lives.*

ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL DES SAVANS,
FOR SEPTEMBER 1818.

(Concluded.)

being few, because of their not being seen our unfortunate companions lost their
so much as formerly, is I think an erroneous
one. That they should not appear near
the coasts of the island is easily explained.
The settlers thought they could not do a
more meritorious act than to shoot an Indian
whenever they could fall in with him. They
were thus banished from their original
haunts into the interior, of which they had
probably but little knowledge, their chief
dependance for food being fish and sea fowl.
They probably were not then as now pro-
vided with the proper implements for killing
deer, at least in sufficient quantities for
their subsistence. As our establishments
and population increased to the northward
of Cape Freels, they were obliged to retreat
farther from the coast; but the same evil
that forced the natives to retreat, brought
with it the means whereby they might still
procure subsistence with a more indepen-
dent life; for as the fisheries increased
and the settlers became more numerous,
the natives were enabled to obtain iron

and other articles by plunder and from

wrecks.

There are various opinions as to the origin of the Newfoundland Indians; some conceiving them to have come from the continent of America, others that they are the descendants of the old Norwegian navigators, who are supposed to have discovered this island near a thousand years ago. I had persons with me that could speak the Norwegian and most of the dialects known in the north of Europe, but they could in no wise understand them; to me their speech appeared as a complete jargon, uttered with great rapidity and vehemence, and differed from all the other Indian tribes that I had heard, whose language generally

flows in soft melodious sounds.

The general face of the country in the interior exhibits a mountainous appearance, with rivers, ponds, and marshes in the intermediate levels or valleys; the timber, which is mostly white and red spruce, fine birch and ash, is much stunted in its growth, and those trees which have arrived at any considerable dimensions are generally decayed at the heart. In advancing into the interior, the birch diminishes both in size and quantity till it almost wholly disappears. In many places the woods are burnt down for a considerable extent, and in others young woods have sprung up, and their several growths evidently shew the fires to have been made at different periods, but none had been burnt for thirty miles below the lake; this general remark is made from observation on the banks of the river. The pond on which the natives were found does not appear to have been discovered from any excursion from the north side of the island; but there is no question of its having been seen in some route from the Bay of Islands along by the Humber River, or from St. George's Bay by a communication of waters; for in Cook and Lane's chart, published by Laurie and Whittle in May 1794, there is a pond delineated, which, from relative distances and appearances, have no doubt to be the same on which

Mr. Marsden, desirous of wholly dispelling the doubts which have been raised

* Of this catastrophe we gave an account in concerning the authenticity and exactness of his author's narrative, desirous also of our last.-ED. clearing up all that remained obscure, and of placing in their full light the historical facts which are merely indicated in it, has undertaken a great commentary, or a series of notes, some of which are very extensive, and the number of which amounts to fifteen hundred and twenty-nine. We find collected in them all the passages of the modern Authors who have given new details on the events related by the Venetian traveller, on the persons whom he mentions, on the places, the manners, the productions of nature and industry with which he has made us acquainted. But what is especially valuable, is the collection of the various ways in which the proper names are found written in the most ancient editions, and in the MSS. which he has been able to consult, as well as the etymology of these names, and the corrections which seem necessary to recover the primitive orthography: a delicate and difficult part, in which Mr. Marsden rarely goes astray, because he knows how to stop often, and at the proper place.

Art. V. The Travels of Marco Polo, &c.
Translated by W. Marsden, Esq.
Of all the travellers who visited the Eastern
parts of the ancient continent before the fif-
teenth century, Marco Polo is the most
celebrated and most generally esteemed.
Far from his reputation being diminished
by the progress of geographical science,
though charged with exaggeration by his
contemporaries, we find new reasons to ad-
mire his accuracy, and to be convinced of
his truth, in proportion as we become
better acquainted with the countries which
he has described.

Mr. Marsden, who, during his residence
in Sumatra, had an opportunity of judging
by his own experience of the accuracy and
authenticity of the narrative of Marco Polo
in what concerned that island, was long
desirous that some man of learning would
give a new edition of the text of that tra-
veller, with a commentary to explain the
obscure parts. Many French literati enter-
tained the same wish; but a critical edi-
tion of Marco Polo was no easy task.

Mr. Marsden's modesty does not permit him to believe that he possesses all the qualifications required by the Abbe Morelli, whose letter he quotes, but he flatters himself, with much reason, that they are not all equally indispensable to give a more complete and correct edition of the work of this traveller than any preceding, and even to illustrate it, by comparing with his text a mass of information of every kind, since obtained, respecting the countries which he visited. The importance of this comparison to the history and geography of Asia in the 13th century, rendered this task a worthy object of the pains which Mr. Marsden has bestowed upon it.

Nevertheless, we might perhaps have hoped from a new editor of Marco Polo, an improvement, in the relation of the traveller, which would have placed his work much above that of Muller. We might expect, in beginning to read his text, chosen with so much care, and corrected by the collation of so many MSS. that we should no longer meet with these proper names altered, disfigured, and not be recognized, which, in the preceding editions every moment offend the well-informed reader; such as Succuir, Sachion, Erginul, Egrigaya, and so many other names of cities and countries which belong to none of the idioms of Tartary, and the strange and evidently disfigured form of which proves the ignorance or the negligence of the copiers, and shakes the confidence which we would wish to place in the author; for the corruption of the words seems to indicate In an introduction, which would be sepa- a mistatement of facts, and we find it rately a very estimable essay, the author has difficult to believe that a traveller who reanimadverted on the life of Marco Polo, on lates so incorrectly the names of the counthe authenticity of his narrative, on the trics which he has visited, should aftermanuscripts of it which have been pre-wards describe them with accuracy. Unserved, on the translations of it which happily, since Mr. Marsden, in so many anhave been made into all the languages of cient editions which he has compared, in Europe, and on the principal editions of it so many MSS. which he has collated, has which have been published. Mr. Marsden not found means to remove this stain, we thinks, with Simon Grynæus, that Marco must believe that it is indelible. Polo composed his work in Italian, and controverts the opinion of Ramusio and some others, that it was written in Latin by a Genoese, named Rustigielo, who was his secretary.

Passing over the detail into which Mr. Marsden has entered respecting the various MSS. and the Latin, Italian, French, German, &c. editions of his original, we observe merely that, like Purchas, he has preferred the version of Ramusio, not as being the most ancient, but as the most correct and complete,

The reviewer thinks that Ir. Marsden has erred in the application of some of the names in Marco Polo, to cities of China; and he observes, that a great difficulty is caused by the frequent changes which the names of places in China have undergone since the time of the author, of which he gives some instances. The explanation of the Voyage in China would be much assisted by the table of the names which the cities of that empire have borne under the different dynasties, which is printed in French in the 12th volume of the General

History of P. Mailla, and of which the reviewer possesses the original (much more complete and more exact,) printed in China under the title of Hoang-thou-piao. Unfortunately this assistance is wanting for the most important portion of the journey.

In two parts of his work, at least, the English editor seems to have completely attained his object, and to have left in his author's text no difficulties but such as it is now perhaps impossible to surmount. By comparing the observations on the provinces of Eastern Persia, the countries near the Indus and the Transoxanes, collected by Goez, and recently by Messrs. Forster, Elphinstone, and Pottinger, with those of Marco Polo, he has perfectly explained the one by the other: we see by this what he could have done, if he had every where had equally good information. Afterwards, when the traveller comes to speak of the kingdoms of Eastern India, and of the isles of the South, when he describes the productions and the commerce of Great Java, which the commentator takes to be Borneo, and of Little Java, which seems to be Sumatra, and which Marco Polo divides into eight kingdoms, then the learned historian of Sumatra is upon his own ground.

M. Remusat thinks that the works of the Chinese geographers on the Southern countries would have afforded materials for an excellent commentary on the chapters of Marco Polo relating to them; and he expresses his surprise that Mr. Marsden has made no use of the extracts from these works given by P. Amiot, which, though very imperfect, would have furnished him with some information. After stating some objections to the map, M. Remusat concludes, by declaring his opinion that Mr. Marsden's is a most estimable and eminently useful work, which gives him fresh claims to the gratitude of the learned, whose esteem he had already acquired by his History of Sumatra, and his productions on the Malay language.

I send you what is in some measure a literary curiosity, Voltaire's analysis of Rousseau's Eloise. The French wit, who could bear " no brother near the throne," was naturally roused by the celebrity of the Swiss romancer; and the critique on his profligate and popular work, has the power of envenamed genius. It instantly ran through Switzerland and Europe in manuscript. But as it is, I believe, scarcely known to the later readers in this country, and as it deserves to be known, from its fine and fair development of the most unprincipled work that ever pretended to morality, I wish to see it take a place in your Journal.

LUIGI.

In those days there shall appear in France a very extraordinary person, come from the banks of the Lake of Geneva. He shall say unto the people, I am possessed of the demon of enthusiasm: I have received from heaven the gift of inconsistency. And the multitude shall run after him, and many shall believe in him, and he shall say unto them, Ye are all villains and rascals, your women are all abandoned, and I am come to live among you. And he shall take advantage of the natural levity of this country, to abuse the people; and he shall add, that all the men are virtuous in the country where he was born; and he shall maintain that the sciences and the arts must necessarily corrupt our morals, and he shall treat of all sorts of sciences and arts; and he shall maintain that the theatre is a source of corruption, and he shall compose operas and write plays. He shall publish, that there is no virtue but among savages, though he never was among them; he shall advise mankind to go naked, and he shall wear laced clothes, when given to him. He shall employ his time in writing French VI. Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne. music, and he shall tell you there is no Par M. Delambre. 2 vols. 4to. French music. He shall tell you, that it is This article is only the commencement of impossible to preserve your morals if you the review of this great and excellent work, read romances, and he shall compose a roor rather of the two first volumes, which mance; and in this romance shall be seen are all that have yet been published, and vice in deeds and virtue in words, and the treat of the Astronomy of the Chaldeans, actors in it shall be mad with love an with the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Indians, philosophy; and in this romance we shall and the Chinese. We fear that, without far learn how to seduce philosophically, and exceeding our usual limits, we could not the disciple shall lose all shame and all give any view of so laborious and learned a modesty, and she shall practise folly and work which could be satisfactory to astro- raise maxims with her masters. And his nomical readers, and therefore content our-love-letters shall be philosophical homilies; selves for the present with simply noticing it. When the whole review is before us, we may perhaps endeavour to extract the general result. From the present article we see that M. Delambre, recognising the claims of the Chaldeans and Egyptians to all the knowledge of facts which a long and diligent observation of the phenomena can give, denies them to have possessed scientific or mathematical astronomy.

and he shall get drunk with an English
nobleman, who shall insult him, and he
shall challenge him to fight, and his mis-
tress, who has lost the honour of her own
sex, shall decide with regard to that of
men, and she shall teach her master, who
taught her every thing, that he ought not
to fight. And he shall go to Paris, where he
shall be introduced to wantons of the
town, and he shall get drunk like a fool ;

and he shall write an account of this adventure to his mistress, and she shall thank him for it. The man who shall marry his mistress shall know that she is loved to distraction by another, and this Atheist; and she shall write to her lover, good man notwithstanding shall be an that if she were again at liberty she would wed her husband rather than him: and the

philosopher shall have a mind to kill himto prove that a lover ought always to kill self, and shall compose a long dissertation himself when he has lost his mistress; and her husband shall prove to him that it is not worth while, and he shall not kill himself. Then he shall set out to make the tour of the world, in order to allow time for the children of his mistress to grow up, and that he may get to Switzerland time enough to be their preceptor, and to teach them vir

tue as he has done their mother. And he shall see nothing in the tour of the world; and he shall return to Europe, and when he shall have arrived there, they shall still love each other with transport, and they shall squeeze each other's hands and weep. And this fine lover being in a boat alone with his mistress, shall have a mind to throw her into the water, and himself along with her.And all this they shall call philosophy and virtue; and they shall talk so much of philosophy and virtue, that nobody shall know what philosophy or virtue is. And the mistress of the philosopher shall have a few trees and a rivulet in her garden, and she shall call that her Elysium, and nobody shall be able to comprehend what that Elysium is; every day she shall feed sparrows in her garden; and she shall sup in the midst of her harvest people; and she shall cut hemp with them, having her lover at her side, and the philosopher shall be desirous of cutting hemp the day after, and the day after that, and all the days of his life. And she shall be a pedant in every word she says, and all the rest of her sex shall be contemptible in her eyes. And she shall die; and before she dies, she shall preach, according to custom; and she shall talk incessantly, till her strength fails her; and she shall dress herself out like a coquette, and die like a saint.

The author of this book, like those empirics who make wounds in order to shew the virtue of their balsams, shall poison our souls for the glory of curing them, and this poison shall act violently on the understanding and on the heart, and the antidote shall operate only on the understanding; and the poison shall triumph, and he shall boast of having opened a gulph, and he shall think he saves himself from all blame, by crying, "Woe be to the young girls who shall fall into it, I have warned them against it in my Preface"-and young girls never read a preface; and he shall say, by way of excuse for his having written a book which inspires vice, that he lives in an age wherein it is impossible to be good; and to justify himself, he shall slander the whole world, and threaten with his contempt all those who do not like his book; and every body shall wonder how, with a soul so pure, he

MODERN RUSSIA AND THE
ANCIENT COLCHIS!!!

Extract from a Letter from Captain Moritz Fon Kotzebue, of the General Staff, dated 28 June 1818, from Kutais on the Rioni, the residence of the former Czars of Imi

reti.

I determined to begin my work in Spring on the Black Sea. I left Teflis on the 21st of March, and in 11 days performed the journey, over Cartalinia and Imireti to Rodut-Kule. Here I went for the first time these twelve years on board a ship, and sailed to Sugum-Kale, in the Province of Arosia, finished ny labours there, and arrived in May again at Rodut-Kule, whence I went to Cutais. Here also I hope to have done soon, as I next go to the frontiers of Persia and to the Caspian Sea; and in the Spring of 1819, if it please God, I trust I shall have terminated my whole commission.

lump of which they brought with them to England, which has since been analysed by some scientific gentlemen at the Royal Institution, and found to be composed of 3 per cent. nickel, the rest iron. From the circumstance of nickel never having been found in iron, but in one instance, viz. a lump brought by Professor Pallas from Russia, which the Royal Academies of London and Paris pronounced to be meteoric, and fallen from the clouds, there remains no doubt of that brought from Baffin's Bay

could compose a book which is so much | latsch, the iron gates by which an aspiring the reverse; and many who believed in him Czar of Imireti thought to perpetuate his shall believe in him no more. deeds, by pulling them down at the conquest of Derbent on the Caspian Sea, dragging them hither, and having himself buried near them. Poor Czar! nobody now knows if thy name was David or Solomon, and the one half of your trophy has been converted into nails by an economical Bishop! This convent, and the church of Cutais, are of beautiful Greek architecture, and the only remains of the former splendour of Colchis. The Rioni, a beautiful rapid river, rises in Caucasus, and runs through the whole of Colchis, a country in which there is much picturesque scenery and many forests. Cu-being of a similar kind. This extraortais is delightfully situated, and if Medea dinary fact, perhaps the most important really once guarded the Golden Fleece, it was result of the Expedition, may not only certainly on this spot. The Czars of Imireti teach us ultimately how to explain the were also wise enough to choose this spot phenomena of the Northern Lights, from for their residence. In fact, the Ancients which it is possible meteoric iron may were right to establish colonies here, be- be produced to an extent hitherto uncause any thing may be made of this coun-imagined, but also to account for the try, and thanks to the present Comremarkable variations of the compass in mander-in-Chief, General Jermolow, much these latitudes, if not to unravel the is now making of it. By his order, an excellent causeway, which is nothing inferior entire mystery of Magnetism and the to the best in Germany, has been construct-Needle. ed over the mountains which divide Cartalinia from Imireti, and which were formerly only passable for horses; whereby a new way to trade has been opened between Georgia and the Black Sea. Rodut-Kule, or some other port in this sea, may in time become a flourishing commercial town, and then will Jermolow's activity have again found, the true Golden Fleece in Colchis. The venerable Major-General Kwrnatoffsky, Governor of Inireti, has in a short time gained the love and esteem of the whole nation.

I carry my tent and all my household with me, otherwise I should be scorched or die of buuger. My sumpter-borse deserves to be painted by a clever artist, and to be engraved in England. Conceive on his back, or hanging at his sides, a confused heap of kettles, ropes of onions, sacks, baggage, live and dead fowls, in short, every thing that belongs to the kitchen, and upon the top a drunken Denschick (a soldier in attendance,) who carries with great care his cap full of eggs. A revolution very frequently takes place in this equiThe live capons, tired of hanging, begin to fight all round. The fellow at first preaches patience to them, at last it comes to blows, the horse gets frightened, runs away, and we are in the end obliged to pick up piece by piece, the fellow, the capons, and the whole paraphernalia of the kitchen.

page.

Imireti, where I am at present, is the ancient Colchis. The celebrated river Phasis, now called Rioni, flows at my feet, but unfortunately, it no longer brings down any gold with it, as it did 2000 years ago. It is said, that at that time the beautiful Medea guarded the Golden Fleece, and Jason was to carry it off. He would probably have been a match for men, and even for dragons, but instead of a spirited dragon he found a spirited girl, who conquered him.

Straho counted 130 stone bridges over the Phasis, where there is at present but one bridge, and even that is a wooden one. The same author speaks of many cities and villages, of which there are now no traces existing. Tvo thousand years were indeed sufficient to sweep whole nations from the earth, and therefore we laugh at the ambition of immortality, when we see, eight wersts from Cutais, in the Convent at Ge

This commission appears to be the settlement of the new boundary-line between Russia and Persia.-ED.

+ Whence Pheasants,' as all our classical

readers remember, these birds being originally found on its banks by the Argonants,

LEARNED SOCIETIES.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

THE POLAR EXPEDITION.-That branch of the Expedition which examined Baffin's Bay, it is asserted in Blackwood's Magazine, as a fact which may be relied upon, fully ascertained that the northern point of the Bay is in 780 of latitude, and that there was no passage from it to the North West. The greatest dip of the needle was 86°; and the greatest variation H1° west.

GAS LIGHTS.-Mr. Paterson, of Montrose, has been making experiments on Gas Light (suggested as it should seem by those carried into practice by Mr. Muir, of Kelso,) the result of which is likely to become very beneficial. His mode of obtaining the Gas PARIS. The Academy of Sciences, in from the coal, is, we (Constable's Edinits sitting of Tuesday, appointed three fo-burgh Mug izine) believe, very little differeign correspondents-Mr. Brisbane, in rent from the common; but his method of Scotland, for the division of astronomy, in preserving and storing up the gas in airplace of M. Ferer, deceased; Mr. Sinith, tight bags, and dealing it out in portions as for the division of botany, in place of M. it is needed, is what appears most worthy of Swartz, deceased; and M. Kunth, for the notice. He has stated to the Provost the same division, in place of the Baron Picot practicability of lighting the public lamps Lapeyrouse, likewise deceased. of the town, on his plan, at less than half the commou expense; and with proposes, a small apparatus, not exceedi. g the trifling expense of 81. to satisfy the magistrate on that subject. He proposes to have a gasometer under every lamp, in the form of a The officers in the Expedition under column, of a capacity sufficient to contain as much gas as will burn eight hours, and Captain Ross, lately returned from Bafon a plan quite different from the common fin's Bay, expressed their great astonish-gasometer. These are to be charged with ment to have found the native Esqui- gas every day from the bags, by means of maux in possession of instruments made a kind of bellows, and in less time than one of Iron, which led them to imagine ei- conld trim the oil and wick lamps. Thus ther that they must at some period have the great expense and inconvenience of had traffic with other nations, which pipes conveying the gas through the town would be saved, and the disagreeable smell, seemed almost impossible, or that Iron which unavoidably rises from these pipes, must be produced there. A diligent be also prevented. By the same method search, however, satisfied them on the the gas might be retailed to families, and point, for an immense mass of iron was kept in portable gasometers moveable dicovered on the surface of the earth, a about the house at pleasure,

METEORIC IRON, FROM
BAFFIN'S BAY.

782

THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND

In

Thes. been nearly doubled; upwards of 4,000 men and about 500 women having been forwarded thither, from this country and Ireland, since June of the last year. may now be estimated at 25,000 souls. including the settlers who have since gone 1812, the total number of inhabitants were out, the entire population of the territory only 12,471, by which it will appear they have been doubled in six years! Mr. Oxley, the Surveyor-General, had just again left head-quarters with a party, to prosecute the intention of the Government, in exploring the interior of New Holland, to the westward of the Blue Mountains. westward of the Blue Mountains.

COVENT GARDEN.-The Operatic Fairy [ us of that gratification, it must be acknow- this portion of the population will have Tale, from le petit Chaperon Rouge, which ledged that they have the best of the joke we have mentioned as so successful on the on the great stage of the world. During Continent, was brought out as an after- the performance of Adele et Dorsan, the piece at Covent Garden, on Thursday, public expressed their sentiments enerunder the title of ROSE D'AMOUR, or getically in favour of a nation, whose glory Little Red Hiding Hat. The scenery is and superiority the hatred and jealousy niöst admirable, but the drama itself is of her enemies can never pardon. feeble. A Miss Beaumont made her debut as Rose d'Amour; she is an interesting performer, and sings sweetly. Duruset, as Rudolf, covered himself with musical Laurels, though not with Roses. Upon the two performers we have named the burthen of the piece lay, respecting the merits of which, the audience were divided between approbation and disapprobation. It is a foreign sort of thing, and does not fulfil our expectations.

MR. EDITOR,

VARIETIES

The following singular coincidence is pointed out by a Correspondent. The 17th of November has proved fatal to three on that day, in 1558; Catherine, second Queens. Mary, Queen of England, died Empress of Russia, in 1796; and our late illustrious Queen in the present year.

Official accounts have been received from

Golownin: He sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 14th of November 1817, in the sloop the celebrated Russian navigator, Captain be-Kamschatha. After a perilous course he entered port Callao, near Lima, on the 19th of February 1818. The Viceroy received this officer in the most hospitable manner, who is well-known by his journey to Japan, Captain sailed again for Kamschatka and the long captivity that he endured. The the 1st of March last.

A magnificent collection of antiques, longing to M. Lidman, a native of Sweden, I was much amused by the late corres- was destroyed by the late fire at Constantipondence on "Othello's handkerchief," and nople. In 1816, this collection was packed should have been more so, but for the mer-up in eleven great chests, only one of which, ciless length of the letters. Have you no containing an Egyptian mummy, has been procrustean bed for the measure of these saved from the general destruction. About endless replications? Last week the longi- eight hundred volumes, being a collection tude of their contents, and the latitude of of several classic authors in the ancient and their surmises, gave me a world of trouble, modern languages, together with a consiand what must they not have given you? derable number of Coptic and Arabian I can imagine you with a grieving heart manuscripts, which M. Lidman had oband a powerful hand making room for tained in course of his travels in the East, them by committing devastation every where were likewise lost. M. Lidman has now else; here an Iceberg laid on the shelf, arrived at Constantinople from Messina; there an Inundation put into the fire, a and instead of finding his treasures in safety, South American Battle returned on its he has to deplore their irreparable loss. bringer's hands, a Storm torn to light your candle, and a blazing Volcano coldly laid up in your waistcoat pocket. Now, let your correspondents follow the rare and Hot less excellent example which I set them in my present Query:-In three words,

"Was Hamlet mad?"*

LUIGI.

The French Government has determined to improve the establishments at Cayenne bles of both Indies. Plants which have his for the extensive cultivation of the vegetatherto remained unknown, are to be brought and naturalized in Guyana, for the purpose of thence transporting them to Europe; and at the same time, plants which are peculiar to Europe will be conveyed to

THEATRICAL MORALITY!-A fair daughter of Terpsichore, engaged at one of the principal theatres in Paris, some time ago manifested an ardent attachment for a young man, whose expectations in life were derness could suggest, to break off a conof a very humble kind. Her mother had nection which, to use her own words, at endeavoured, by every means maternal tenonce shocked her delicacy, and wounded the overpowering eloquence of a wealthy banker, purity of her morals. After numerous expostulations, the old lady, aided by the who was continually talking of his riches, had the satisfaction to find her daughter completely converted. The other evening, in the coulisses of the Opera, the mother

Brevity is indeed as well the essential requisite for such a publication as ours as it is the soul of wit. We therefore abstain from insert- Guyana, whence, as soon as they shall be. was boasting of lier triumph to a female

ing the letters of our other Correspondents on the subject of Othello, as they do not ap pear to us to place the subject in any new point of view sufficiently curious to sanction our offering the re-discussion of the whole question to our readers. But judging, from the numerous communications we have received on this matter, that such inquiries are generally liked, we not only give place to Luigi's Quere, but shall at a convenient time do the same for that on Shylock.

FOREIGN DRAMA.

GHENT THEATRE.

come naturalized to the climate, they will
French Guyana will
be transplanted, and spread over the most
distant continents.
thus become a kind of entrepot for every
thing appertaining to natural history.

BOTANY BAY.-Particular accounts have
recently been received from this remark-
cluded at the date of 1817, gave the follow-
able Colony. The annual muster, con-
ing results :-

Total number of souls in N.S. Wales 17,165
3,214
Ditto, in Van Dieman's Land .

We have not for some time past witnessed
so interesting a representation as that for
the benefit of M. Claparede. The Burgo-
muster of Saardam owes its success to the
character of the English Ambassador, and,
qua
above all, the excellent acting of M. Cla-
parede, who has in fact created the cha-So
racter, by giving it a colouring which per-ca
haps the author never intended. The allu-
sions against England are eagerly seized by 4,
the audience. We laugh at the English in our s
Theatres; but, though they cannot deprive si

.

Population of the territory 20,379 There were 14,500 acres of wheat in cultivation in New South Wales, 1,250 acres of potatoes, barley, and oats, and 11,700 of stock exclusively in New acres of maize. The following are the -Horses, 2,850, Horned Sheep, 66,700, Pigs, 11,400. e 20,379 souls, there were victs; 1,340 women priof their children. And his census was concluded,

friend, and describing the anxiety and displaced attachment of the pretty Rose:tress she had suffered owing to the mis"At last, my dear madam," said she, "the girl has recovered her senses! I knew she

would soon blush for her choice! How could she entertain regard for a man who must have ruined her in the public opinion: as it is, is thrown away of sweetmeats and all sense of religion, and his income, scanty for you know, Madam, the wretch is lost to trash!" Rose, of course, figures as the mistress of the Banker, instead of being the young lover's wife.

Among the signatures to some commercial resoltitions in the Cornwall Gazette last week; is that of John Hawke, Ropemaker, for himself"!

A BULL-An Irishman having put on mourning for Her late Majesty, was told No," said he, "I did that he had forgotten to put a black ri band to his watch. not forget it." But when you were lately in mourning you had a black watch r Yes, but then I was in mourning band.' for myself!".