John Worthy" may deserve his name, but not as a writer. J. A. alias CHI, has produced a very bad recommendation to our pages, viz. that he had" stolen the enclosed from the scrutoire of a friend."-We dislike plagiarists, and will have nothing to do with thieves. October 1, price 2s. contains an interesting Memoir (acTHE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, for companied by a fine Portrait) of William Gifford, Esq. Editor of the Quarterly Review-Anecdotes of Eminent Persons, No. I. Mr. and Miss Edgeworth-Original Let ters of Robert Burns and Helen Maria Williams-Z on the Cockney School of Prose Writers, No. I.-On the patronage of the Fine Arts-Original Poetry by Lord Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Byron-the late R. Ferriar, Esq.-Mottos for a supper London. Excursions through England, &c. 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We like the manner of the "Sketch" signed" A Correspondent" very well; but it seems unfinished, and as we have at present a series of such Essays before us, it might be some time ere we could avail ourselves of it, if the conclusion is equal to the BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. commencement. We take this opportunity of again stating peremptorily, that we never On Thursday last was published, No. XVIII. for September 1818. will insert a part of any production of which humous Works-Some Remarks on the Use of the Fre- ternatural in Works of Fiction-Selections from Athe- this respect, and, after pledging us to the pier's Essay on the Scope and Influence of Lord Bacon's public, forgot their promises! Miscellaneous, (Connected with Literature and the Arts.) MR. WEST'S EXHIBITION. Writings-The Minstrel of Bruges-History of the Bernacle and Macreuse-Christian Wolf, a True Story. From the German-Letter to the Rev. Professor Laugner, occasioned by his Writings in the Koningsberg Review. 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