will first of all be given to the public in the Magazine, and then in the usual quartos. This enlightened zeal and liberality of ours in the cause of science must make the African Association feel themselves" pretty damned considerable cheap," to use the expressive phraseology of Upper Canada. No travelling-contributor will be taken under 17 or above 70 years of age, and he must speak instinctively all the languages known since the demolition of the Tower of Babel, like the late Dr John Leyden. Notwithstanding all these princely benefactions, a balance we find is still upon our hands, and we confess that we feel considerable difficulty in fixing on its application. Odoherty would fain endow a Foundling Hospital or a Magdalen Asylum; but the policy of such buildings is more than questionable. The Odontist proposes founding a College at Dinningyst, and Z is anxious that Missionaries should be sent to propagate Christianity among the natives of Cockaigne. But we shall let our readers into the secret a few pages farther on. We have now spoken slightly of the probable application of parts and particles of two-thirds of the gross total of the returns. We come now to allude to the remaining L.200,000, which will become the annual netting of the Proprietors and Trade. And here we are necessarily led into some de tails. The readers of this our very hasty and rude Prospectus will have perceived, probably, by this time, that we intend there shall be no other Magazine but our own. The One is to supersede, or rather to include, all others; and we feel confident that a single moment's reflection will induce all the proprietors, editors, and contributors of the most respectable Magazines in the kingdom, to join the Great Concern. They had as well be swallowed up at once with a good grace. It is for their own advantage that they should be so. Their currents must join the vortex. There are in Britain just six Magazines, as far as we know, worthy of joining the Grand Coalition-Taylor and Hessey's, Colburn's, the Gentleman's, Sir Richard's, the European, and the Scotch Episcopal. All these " several corps d'armee, which hitherto have been acting without concert, and sometimes for one power, and sometimes for another, must come over with colours flying and drums beating to the Emperor of the North. All little differences of opinion must be laid aside; and the united Power may conquer the world. Taylor and Hessey, Colburn, Sir Richard, Messrs Nichols and Sons, Mr Asperne's heirs, and Messrs Macready, Skelly, and Muckersy, must all hoist their flags under the great banner of the Sultan Ebony. Let them divide the £200,000 among them as they chuse, and let them spend it as they chuse, only our friendship for Mr Blackwood impels us to offer him a few hints on the application of his moiety. With the other proposed proprietors, being personally unacquainted, they might think we were using an unwarrantable liberty with them, were we to interfere with any of their private concerns. To Mr Blackwood, then, we have to propose, first, that he present Michael Linning with a promise of £30,000, which is all that is now wanting to complete the subscriptionmoney requisite for the erection of the Parthenon on the Calton-hill. It is a most absurd thing in us to call Edinburgh the Modern Athens, and yet not to have the Parthenon to shew, in support of our modest and appropriate appellation. Such is the public spirit of all ranks of people in Scotland, that the subscription amounts to several thousand pounds; and Mr Blackwood, we are sure, will never think of grudging so paltry a sum. All that he will require in return, will be to have his name either inscribed in letters of gold, or engraved on a marble slab on the front of the chief portico, and perhaps his bust set by the side of that of Minerva. It does not, however, seem unreasonable, on second thoughts, that he should draw the rents of all the bottoms in the seats of the Presbyterian Kirk, which, we understand, is judiciously to be placed as a kernel in the shell of the Grecian Temple; and, as we shall get a call moderated in favour of the Rev. Mr L******, to preach in the Parthenon, Ebony may, after all, get 3 per cent for his coin. In the second place, we humbly propose, that the Publisher make a loan to Government, on lower terms than Ricardo or Rothschild would do, for the purpose of annually clearing and repairing the Caledonian Canal. In the third place, we humbly propose that he shall dig a tunnel below the Frith of Forth, connecting our shores with the kingdom of Fife. This is a speculation that would pay well. We undertake ourselves to light the tunnel by a contrivance of our own that will astonish the scientific world, and put gas into bad odour. Mr Blackwood has many sons; and as his two eldest boys will be soon able for a very responsible situation, they must be the Head Clerks of the Establishment, under the taking title of "Twins of the Tunnel." In the fourth place, Blackwood must give a helping hand to government, to enable them to put the finishing stone to the Plymouth Breakwater. Well, all is fixed, and a great deal more. But what become of all the contributors of the six Engulphed Magazines? Not a hair of one of their heads shall be wet. We take them all on trial, at fifty guineas a sheet. I lift my eyes upon the radiant Moon, L'Envoy TO VOLUME TENTH. TEN VOLUMES ARE COMPLETED! AND BETWEEN SEVEN AND EIGHT THOUSAND PAGES THEY CONTAIN; PAGES OF JOCULAR OR SOLEMN STRAIN, OF MELTING PATHOS, OF DERISION KEEN, OF CRITICISM TRUE, OF SMILING WIT, OF BOIST'ROUS HUMOUR, MERRIMENT EXQUISITE, BUT, ABOVE ALL, THROUGH GOOD AND ILL SUCCESS, HEWING DOWN THOSE, WHO, GODLESS, HONOURLESS, HAVE SOUGHT BY WORD OR DEED TO WORK HER SHAME, WE O'ER THE EARTH HAVE WON IMMORTAL FAME. INDEX TO VOLUME X. ABSTRACT, brief, of Mr O'Fogarty's Blackwood, Mr, letter of Mr Coleridge to, Journal, 438 Administration, of the Magazine, on the Adventure in the North-west territory, 137 Anastasius, or Memoirs of a modern Greek, Ancient National Melodies, No. I. 554. Ancient World, remarks on dramas of the, Annals of the Parish, letter to the author Apologetical Note, 348 Appointments, military, 236, 356, 487, 605 Asia, remarks on Captain Cochrane's Jour- Balbogle, Mrs Ogle of, 290 Bankrupts, British, 235, 355, 486, 603 Battle of Roslin, the, 299 Birth-day, the King's, in Edinburgh, de- Births, list of, 238, 357, 488, 608 253 Blaize Fitztravesty, A Midsummer Night's Blue and Yellow, learning and liberality British Drama, the Modern, No. I. 53 Bull, John, the, and the Morning Chroni- Byron, Lord, review of his continuation of Canada, the emigrants' voyage to, 455. Characters of Living Authors, by them- Chaucer and Don Juan, remarks on, 295 Christopher Agonistes, 409 Cobbett's Complaint, a dirge, 556 Coleridge, Mr, letter from, 243. Selec- tions from his literary correspondence, Columbus Secundus, the voyages and tra- 5 C No. I. in Edinburgh, 304. Columbus mista- Corbet's, Bishop, remarks on his poems, 88 180 Edinburgh Review, on the learning and li- Emigrants' voyage to Canada, the, 455 Epistles familiar, from an old friend with Expostulatory Round-robin from 14 con- Falkland Palace, account of a visit to, 61 Daniel O'Rourke, an Epic poem, Canto Feldberg's Denmark, remarks on, 172 VI. 429 Deans, a Jeanie, in love, 5 Death, singular recovery from, 582 Dirge, a mother's, over her child, 187 Don Juan, review of the continuation of, and Chaucer, remarks on, 295 Review of the First Murder, a sacred, 321 Dramatic tale, the Vigil of St Mark, a, Duffle, Thomas, the voyages and travels 661 Early Rising, remarks on, 570 Fifeana, No. 1. 60. Visit to Falkland Palace, 61 Fisheries, remarks on those of Shetland, 728 Floating Beacon, the, a scene on the coast Fogarty O'Fogarty, letter from, inclosing Funeral of the late Queen, remarks on the Gall and Spurzheim, remarks on an in- Giorno, Parini's, remarks on, 525 Good Town, the, on the propriety of pro- Grave, the silent, a sonnet, 300 H. Haggart, David, remarks on the cerebral cline, and fall of the Edinburgh Re- Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd, re- Howison's Sketches of Upper Canada, re- Hume, David, letter from, 303 Inquiry into the doctrines of necessity and predestination, remarks on Coplestone's, Instruction, moral and religious, on its pro- Italian literature, on the decline of the Tus- 759 Lines on the King's landing in Ireland, Maga, on the outcry against, 217-Disco- Man, the, in the Bell, 373 Mechanique Celeste; or, the Prophetic Al- 267 Midnight Despondings; a Sonnet, 327 Italian school of painting, remarks on the, Midsummer-night's Dream, in blank verse, 528 Keats, John, remarks on an elegy on the King James the Muse's welcome to, ex- the, Ode on his landing in Ireland, Latin prosody from England, remarks on, Learning and liberality of the Blue and Leg of Mutton School of Prose, the, 563- 282 by Blaize Fitztravesty, 557-Procemium, Moral and religious instruction, on the Moscow, lines on, written after the invasion Murder, the First, a Sacred Drama, review National Melodies, ancient, No. I., 554 Necessity and Predestination, on the doc- North, Christopher, familiar epistles to, private, to all whom it may concern, |