shall prosper. are received. bert had prepared bimself for a tedious of puffing may be excusable, but such noto- different contrivances, founded neither on sermon; but he was surprised to find him- rious and unblushing falsehood is enough nature nor probability. self moved by what he had heard. to destroy the credit of any theatre. On quitting the church, he went to visit Covent GARDEN.—The brief notice and the servant of God. He found him prae- faiut praise which we bestowed upon the VARIETIES tising 'what he had taught. Indigent and new comedy, “A Word to the Ladies,” in ANECDOTES.-Lies. A French nobleman intirm, he was distributing consolation and our last, would sufficiently indicate to our who had three varlets of servants, promised succour among the poor. Full of conti-readers, that we did not feel it to be con- them one day, that he who could tell the dence in the old inan, Lambert made him sistent with expediency to waste much greatest lie should be rewarded. The first acquainted with the object of his journey. space upon the review of that production, said, "My Lord, I have never yet told a “ You wish,”, said the reverend Pastor, or with justice to say more in its favour. lie;" the second, I cannot lie;" but the "to be the deputy of this country? Be Being already, apparently, consigned to third said, My Lord, both of them tell what is still better: be its benefactor! Es oblivion, it should seem that the public the truth.” The latter accordingly received tablish a manufactory here, feed the indus- voice has confirmed our first impression; the reward. trious poor, they will bless you, and you and therefore we need not take up the ashes, Rights of the Gallows.The cele Leave politics to those who either to show how much is caput mortuum, brated Klapproth related, in one of his have made it their study, and the govern- or how many live embers of wit might be lectures, that the parish of H-, which ment of states to those whom heaven has found mingled in the mass. For, in truth, had crected a new gallows just before a appointed.”— Worthy inan!' exclaimed though the prevalence of dull sentiment, foreign thief, who had committed a robLambert, accept my interest and iny and the want alike of prominent character bery in H was condemned to be money; 'all that you do must be right and learling interest proved fatal to this hanged, sent their principal iuhabitants to shall return to Paris, more satisfied with play, it must be conceded that it contained the judge, to request that this execution myself than when I set out; but be assured a number of good points, and embraced Inight not take place, “ Because the galI will come and see you again!' good qualities, wortlier of a more happy lows had been erected at the expense of Madame Lambert was both surprised fate. "Its grand defect was in the level and the parish, for their own people, and not and delighted at her husband's speedy re- nearly equal pretensions of almost every for strangers.” turn. He gave her a faithful account of his one of the dramatis personæ: there were journey. She embraced him, and congra so many candidates for attention, that we TO CORRESPONDENTS. tulated him on having again become a seu could attend to no one; but, like the last Many letters on the Question, “ W'as Hamlet mad ? » sible man and a good citizen. cluster of horses at a sweepstakes, were As soon as the liberals heard of the re- forced to lump them altogether. It arose By a mis-directed letter, we have got a scolding for men. turn of their Aiphytrion, they paid him a out of this injudicious plan, that every party tioning, in our last Number, that a rising young actress visit, in the hope of renewing their philoso- had much to do and say, which, while it was styles herself still Miss instead of Mistress. Heretofore, we had thought that on certain mis-haps (such as the phic dinners; but they found the door closed doing and saying, kept the other parties so child-dropping affair in the police reports this week,) against them. To treat them according to long out of sight, and their business so out the only risk of error was in letting out the secret that their own taste, Franval sent them a little of mind, that when they did re-appear the ladies, who should have been Mistresses were only Misses; circular, couched as follows :-"Mighty audience had much adó to recollect what but we now see there is danger all ways, and we will philosophers, you who are continuallytalking they had been about when they last made never call Miss S-lle Mrs. B-n again as long as we of Voltaire, though you have never read their exits. The interest was thus divided speaks of theatrical folks-especially of the frailer sex, live. Indeed it is necessary to be cautious how one him, if ever you should look into his works, and frittered away till the whole was rather and we had hoped that by treating them all as married you will find the following lines, which my a succession of different scenes, than a well | women, we might aroid scandal! ! friend Simon intends to adopt as his future constructed and continued drama. Then ** We have received the several circulars, sent (as we rule of conduct: there was a vast deal too much of gentle-suppose) to all recpectable periodical publications, by a Assez des grands esprits, dans leur troisieme men hugging or saluting each other, and of efforts to the devising of means for the Encouragement of étage, ladies telling dismalstories of their griefs, - Industry and Reduction of the Poors Rates. These objects N'ayant pu gouverner leur femme et leur merage, both exceedingly disagreeable to behold and are so vitally important, that our recommendations could Se sont mis par plaisir à régir l'univers. to hear. In other respects the dialogne is of the add no force to that urgency with which they appeal to better order, and often rises to true comicex- every considerate mind; and the necessarily long discusPour moi, je n'entends rien aux affaires d'etat ; cellence. It is therefore clear that the sion of:be most effectual remedies for idleness and pauMa loi fondamentale est de vivre tranquille ; author could have inade the whole much perisin is not consistent with the plan of our work. We can therefore only heartily wish success to these benevo. better than he has done, but for some radical lent endeavours, and mention that such a body exists for ct, dans ma vie obscure, Je laisse au Roi mon Maitre, en pauvre citoyen, defect which destroyed his powers in their the collection of illustrative facts, and the opinions of the La soin de son Royaume où je ne prétends rien. This defect is not far to seck. It well-informed. lies in the common practice of play writing in these times,-not according to original ERRATA.-In our last Number, in endeavourconceptions and the fitness of parts, but ac ing do justice to a Contemporary, we did him THE DRAMA. cording to the performers in the Theatre, wrong; and by mistake stated that the excellent and their fitness for particular lines of act in a rival publ.cation instead of that in which it account of a Scotch Penny Wedding had appeared Drury LANE.--We visited this theatre ing. Thus Mr. Kenney did not sit down to actually was, namely, in Constable's Edinburgh to see Brutus again, and found that much produce a good Comedy ;-his object was Magazine.--Fur “Corvello,” in the Digest of of its first effect was gone : eren Kean's to produce characters for Mr. Young, Mr. Politics, read Corvetto.-In No. 99, p. 794, 1.31, exertions failed under the test of repetition, Macready, Mr. C. Kemble, Mr. Abbott, Mr. of the Ballad, for “mid this gay group to seek,” and the other miserable adjuncts became Jones, Mr. Farren, Mr. Liston, Mr. Emery, read “ I exclaimed to seck here. doubly tiresome. The house was very &c. &c. &c.; and when he had accompoorly attended, little spirit was diplayed plished this design pretty tolerably, he London; Printed for the Proprietors, by BENSLEY and in any part of the performances, and the and the managers imagined they had Son, Bolt-court, Fleet-street : Published every Satur. applause was unfrequent and partial. What a fine Piece with all the strength of the day, by HENRY COLBURN, Public Library, Conduite we have now stated, is, upon the honour of House in it. All the strength they had, street; JOHN BELL, Dealerin Newspapers, Sweeting's not worth a rush. alley, Cornhill; and PINNOCK and MAUNDER, criticism, the bare and simple truth; yet but the piece was Booksellers, at the Literary Gazette Office, 267, Strand, was it asserted in the bills of the ensuing But as Ä Word to the Ladies has been where Communications (post paid) are requested to be day, that the House was crowded, the act- thrown away, we shall not say another addressed to the Editor. Also supplied by all Book. ing admirable, and the approbation con- word about it, even to describe the plot, sellers, Newsmen, and Stationers, in Town stant and rapturous. A moderate degree and shew that it was rather a train of in Country. source. Or INDEX TO THE LITERARY GAZETTE FOR THE YEAR 1818. (IALL - 5. Antonia, a Poem, by Murdo Young, review of, 369 Austrian Archdukes Tour through England, 49, 65, 81, lutuinn near the Rhine, review of, 515, 532 staffin's Bay, Curiosities brought from, 799 laireith, Margravine, account of the, 76 triathurst; Observations on Lord Bathurst's Speech, OTEZ'CCaufoy and Barrington's Possibility of approaching the ABEL'S Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, Carey, a Defence of the Poetical talents of Henry, 605 Fanaticism and Conversion, 735 's Letter to the Marquis of Stafford, Verses on Mr. 155 Fellowes's Account of the Monastery of La Trappe, 460 Critical Description and Analysis of Mr. West's Fearon's Sketches of America, 673, 705 painting of Death on the Pale Horse, review of, 247 Teron, Miss, Anecdote of, 125 Clavis Metrico Virgiliana, a review of Dr. 244--Re Ferrari, a Treatise on Italian Singing, by, 788 marks on the Confessions of Frederick of Prussia, 959, Fidelity, Remarkable instance of, 591 Fine Arts, review and register of the, 24, 41, 42, 72, 101, 124, 136, 137, 153, 170, 185, 200, 215, 218, 234, 247, 292, Cast Iron in Russia, 761 915, 999, 809, 826 Florence Macarthy, an Irish Tale, by Lady Morgan, re- view of, 769 Foreign Players, 430 Forkel, Biographical account of Dr. J. N. 605 Fouche, Anecdote of, 254 Franklin's (Dr.) Life and Writings, rev. of, 145,466, 483,519 Coleridge's Lectures at the Crown and Anchor, 808 Frederic of Prussia, Confessions of, 561, 584,815, 630, 640, 065, 680, 710 French Army in Russia, an Account of the Distribution of the, 198--French Literature, 200-French Manners, a Day on the Banks of the Seine, 199 Triends, a Poem, review of the, 549 Gas, a new kind of, discovered, 215 Genius, a Vision, review of, 436 Cent's Lines suggested by the Death of the Princess Charlotte, review of, 55 Georgel, Meinoirs of: he last half of the Eighteenth Cen- tury, by the Abbé, 197, 214 of, 277, 514 German Universities, State of the, 104-Emigration, 892, Gerning, Memoir of the Baron Von, 322-Travels in Italy, 337, 357, 419 Gifford, John, Memoir of, 399 Princess Charlotte, 307-On Paris, 540 Gilly's Spirit of the Gospels, review of, 582 Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem, by Curran, Phillips's Recollections of, 379 Tasso, translated by Faire fax, review of, 115 Golownin's Narrative of a Residence in Japan, in 1811, 1812, 1919, review of, 3, 18, 36 Gourgaud's Account of the l'ampaign of 1815, rev.of, 740 Gravity and Levity, review of, 311 Grecian Antiquities, an Account of the Discovery of, 289 Greek Literature, 560--Church, curious Anecdote of the, 9.-- Antiquities in the Crimea, 908 Greenland, review of Captain Ludwig Metzler Giescke's Voyage to, 68 Guy Mannering, Plagiarism in, 57 Directories, Abuse in Compiling of the London, 574 Hackett's Narrative, review of, 723 125, 140, 156, 173, 189, 206, 221, 236, 252, 270, 285, 301, Hall's Travels in Canada, review of, 401, 420 Account of a Voyage of Discovery, 89, 98, 116. 527, 543, 558, 573, 590, 605, 637, 653, 669, 665, 717, 733, Hamilton, Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth, by Miss Benger, 748, 764,781, 796, 813, 630 review of, 245 Foreign, remarks on the, 13, 29, 61, 77, 94, 125, Hammer's, Von, View of the Egyptian Mysteries, 87, 102 157, 190, 237, 415, 479, 573, 621, 671,686, 735, 797 Hannibal's Tomb, 601 Drury Lane Theatre, Statement of l'acts connected with Harvey's Sensibility, the Stranger, and other Poems, 708 Hastings, Biographical account of Warren, 636 Hawke, some Account of the late Miss, 205 Earth, new Theory of the, 508—Measure and Form of, 537 Henry IV. Equestrian Statue of, 26 Easter, account of the causes why Easter 1816 was ap. Herbert, an Original Letter from Sir Williaın, 69 pointed to be celebrated on the wrong day, 68 Hermit in London, 445, 461, 474, 491, 524, 540, 536, 569, 780, 795, 811, 827 Highland Society of Arts, an Account of, 215 ing the years 1770 and 1778, 307 -Letter occasioned by the Review of, 280 mer, 87, 102—Monuments, Jornard's Notes on the, review of, 290 Holman, Biography of Mr. George (actor) 44 Homburg, Biography of the Prince of Hesse, sos Hooker's Muscologia Britannica, review of, 295 vent Garden Theatres to the Lord Chamberlain, 373 Howard, Memoirs of the Life of John, review of, 753, 773 English Manners, by Abul Hassan, 716 Hudson's Hours, a Peein, review of, 467 Humboldt and Bompland, revicw of the Personal Narra- tive of Travels to the Equinoxial kegions, 66, 81, 119 Epinay, Memoires et Correspondance de Madame D', re -Biography of C. W. Humbolt, 106-Biography of view of, 227, 251. F. H. A, Humboldt, 106 Hunt's Foliage, and other Poems, review of, 210 Epitaphs, Collection of curious, 7, 39, 367 Error, Remarkable propagation of an, 567 Ice, the Tormation of Ice in the Sea, 154 Etna, Account of a Journey to, 40, 58, 70, 71 Incombustible Man, an account of, 462 Indecent Prints, Remarks on, 568 Evelyn's Memoirs and Diary from 1641 to 1705-6, review Iron Meteoric, account of, 778 Italian Literature, 469, 664, 792 Expeditions to the North Pole, Account of the, 190, 226, Jackson's 700 Errors in Shakspeare's Plays, 643 242, 261, 607, 617, 681, 714 James's Account of the War with the United States, 450 INDEX TO THE LITERARY GAZETTE FOR THE YEAR 1818. Jesuit's Barks, 730 Morgan's Sketches of the Philosophy of Life, rev. of, 721 Royal Institution, account of the Lectures at the, 104, 122, 136, 153, 215, 233, 250 Roxburgh Club, 593 Ruben's Gallery, Leicester Square, account of the, 283, 473 Russian Literature, 199, 645—Anecdote, 194-Embassy to Persia, 151, 316,431, 507-Sketches of the South of, 155 Saloon of Arts, Oid Bond Street, account of the, 283 Satan, the Attributes of, 310 Bass's Journey to Rome, review of, 737 Schmidt's Invention of a Plough, 794 Necker, Madame de Stael Holstein's Life of, review of, 133 Scipio and Wellington, a Parallel, 429 Scott versus Mudford, 709 Serpent, account of a great Sea, 489 Shakspeare and Vandykc, 745 Shipwreck of the French Frigate Medusa, 353 Singer's Select English Poets, review of, 33 Smollett's Tomb, some account of, by! Sound of Flame in Tubes, 537 Society, Sketches of, 10, 108, 124, 139, 155, 187, 202, 219, 235, 951, 317, 347, 363, 595, 444, 747, 811 Stael, Memoirs of Anua Germaine de, go3 Stebbing's Minstrel of the Glen, rev'ew of, 804 Stevens's Essay on Average, review of, 197 St. Helena, Letters from Madame Bertrand at, 441, 454, 471, 487, 506, 581, 536, 554 Sun-Dial used as a Moon-Dial, 799 Syracuse, extracts from A Walk to, 202 Paisiello, Quatremere de Quincy's Account of the Life and Compositions of, 60, 74 TE of my Lapdlord, Second Series, review of, 497 Telescopes, Origin and Use of, 267 Theatrical Morality, 782 Thomson's Observations introductory to a work on Ergo lish Etymology, 641 (Jas., unpublished Poems, account of, 629, 680 Thorne, Memoir of War in India, by Maj. Thorne, 325, 341 Thorlakson, the Icelandic Poet, some account of, 792 Thummel, Bingraphical account of Maurice Aug. Von, 9 968, 299 Thurtle's Ashford Rectory, review of, 543 Tiber, Antiquities found in the Bed of the, 793 Tiflis, some account of, 92 Tin, Crystallization of, 426, 443, 586 Tin Mires in France, 794 Treneuil, Biographical Memoir of M. de, 991 ment, review of, 21 19%, 213, 231, 278 Tuscany, Antiquities discovered in, 271 Twelfth-day, some account of, 57 155, 171, 187, 201, 219, 235, 251, 269, 284, 300, 315, 330, Varieties, 14, 30, +7, 74, 111, 126, 143, 158, 175, 190, 207, 947, 363, 381, 595, 414, 429, 443, 459, 473, 491, 509, 512, 993, 238, 287, 301, 919, 331, 383, 415, 447, 479, 494, 511, 529, 539, 556, 568, 585, 603, 618, 635, 649, 667, 6:3, 715, 527, 543, 559, 591, 639, 655, 671, 687, 719, 734, 750, 766, 745, 730, 762, 779, 794, *11, 827 775, 782, 819, 830 Vartic, Memoirs of John, written by himself, rev. of, en Polidori's Essay upon the Source of positive Pleasure, 502 Violin, Character and History of the, 600-Fractured Violin, 639 Voltaire upon Rousseau, 777 Vondrel, the Dutch Poet, Biographical account of, 27 Upcott's Bibliographical account of the Printed Works relating to English Topography, review of, 177 Prussia, Confessions of Frederic of, 297 Walpole's Curopean and Asiatic Turkey, review of, 51 Walpole's Letters to G. Montague, Esq. review of, 85, 99, 119, 194 Walter, Biography of Professor, 91 Warner's F pistolary Curiosities, review of, 245 Water Colour Exhibition, account of, 269 Watkins' (Dr.) Memoirs of Q. Charlotte, review of, 818 Watson, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Lishop of Landa:t, review of, 1, 17 Wellington and Scipio, a Parrallel, 428 Whistlecraft's Poems, review of, 380 Wilkie, Mr. elected a member of the Highland Socieiy, 155 Williams, an Essay on the Dry kot, by Pobert Mac, review of, 929 Wilson's American Ornithology, 626, 644, 660, 677 Windowsin Men's Breats, 749 Witches, some account of, 342 Woman, or Minor Maxims, a review of, 594, 619 Woman, a Poem, by E. J. Barrett, review of, 292 Woman, or Pour et Centre, by Rev. C. Maturin, re- view of, 437 Life, the Economy of, 279 Young': Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey, rev,of, s20 |