On the 13th June, 1769, Andrew Miller's Executors sold the copyright of the whole, by auction, to fifteen London booksellers, for the sum of 5051.; soon after which, Davies, the bookseller, sold half of his 12th (for the shares were unequal) to Becket and De Hondt, (not of the original list of purchasers,) for 217. being the price he himself had paid for that proprortion. Grove, of Jesus College; Rev. John Lucy, of BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Richard Percy Wilson, Oct. 21, at eleven. Nov. 11, at eleven. long, twelve or fiften hundred feet high, uninhabited, some of the rocks basaltic. Coal is found near the surface on the N. E. part of the Island. Some grouse were shot, the cock perfectly white, the hen not unlike that of Scotland. I saw one hare pure white. On the 20th, the ice opened a little to the northward, when we began to warp and tow the ship through the slack, the winds light and variable, and frequent 16, (end of termn) at ten. calms. On the 26th, were only twenty miles from Waygat, where we got into a piece of clear water that carried us to the land ice on the north side of Jacob's Bight, lat. 70. 24. We found ourselves in 54. 17. W. per lunars, which agreed well with chronomoters. We swung the ship, and took azimuths on board at every four points. - Dec. 2, at eleven. There will be Congregations on the following days of the present term: Wednesday I'ednesday The whole of the purchasers were Riving-Wednesday ton, Johnson, Strahan, Longman, W. & Wednesday Richardson, Lowndes, Caslon, Kearsley, Baldwin, Cadell,. Owen, Davies, Becket, and De Hondt. It is a curious fact that this was a close sale; and Alexander Donaldson, the Edinburgh bookseller, who wished to attend, was not admitted. He then published a in the title to be printed in 1768, the sale copy of the Seasons, at Edinburgh, stated of which was said, however, to have begun before the auction of the copyright took place. It is needless to enter into the law merits of the case, but the facts may perhaps be interesting to your readers. Yours, UNUS. LEARNED SOCIETIES. OXFORD, OCTOBER 17. ARTS AND SCIENCES. THE POLAR EXPEDITION. A letter of great interest, addressed to matter: Isabella, off Sugar Loaf Bay, Davis's Straits, July 12, 1818, lat. 74. 2. N. long. 58. W. On the 3d May, left Shetland, and had a Yesterday, in full Convocation, the De- tolerably fair passage across the Atlantic; gree of Doctor in Civil Law, by diploma, on the 22d, were in longitude off Cape was conferred upon his Royal Highness the Farewell; 2 deg. south of it, found our Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Em- variation increasing as we went west; temperor of Russia, at which ceremony the perature of air and water nearly the samne at Archduke Maximilian of Austria was pre-at Shetland, thermometer at 42. or 43. deg. sent. CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 16. On Saturday the 10th inst. being the first day of term, the following gentlemen were appointed University Officers for the year ensuing: PROCTORS.-Harry Pearce, M.A. Conduct of King's College; James Cumming, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College. TAXORS.-Edward René Payne, M.A. Fellow of King's College; William French, M.A. Fellow of Pembroke Hall. MODERATORS.-George Peacock, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College; Richard Gwatkin, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College. SCRUTATORS.-William Holme, B.D. Fellow of Emmanuel College; Robert Woodhouse, M.A. Fellow of Caius College. The following gentlemen were on Monday last appointed the Caput: The Vice-Chancellor. Rev. J. Evans, M.A. Clare Hall.-Sen. Non Reg. MASTERS OF ARTS.-Rev. Joseph Mayor, late Fellow of St. John's College; Rev. T. Rivett Carnac, of St. John's College; Rey, Charles same time on the ice. The observations were not taken in so correct a manner as Corresponding azimuths were taken at the might be done to form a just estimate of the deviation of the compass by ship's attraction. The idea here at present is, that the compasses are not attracted in a line with the ship, but obliquely. From my own observation I find that the bearings of distant objects with the ship's head north the case if the attraction of the ship was and south correspond, which would not be not fore and aft, but athwart. The azimuths taken with the ship's head north or south generally agree. It is supposed likewise that the error arising from the ship's attraction has increased with the variation and dip. As there were no observations made before leaving England, on the ship's attraction, we must have patience until the variation is again decreased. I think that the error has been constant the whole voyOn the 26th, saw the first iceberg, lat. 58.38. age. The ship's head at West gives, aclong. 50. 31.; we now had snow and cording to my own observation, an increase sleet, thermometer at freezing, a good deal of variation 16 deg.; at East a decrease of of loose ice all round. June 2, in lat. 65. 16 deg. On the 27th, we cast off from the long. 56. were close in with the main west ice with the prospect of an opening, and ice, which we supposed extended the whole cruised about in a narrow pool till the 2d way to the American coast; on the 4th, July, when a fine fresh breeze opened a On the 3d, we were in 71. made the Greenland coast, in lat. 65. 42. passage for us. but did not stand close in. On the 8th, in 30. On the 4th, 72. 30. On the 7th, in lat. 68. 20. long. 55. 50. a few leagues off lat. 74. were again obstructed by ice, the the Greenland coast, we were so hemmed bergs and flaws much heavier than those in with ice on all sides, that we could not hitherto seen. We are now in the same run through; a fine S. W. gale was blowing, place that Baffin, two hundred years ago, and were obliged to tack about where anchored; we find the Three Islands just we could find room. On the 9th, we made as he describes them; he makes them in fast to an iceberg aground in 38 fathoms, 74. 4.; we make them 74. 11.—Baffin gives an honest account of them. We stretched about a mile off shore. On the 10th, were obliged to get under weigh, a small change to the westward on the 9th and 10th, but of wind setting a large body of ice upon us; found the sea all fast.-We are now in daily we continued plying where we could find expectation of the wind shifting to the NE. open water. On the 14th, called at the and blowing strong, which is the only thing Whale Islands, where there is a Danish fac- that will do us good. It is strange that, at tory. The Danish Resident came on board; the same time of the year, almost to a day, from him we could get little information, Baffin should have been stopped by ice in except that the preceding winter had been the same place; he likewise stood west 39. N. no clear water was to be seen north-him to 78 N. but he does not say he was at On the 16th, we reached 70. without finding clear sea-his account takes ward, made fast to an iceberg, about a the top of the bay, or saw land there. Our mile off the N. W. end of Waygat or Hare voyage hitherto has been very pleasant. Is'and. We found here most of the whale- Since the middle of June we have had very fishers waiting for an opening to go north, fine weather, the thermometer in sun 76.; the fishery to the southward having failed sometimes in the shade it is at a mean about this season. Waygat is eight or nine miles 33. or 34., sometimes below the freezing very severe. | THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND tween two icebergs, and had much diffito the Congo) was nearly destroyed besame which made the unfortunate voyage point. For five or six weeks we have only | When at the Three Islands we made some had occasion to take in the first reef once. The water is as smooth as a mill-pond all tant objects by compass, and found changes further observations on the bearings of disweathers. We have scarcely seen rain-of bearings of three points at east and west. culty in reaching a British port. A severe The compasses for some time have traversedgale of wind was the cause of this vexatious very sluggishly; this, we suppose, is owing result. to the increase of dip. I think it not at all improbable, that, as the terrestrial magnetism begins to act more inclined to the compass needle, it will act with less force There are no the iron of the ship still acting at the same angle, draws the needle towards the deviation of the compass; and should we centre of the ship, which causes this great reach the place where the dip is 90, I think the compass will stand always north and south by the magnetism of the ship. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANIES. MAGIC LANTERNS. our changes of weather are from cloudy to thick fogs, and sometimes light falls of snow. Sometimes the sun shines unclouded the whole twenty-four hours. We have only seen two whales, and have only heard of one being killed since we have been here -they are all north of us. scarce-one has been seen. Bears are as ber of the gall tribe have been shot, and we A great numsometimes procure a mess of eider ducks; seals are more abundant, but we do not trouble them.-The coast of Greenland, dent L. W. allow me to state, that the To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR, where we saw it, to the southward of 70, In reply to the query of your corresponis higher than to the north yard of that latitude. Here the coast consists of many high, which brought us to the 75th degree. The other transparent colours; they are laid on bold, bluff-like head-lands, which, closer whales begin to make their appearance, July 22.-Yesterday we got an opening, oil, with carmine, lake, Prussian blue, and glasses for a magic lantern are painted in to, are found to be islands. The main land several having been killed within these eight their use require no other direction than is one continued ridge of smooth snow, days. The main land appears one conti- such as are familiar to all persons acquainted which appears like a cloud. The islands ned smooth ridge of snow, only here and with drawing. Should change or motion as thinly and clearly, as possible, and in in general are clear of snow. inhabitants to the north of 72.30. on this ing; some large islands on the coast less there the black peak of a mountain appear-be required, two glasses must be employed; coast. We had some of the natives on board from 68. 30.; 70§.; and 724. They three or four leagues off, so there is no with blank spaces left upon it, for the arms, covered with snow; the land ice extends correct design that is first to be exhibited, on the front glass should be painted the are all the same people. The most astonishing thing to be seen here is the ice- abouts. We sound occasionally in from take place; on the back glass, which should prospect of approaching the coast here- legs, or head, in which the alteration is to bergs; their size and number surpasses 200 to 409 fathoms soft mud and small slide in a groove, must be delineated these fancy. From the 65th degree to this, the stones. Three days we were beset in the parts only, with blank lines or dots, as may sea is literally covered with bergs, and we ice; could not observe any current, by the be necessary, to prevent the appearance of see no end to them. Where they are gene-lead lying at the bottom, though the ice on both at the same time. rated is yet unknown to us; it is not in 74, the surface was in motion. or to the southward on this coast. be painted on the front glass, with sufficient For instance, if a pyramid, or tomb, either of these should figure be wished to appear on a column, room left for the display of the statue: this is to be depicted on the back glass, and the space on which it is to be shewn must also be darkened as directed, before it is permitted to appear. The same rules are observable in all other devices, with which experience will soon become acquainted. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, That they are formed on the land is certain, from the many stones of great size which are seen; some of them are covered with sand and dirt, others have regular strata of sand and stones running through them horizontally. They are of all forms; generally they have a high cleft on one side, and shelve down to the water on the other; some exceed 200 feet perpendicular all round. The ice generally drifts with the wind, though a current must set southward, or how would the bergs find their way south? We have not been able to detect any current. The flood tide sets here from southward. here this morning, and now see more clear July 25.-Lat. 75. 21. long. 60. 30.—Got water than we have seen for some time past. We must now be crossing the magnetic pole fast, as the variation increases much. It is puzzling to find out exactly how the ship is steering by the compass; what with the great variation and error, arising from the ship's attraction, and the sluggish traversing of the compasses, we must consider some time before a course of wind can properly be named. We are now the northernmost ship. The fish are turning so very plenty, that all the ships are employed, and will probably proceed no further north this season. This afternoon we got jammed between two flaws, and seeing a ship taking a fish a short distance from us, Captain Ross sends all his dispatches with her, in case of not falling in with another, or ice opening and separating us. J. R. At Waygat we had a rise and fall of seven feet at spring tides. Where the icebergs drift into shallow water (that is to say 150 fathoms or under), they ground, and obstruct the passage of the smaller ice, and form barriers which it is difficult to pass. In 68. there is a reef, in 70. another, in 74. another, generally found full of ice by the fishers; we found it the same. P.S.-While writing these last lines, the standing a few leagues from land we find northward. You may guess how fickle it is. In ice has closed all around us, and fast to the 85 fathoms here, closer on 150, 90, and so We are now about three miles off a small on. The water runs in small streams from rocky island, in 270 fathoms mud; the the bergs, so we have no difficulty in get-island four or five leagues from the main ting it. The small ice has been for some land, and ice connecting it. The tempetime consuming fast, and will be all dis-rature of the water to-day is 36 degrees solved by the end of this month, even with-higher than it has been for some weeks.out wind to break it. We see land bearing N. W. by W. true. July 18.-Yesterday an opening in the ice enabled us to get to 74. 43. when we were again stopped-the ice here much heavier and in fields. We are at present fast to a field, in thick fog, which freezes as it falls, and covers every thing with ice. of the expedition has returned to England | Oct. 17, 1810. C. W. P.S. The article Dioptrics, in the Encyclopædia Britannica, will afford L. W. much information. letter dated Bahia, 2d May 1818, and addressed to Counsellor Meyer at Offenbach, NATURAL HISTORY. - BRAZIL.-In a Mr. Friereiss, of Francfort on the Maine, specimens from his great collection to the an indefatigable naturalist, after offering his projected expeditions to increase his museum of his native city, and describing store, adds: 80 species of mammalia, 500 species of birds, 100 species of amphibia, 5000 speI have collected in the last five years cies of insects, and nearly 3000 species of plants. From what is known of Brazil, the service which I have done to science may be my own collection, it will be found, even mens are at present to be found only in judged of; and though many new speciin the worst case as respecting myself, that nothing has been neglected to secure them for the benefit of science." THE FINE ARTS. SALOON OF ARTS. It is not our custom to notice works of mere mechanical ingenuity; but the Saloon of Arts, in Old Bond Street, (the pictures in which we have more than once mentioned) contains a piece of workmanship of such costly beauty, that we think we do a favour to our readers in mentioning it. It is a cabinet constructed like a temple, flourished with gold, and mounted with statues. Every species of agate highly veined and polished, is inserted into the façade, and the columns are of lapis lazuli; the whole architecture is apparently about seven feet high, and it is beyond all comparison the most magnificent performance of the kind that we have ever seen. It was made for the Borghese palace, at the expense of, we understand, five thousand pounds, and was brought away during some of the tumults and distresses of the revolution. ORIGINAL POETRY. [Literary Gazette.] A HAUNTED STREAM. "Of objects all inanimate I made It is perhaps a fable,-yet the hind Is clear as truth; and yet-it roams like error. Come then, my stream! and I will sing of thee: Worthy from beauty, oh! but worthier far From sweet associate pleasures-Thou to me Art like the glass of memory, where the mind Sees, charmed and softened by thy murmuring, things It elsewhere dare not dream of-things that fled With early youth, and went-one knew not whither Shadows forgot-and hope that perished - . And that pale flower that seeks the valley (white Amidst her golden bounty, live unhurt— Pour, from his silver throat, sweet music; and, Sweet tidings from the rose) -The Stockdove here Breathes her deep note complaining, 'till the air Look upon these "yellow sands," And down the wave float silently- Beat with their tiny wings the air, All seem as they were free from care- -But hark! my master Ocean calls, What think you now?-Believe the Spirit, and Own The place is haunted.-On yon slanting tree tween That Planet and the stream-Perchance a nymph Yes, Friendship's is a sacred flame, Even she, this truth may one day prove. But 'tis a Love that few must know, It is a feeling deep-sublime, A Paradise creating here, That blooms thro' chance and change of time, Like vision of a higher sphere. It is not lighted by the eye, It is not fostered by the tongueIt seeks not pomp or brilliancy, Nor dwells the busy crowd among: 'Tis founded on the charm of mind— On hearts like these-tho' Fate may lour, Or East, or West, or low, or high; And tho' again they never meet, And tho' in far-off climes they live, As shines the flame on depths of night, And gild the memory of the dead. tance, and even over death; it gives presence to the absent, and immortality to the deceased; it is the balm of friendship and (in common with writing) the happiest embodying of thought! With what delight may the friend or the lover contemplate the features of the face or of the mind that is dear to him, whilst gazing on a striking resemblance or perusing the welcome letter. There, words and colours breathe and burn; there, we converse with the far removed, or behold the very figure and expression. Happy, thrice happy art! That this art should possess its highest merit in all its integrity, it should, like the language of friendship, be faithful and true, not too highly wrought and fanciful: it should be wholly unmingled with flattery, which spoils the likeness, and renders language insincere and worthless. Whilst reflecting on these things, my mind reverted to the subject of portraits and of miniatures, and I considered how much people deceive themselves and others by marring and disguising what ought to be their second selves, the honest representatives of their looks and persons. "Tis vanity which produces all this-a wish to be more than what we are, younger, handsomer, arrayed in a more costly style, representing some foreign character; in fine, a counterfeit instead of an honest copy. Artists are instructed directly or indirectly to this effect in numberless instances; and they As the faith of thy friendship, the soul of thy meet with nothing but unkindness and derhyme. EPIGRAM. The tenant to his Landlord hied, And told his tale of poverty; "I pardon you," the Landlord cried, "Your clothes are Rent enough I sec." D. ON HOGARTH'S APPRENTICES. Honoured, elected to be Lord May'r one; Hanged and dissected, his companion's gone:This the sole difference by a Wag declared, The last was tabled, and the first was chaired. feat whenever a plain person is plainly de lineated. Princes, who marry by proxy, deal unjustly in this particular. For example, the blood of St. Louis, and the descendants of Henry the Fourth, are exalted in history to the stars: the very name creates respect and inspires admiration. In the course of events some Princess on the Continent is demanded in marriage; and her mind is inflamed with the idea of becoming the wife of a hero. A very handsome nobleman in the gayest attire (which is not altogether politic) gives the proxy hand, and is the bearer of a miniature surrounded with brilliants (a circumstance which always dazzles and misleads,) representing the future bridegroom ever more captivating than he is, and which, being covered with stars and OF ENGLISH MANNERS. decorations, looks Majesty itself. Her SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. THE HERMIT IN LONDON, SKETCHES OR No. XVI. Royal or her Serene Highness (and it is well when the latter is not a misnomer) if she be not inspired by the proxy, arrives on the tiptoe of expectation, and is introduced to her august consort, with eagle-eyed anxiety. But what is her disappointment! what her dejection and dismay! when she meets with a plain little man, like a journeyman mechanic! and discovers that every good feature in the picture has been a pre * ANOTHER CHAPTER ON PAINTING. Look here upon this picture, and on thisHamlet. He's damnable like me, that's certain. Imprimis, there's the patch upon my nose, with a p-x to him-Item, a very foolish face with a long chin at the end on't. Item, one pair of shambling legs, with two splay feet belonging to them.sent of the painter's! Well, you are Sosia; there's no denying it. Dryden's Amphitryon. What a charming art is Painting! Like the invention of writing, it triumphs over dis For the first chapter, see the Hermit No, 10, September 12th. Or, perhaps one of our own worthy Princes, declining in years, and increasing in wrinkles and in rotundity, with a generous solicitude for the people's weal, and imbued with principles of good breeding and respect for the royal name, dispatches a comely nobleman to fetch him a wife from amongst the Protestant Princesses of the colder part of Europe, some of the illustrious Carolinas or Wilhelminas of our Teutch Sprachen neighbours. The miniature is here also produced, free from fleshy incumbrance or claret-blossom, blooming as morn, and fresh as a dewy rose. Is this fair, if the royal vrau find, on beholding the original, that the rose is more like a sunflower, and the bloom the glowing honours of gray e and good living! This system of flattering ruins every picture and every person, every court and every courtier; it defeats the intention of preserving a fac-simile, as it were, of what it is to represent. Yet, in high life, and in the more middling ranks, all must have their portraits, and, at the saine time, all must have their proportion of gracefulness, let nature have treated them how she may. A strong instance of this kind occurred in the following example: Mr. Lovegain, a very opulent trader, but a very plain man, was anxious to transmit his resemblance to posterity. He had just been elected an Alderman; and Mrs. Lovegain was desirous that his full-length, clad in his civic robes, should adorn her dining parlour. The Alderman's complexion was very sallow; yet was a suit of mourning chosen for his dress, because it looked grave, courtly, and above the vulgar herd. Independently of the plainest set of features which nature ever bestowed on one of her least favoured children, Mr. Lovegain had an expression of vileness, a something mean and bad, which it would be difficult to describe. His hair was harsh and inclining to grey, but it was judged tasteful to give him a Brutus wig, probably on account of his magisterial capacity, and of his being a stern republican at heart. This completed the natural severity of his brow-the suspicious and half-closed eye, the lip of mockery, and the air of rancour and discontent of his countenance, misanthropical in the extreme, and seeming as if it were always denouncing some one, and saying with a snarl, "There's something rotten in the state." In spite of all these natural defects for a portrait, the Alderman must be painted, and the artist was instructed by him to make a strong likeness. Mrs. Lovegain and his daughters too were most urgent in their applications, that much pains might be bestowed upon the picture; and Miss said, that if Pa's picture was well finished, she would have her own drawn; nay, that she would try to prevail on Pa to have a family piece executed, comprising Ma and five children, and taking in a favourite mongrel dog and the black servant following them. The prospect of extensive gains induced Mr. Varnish to give the portrait most particular attention; and it was an almost speaking likeness, insomuch, that its stern aspect frightened all the children, and set every dog to barking which came to the painter's house,-whilst numbers who knew the Alderman, would exclaim, on the very first glance at their entering the 66 room, Mr. Lovegain the strongest resemblance in the world!" And this in spite of the disguise of the Brutus wig and of the civic robe, in which few had seen him. Notwithstanding all this, Mrs. Lovegain was quite frantic with rage that her husband should be painted thus. It was a shame; it was a caricature: it amounted to a libel; it was more like Shylock than the honest merchant ;-she would not allow it to be paid for; it should never come within her doors; she would expose the artist; in short, in one of her paroxysms of rage, she was about to take up a brush and rub out the face. A bandy leg too, lit up her anger most dreadfully; and she said, that although Mr. Lovegain had a little protuberance on his shin-bone, and a small deviation from a right line in his limb, yet there was no need for putting it in the picture, and it was the height of impertinence thus to magnify his little defects. Mr. Varnish promised to give him a new pair of very well proportioned legs, and to bestow on his features a smile of humanity (a thing quite unknown to this money-maker ;) and suggested, that the hair powdered would throw a light on the subject. All would not do, Miss Lovegain opened a torrent of abuse on the artist; and declared "she should hate Pa if he was like that picture," and that he must begin it all over again. In this the Alderman coincided, saying bluffly, that "he knew that he was no beauty, but he'd be hanged if he was half so ugly as that ere." be ashamed of their Pa, if he were the mean | ger, the two new Sub-Committee men: it looking wretch which that picture repre- was a composition of ten shillings in the sented." pound to the creditors of the Theatre. It had rather a tragical cast, and though the audience were evidently affected, it was only indifferently received; but a junta was appointed to consider whether or no it might be again submitted in the form of a farce, into which shape the Beaumont and Fletcher, its devisers, promised to model it. Driven to despair, the poor artist thought of an expedient, and he told the irritated ladies that he would execute a third portrait, and claim nothing if they were dissatisfied with it. He thought of a stratagem, to which the sitter agreed, in consequence of the loss of the artist's time. The figure of the second picture was cut out; but the back ground, in which stood the Alderman's villa, and the favourite dog, was preserved. Mr. Lovegain was put into the hollow space, and placed opposite a large mirror in the other corner, the view of which was commanded the moment the folding doors of the painting-room opened. Mrs. Lovegain and her daughters were invited up stairs, and the artist considered his victory over prejudice as certain. What was his astonishment at Mrs Lovegain's fury, when, on opening the door, she exclaimed, "Worse and worse! There is no bearing this," and throwing her parasol at the mirror, which she broke into numberless pieces, ran out of the room in hysterics. The Alderman, however, paid the damage; and the artist's cause was avenged. was now given up. The idea of being painted that year On the following, however, a flattering artist at Tunbridge Wells, on a trading trip, hit off the Alderman to the entire satisfaction of his whole family, giving him three inches in stature, planing off the rotundity of his stomach, The humbled artist began all de novo, straightening his legs, and throwing such a and gave the citizen a pair of as goodly legs good-natured smile into his countenance, as ever an Irish fortune-hunter sported at that he became quite an amiable character. the rooms at Bath. He humanized the His friends all allowed that the villa and the countenance as much as he could, without dog in the back ground were wonderfully losing sight of all resemblance. The Bru- like; but the figure in the foreground was tus wig, however, being insisted upon by recognized by no one except by his wife the Alderman's lady, it was adopted the and his daughters. To give it, however, second time, and the picture, although every possible advantage and distinction, a still that of a very ugly man, was highly very magnificent frame was purchased for finished in point of execution. The Alder-it. The Alderman's coat of arms, consistman looked surly, and shook his heading of a sable ground divided by a chevron, at the conclusion of the last sitting, and observed, that "as for himself he did not much care, but that he feared Mrs. Lovegain would not let the picture go to his house." The artist expostulated, and humbly represented that he had done two portraits for the price of one, that he had bestowed uncommon pains, attention, and time, on them, and that they had been universally deemed striking likenesses. He mentioned a very long list of persons, amongst whom were capital artists, who had pronounced them to be so, and offered to give the picture for nothing, if Mr. Lovegain would bring any dispassionate judge with him who should decide otherwise. The experiment was tried and succeeded to the satisfaction of all but Mrs. Lovegain and her daughters, the former of whom asked the painter, "If he thought that she would marry such an ugly monster as that? and the latter vociferated all at once, that "they had no patience with Mr. Varnish's impertinence, and that they should with a gold ball and two money shovels on it, a hog for a crest (which might have been mistaken in the picture,) and the motto Omnium," surmounted the fine wholelength; and, on a label at the bottom was inscribed, in letters of gold, 66 JEREMIAH LOVEGAIN, ESQUIRE, ALDERMAN, ETCETERA ETCETERA." The picture was now considered as complete, though a daub, and a failure in the eyes even of the City; and, but for the lesson it enables him to give, utterly unworthy of the notice of THE HERMIT IN LONDON. THE DRAMA. DRURY LANE.-The latest composition offered at this House was the joint production of Alderman Çox and Mr. Ironmon On Saturday, the Opera of Lionel and Clarissa was done here; Lionel, Mr. C. Fisher, his first appearance in London; Clarissa, Miss Witham; and Jessamy, Mr. Penley. With the common mechanism of music, Mr. C. Fisher is tolerably well acquainted. He runs up and he runs down the usual octaves with considerable skill; and he shakes with rather more than third-rate ability. But if the power of song consists at all in feeling, in passion, and in melody, this debutant, with a voice of indifferent quality, and we dare say a hard study of his art, has the least chance of becoming a popular singer of any we have recently heard who have stept forward in the first walk of Opera. He is a freezing singer, and will never ravish the ears of any audience. Mediocrity is his decided lot The Clarissa of the evening is of the same calibre, only she did not display so competent an acquaintance with the tunes of her airs. Like Mr. C. Fisher she was nevertheless much applauded, no doubt, for we will not libel the public taste, by Numbers of Addison's Spectators, in the theatre for the occasion. Our readers are aware that she studied under Addison-though not Joseph. Without seeing it, it is not easy to conceive how completely Mr. Penley deprived Jessamy of every entertaining quality; but, indeed, we know few performers greater in that line that Mr. Penley. Munden's Colonel Oldboy shone like a blazing torch in the midst of half a dozen farthing rushlights. THE RECRUITING OFFICER.-It is true that Drury Lane is not much infested with company of the better order, but still there are a few reputable people who continue to haunt (like melancholy ghosts) the scene of their former enjoyments. As if to drive even these away, this most licentious play was revived on Tuesday. A play which no pruning can fit for decent ears, however inuch it may evaporate the spirit of another age-a play which no modest woman could endure to see acted, without being crimsoned with the blushes of shame;-a play which no brother, or husband, or father, even of coarse feeling, would allow sister, wife, or daughter, to witness, any more than they would send them to a place of notorious and utter profligacy. We remember that some evil genius suggested the revival of this Comedy some years ago at Covent Garden, where it was admirably performed, and chastely too when compared with its pruriency on Tuesday; but it was wisely withdrawn, in obedience to the public voice; for whether we are or are not, take us all and all, more moral than our |