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rials of the illustrious dead, and placed them in the old house of Boccacio, wnich' she had cleared and adorned.—Mon. Rev.

Science and Art.

eggs boiled in less than five. This ingenious contrivance is well calculated for general utility in the summer time, when fires are little lighted; and for the chamber of sick and ailing persons at all seasons. Lit. Gaz.

ENGRAVING IN MEZZOTINTO.

As mezzotinto engravings has been revived in this country with so much success by many artists of first rate talent during the last four or five years, after having been neglected and looked on with a coldness almost bordering on contempt for a number of years, it may not be out of place to insert here the following extract from the life of Sir Christopher Wren, published within the last ten days by the Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, which in some degree seems calculated to shake the received opinion of Prince Rupert having been the inventor of the art.

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Among (Sir C. Wren's) discoveries in this art, there appears great ground to suppose that it was he and not Prince Rupert, who first invented the art of engraving in Mezzotinto, though it was subsequently much advanced by the Prince; who did not, however, bear any ill-will towards his rival; for it appears from the Parentalia, that Wren was enrolled in the list of his especial friends, to whom that distinguished personage sent a yearly present of his choicest wine, from his vineyard on the Rhine."

NOVEL APPARATUS FOR HEATING FLUIDS.

Mr. Jones of the Strand, whose devices for useful domestic purposes have been so well appreciated by the public: has recently invented another very neat and complete apparatus for boiling a small quantity of water, and consequently for preparing any slight matters which may be required for the chambers of nurses of invalids. In a small tin tray are placed two vessels of about the capacity of a pint each; in one is a cylinder over a lampthe other is simply a pan, into the lower part of which runs a close funnel, like the extinguisher of a candle. Into the cylinder is put a small quantity of spirits of wine; the lamp below is trimmed with the same; and from the upper vessel a curbed tube is brought to point horizontally upon the flame. As the alcohol is heated, the gas issues from this tube as if it were a blowpipe, and a jet of flame is propelled with the force of a furnace into the funnel of the opposite vessel. By this ready and easy process, water-gruel, or any other liquid, is warmed in two or three minutes, and

Anecdotiana.

REWARD OF BRAVERY.

When Solyman, Emperor of the Turks, took the Castle of Buda, in 1529, he found, in one of the dungeons of the castle, Nedasti, the Governor of the place. He was curious to know the cause of so extraordinary a circumstance, when the German's confessed to him, that Nedasti having reproached them as cowards and traitors, because they pressed him to come to a capitulation, they had thrown him into a dungeon in order to free themselves from his controul. The Sultan, filled with admiration at the fidelity and bravery of the noble-minded governor, loaded him with presents and commendations of his conduct-granted him his liberty, and condemed to death all those who had violated, in so shameful a manner, the laws of military subordination.

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Louis, the XVI., was an excellent locksmith. Ferdinand, the Beloved, is famous for his embroidery of petticoats. The present Emperor of Austria is said to make the best sealing wax in Europe. He examines, with care, the seal of every letter brought him, and is delighted when he can say, as he generally does. own wax is better than that!" It is a pity the employments of Kings are not always as innocent,-Ferdinand would have no doubt made an excellent linen-draper's shopman, had he been placed where nature designed him to be fixed; and the representatives of the Caesars would have made an excellent managing clerk in the house of certain wholesale stationers.Weekly Rev.

THE DUKE OF SOMERSET, AND SEYMOUR,

THE HORSE-PAINTER.

There is an excellent anecdote extant of Seymour, the horse-painter, who having been affronted by Charles, the old haughty Duke of Somerset, in consequence of having asserted that he believed he had the honour to belong to his grace's family. Sometime after this rupture had taken place, he was requested by his grace to return to his seat at Petworth, and finish a picture which no other painter of the day was able to complete-when he, nobly answered," My Lord, I will now prove that I am of your grace's family,for I won't come!" Mr. Dallaway, in his augmented edition of Walpole's anecdotes of Painting in England, gives the following continuation of this anecdote :

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Upon receiving this laconic reply, the duke sent his steward to demand a former loan of £100. Seymour, briefly replied, that he would write to his grace. He did so; and directed his letter Northumberland House, opposite the Trunk-maker's, Charing Cross. Enraged at this additional insult, the duke threw the letter into the fire without having opened it, ordering his steward at the same time to have him arrested. But Seymour, struck with an opportunity of evasion carelessly observed, that, it was hasty in his grace to burn his letter, because it contained a bank note for £100-and, that, therefore, they were now quits.'

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MARCH OF INTELLECT.

The following notice is written beneath the letter box of the New National Repository-Letters, addressed by post to the National Repository will not be received if the postage is not paid.

REPLY OF FRANCESCI FOSCARI ΤΟ THE AUSTRIAN MINISTER.

The winged lion of St. Mark, the patron Saint of Venice, has been the ancient arms of the Republic ever since his remains were brought to the city from the Levant. In the arms, the animal is re presented holding between his claws the book of the laws of that evangelical saint, and is distinguished from his brother lions by having a crown on his head, with wings rising out of his shoulders, which insignia were at the head of all the decrees and acts of the Republic. This circumstance gave rise to the witty reply of Foscari to Prince Kaunitz, the Austrian Minister, on his asking one day, in the presence of the Empress Maria Theresa, at whose court resided the great paterpatriæ, Francosco Foscari, as Venetian

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DATE. DAYS.

May

Diary and Chronology.

DIARY

DATE

2 Frid. St. Athanasius.
High Water,

47m af. 3 morn
7m af. 4 even

3 Satur. St. Alexander.
Sun ris 33m af. 4
-sets 28m af, 7

4SUN. 4th Sunday after

Easter.

6 c. Deut. morn.

7 c. Deut. even.
St. Monica.
High Water,

Ilm af. 5 morn
37m af. 5 even.

5 Mond. St. Pius.
Sun ris. 29m af. 4
-sets 31m af. 7

6 Tues. St. John.
Moon's last quar'
32m af. 5 even

7 Wed St. Benedict II.
High Water,

5m af. 8 morn
39m af. 8 even.

8 Thurs St. Victor.

CORRESPONDING CHRONOLOGY.

April 2St. Athanasius, patriarch of Alexandria,`is celebrated for his opposition to the Arians, and from his name having been affixed to the creed which contains his doctrines.

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1813. The memorable battle of Lutzen, in Saxony, was fought on this day, when the army of Buonaparte defeated the allied forces of Russia, Prussia, and Brandenburgh, with great loss, taking several thousand prisoners.

8 St. Alexander, a native of Rome, was pope, and held the pontificate in the time of Ælius Adrianus. After having sat ten years and seven months, he suffered martyrdom, A. D. 119.

The Festival of the Invention of the Cross, is celebrated on this day in the Romish church, to commemorate the invention or finding of a wooden cross, supposed to be the true one, by Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great. 1469. Born at Florence, Nicholas Machiavel, celebrated as a politician, dramatist, and historian. A treatise written by him, entitled the Prince contains the most pernicious maxims of government, founded on the worst principles. His death was occasioned by taking medicine unadvisedly, A. D. 1529.

4 St. Monica was mother of St. Augustine, and a woman of great piety.

1471. The battle of Tewkesbury was fought on this day, which was the last that took place between the adherents of the rival houses of York and Lancaster. The issue of this conflict was fatal to the Lancastrians. The field in which the battle was fought retains the name of the Bloody Field, and is distant from the town half a mile. In the civil war in Charles's reign, Tewkesbury was the scene of many severe contests between the contending forces. 5 St. Pius V. was born at

Bosco, in the diocese of Tortona, A. D. 1504. He was a Dominican, and made bishop of Sutri by Paul IV. After the death of his predecessor in the papacy, Pius IV. he was elected pope in 1566. He excommunicated Q. Elizabeth, and by his bull deposed her from royal dignities, conferring her crown upon Mary, Q. of Scots. He died in 1572.

1821. Died, in exile, at St. Helena, Napoleon Buonaparte, T. 51, the inveterate enemy of England, of a lingering illness, which had confined him to his bed for upwards of forty days. His remains were interred in the above solitary island, at the head of Rupert's Valley, mid-way between James Town and Longwood.

6 St. John the evangelist was banished to the isle of Patmos, and remained there till the death of Domitian, when he returned to Asia and died in the reign of Trajan.

1811 Died, on this day, Richard Cumberland,
Esq; one of the best dramatists of modern times.
His poem, entitled Calvary and the Observer,
a work in the manner of the Spectator, evince
powers of the highest order.

7 St. Benedict II. succeeded Leo II. in the pontifi-
cate, and died A. D. 685. The emperor Constan-
tine for his great sanctity, issued a decree, in
which it was established that he should be ac-
knowledged as Christ's true Vicar on Earth.
121. Born, on this day, the emperor Marcus Au-
relius Antoninus, surnamed the Philosopher.
His many acts of justice and benificence have
marked him out as one of the greatest monarchs
the world ever saw. His meditations have been
translated into English.

8 St. Victor was martyred during the persecutions
of Dioclesian, A. D. 302.

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ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE.

THE WOOING AT GRAFTON.

It was one of those fresh and balmy summer evenings which sometimes succeed a day of scarcely endurable sultriness. The breathless stillness and heat of noon had given place to a refreshing breeze which rippled the waves of the Ouse, and stirred the countless leaves of the forest, through which the river meandered. The sun was setting in unclouded magnificence; and although his rays had greatly declined in intensity and strength, they had lost nothing of their splendour and their brightness. The birds, whose floods of melody appeared to have been dried up during the day, now poured forth a tide of song so full and resistless, that it seemed as if they intended during the short interval previous to the hour of roosting, to make amends for the silence of so many hours.

A lady of a stately figure and features, of exquisite beauty, was walking on the banks of the river. She was followed by a female attendant, and led by the hand a youth who seemed to be about nine or VOL. I. T

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ten years of age. She was tall and finely formed; her eyes were large, black, and bright; her ringlets, which were as black and almost as bright, fell down to her shoulders; her complexion was exquisitely fair, approaching even to paleness. seemed to have scarcely attained twenty years of age, but the tears which streamed down her cheeks, the melancholy expression of her eye, especially when it glanced on the stripling by her side, and the widow's weeds in which she was apparelled, too plainly told that, young as she was, sorrow had outstripped time, and premature clouds had darkened the morning of her days.

"Adelaide," she said, addressing her attendant, "" see'st thou yonder alder-tree, how it gleams and brightens in the rays of the sun; but that sun is setting; into those crimson clouds beneath him that like a sanguinary sea he will shortly sink, and then the tree which now gleams and brightens will be surrounded with desolation and darkness."

"But to-morrow, madam-" said the attendant.

"Talk not of the morrow to me," in18 SATURDAY MAY 10, 1828.

terrupted the lady-" to me, on whose darkened fortunes no morrow shall ever dawn. Alas! like yonder tree I flourished; brightness was on my head and around my path; but the sun that shone upon me has set, has set in a sea of blood."

"Sweet lady!" said Adelaide, "but I will talk to thee of the morrow, for a morrow of joy and gladness shall dawn upon thee yet: King Edward is gallant and generous and although Sir John Grey fell fighting the battles of the Red Rose, he will not visit on his widow and orphans the transgressions of the husband and the father."

"Alas! Adelaide, only this day have I received a letter from my noble mother, who informs me that all her importunities have been in vain. The King has been besieged by her in his palace at Westminster more unremittingly than ever he was by Clifford or Northumberland, or the most zealous Lancastrian, when shut up in some iron fortress which constituted his only territory. The ruthless Richard Plantagenet, he whom they now call the Duke of Gloucester, stands between him and every generous disposition of his

heart. The Lancastrians are devoted to the slaughter, and the crime of my dead lord, in gallantly supporting to his latest gasp the cause of his lawful sovereign, can only be expiated by the beggary of his widow and his orphans."

"Would that the gallant King," said Adelaide, "could but once behold that fair face wet with tears, and know that a single word from his lips would suffice to dry them, methinks that the forfeited estates of your husband would then be soon restored to you."

"And in truth, gentle Adelaide,” said the Lady Gray, " a wild hope that perchance in the course of the chase, which he is to-day following in this neighbourhood, I might come in contact with him, and have an opportunity of falling at his feet and pleading my cause in person, has lured me from Grafton Manor, and kept me wandering by the river-side till the hour of sunset.

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"The dews of evening are descending, Madam, and the chase is over. Let us return, lest we be intruded upon by some of the wild gallants in King Edward's train, who are not very scrupulous in their mode of courtship when they encour

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