Garrick's aptitude to take offence is criously illustrated by the following passage in a letter, in which he declines joining a party of private theatricals, assembled by Lord and Lady Essex, at Cashiobury:"This filthy cold I partly got by exhib ting my person in the gallant Hastings, is the best compliment I could pay to the noble host and hostess, where you are; but indeed my pride was very much mortified when I found the family did not come to their box till in the middle of the third act. It will not be long in my power to pay many such compliments. am, sir, your most obliged humble servant,

I

have been made of him, and that chiefly causes | from America, which I am glad to find cannot Miss Ray disliked Lord Denbigh. Indeed his embarrassment.'" be authentic, as you are unacquainted with it.' a female circumstanced as Miss Ray was, must And then I rather hinted what it was; he soon have considered his jokes as insults; but Lord after retired to his study, and beckoned to me Sandwich could play upon his lordship in reto follow him. I felt quite alarmed. 'Pray,' turn. The elegant Mrs. Hinchcliffe, lady of said he, may I ask where you heard this the bishop, attended one night. with a party. news, for I own I have my fears of its truth?' She had never seen Miss Ray before, and she Oh, no! it cannot be, my lord; I merely heard feelingly remarked afterwards: 'I was really it at Mr. Cadell's, as I came down here. Could hurt to sit directly opposite to her, and mark you take the liberty of asking him whence he her discreet conduct, and yet to find it imgained this information?' Certainly, my lord, proper to notice her. She was so assiduous to without the least difficulty.' I went imme-please, was so very excellent, yet so unassumdiately to Mr. Cadell, who informed me that ing, I was quite charmed with her; yet a Mr. Gibbon had brought the letter to him as seeming cruelty to her took off the pleasure of soon as he had received it. However, I found my evening.' It was Lady Blake who went up a message had been sent to Lord North, whilst to her, and spoke to her in the front of the or. I was absent: and I went the next night to chestra, that Lord Sandwich had disapproved. the House of Lords, where a most violent de- At that time a good anecdote was in circula. bate took place. On the Wednesday, Lord tion. A certain witty lady of quality, at the Sandwich and Lord North resigned. Lord Opera, curtsied to a lady of rather equivocal Sandwich, when dressed, had a dignified ap-character; when another, much more discreet, immediately addressed her: I was surprised to see your ladyship notice that person; you surely cannot exactly know all about her.' Not I,' said the lady of quality, carelessly; perhaps you do, madam; is it catching?' No man, to speak seriously, was more careful than Lord Sandwich not to trespass on public de. corum."

"D. GARRICK. "The case was this: Lord and Lady Essex, I believe, once requested to have the play of Jane Shore, and Garrick very obligingly acted Lord Hastings on purpose, though then about leaving the stage. Lord and Lady Essex, Ipearance; but to see him in the street, he had must say rather incautiously, asked a large an awkward, careless gait. Two gentlemen obparty to dine and go with them to the theatre: serving him when at Leicester, one of them whether they waited for the company, or the remarked, I think it is Lord Sandwich comcompany for the dinner, I know not; but they ing;' the other replied, that he thought he did not reach Drury Lane till Garrick had was mistaken. Nay,' says the gentleman, nearly played his part; the character of Has- I am sure it is Lord Sandwich; for, if you tings terminating with the fourth act. I did observe, he is walking down both sides of the all in my power to effect a reconciliation, but street at once.' But Lord Sandwich gave a too late for that visit." better anecdote of himself: When I was at Paris I had a dancing-master; the man was very civil, and on taking leave of him I offered him any service in London. Then,' said the man, bowing, I should take it as a particular favour if your lordship would never tell any one of whom you learned to dance."-Hurd once said to me, There is a line in the Heroic Epistle that I do not at all comprehend the meaning of; but you can perhaps acquaint me. It alludes to Lord Sandwich, I suppose; but one word, shambles, I cannot guess at:

6

Sir Jemmy Twitcher shambles-stop, stop thief."

"I became intimate with Dr. Hawkesworth at Lord Sandwich's table at the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich." Stretching out his strong where I constantly met him about the time of legs and arms, whilst playing at skittles, Lord his publishing Cook's Voyages. After this pubSandwich would exult amazingly, if by chance lication, my friend Johnny Ludlam, (who did he was able to knock down all nine. His lordnot like Lord Sandwich) and who was exceed. ship had a way of what Mr. Bates and I termed ingly sarcastical, rallied me in company, on the badgering, which was not quite pleasant to all; improvement made in Hawkesworth's prinI have seen even his friend Lord Denbigh exciples by attending at that table, and how well cessively annoyed. As for ourselves, we always he had suited his opinions to those of the comfought again; for example, in a large company. I replied with truth, that there was pany: now here is Cradock; he makes the no public table in London, where any opinions, strangest assertion that you can possibly think either indecent or irreligious, could be so little of: he says, if a man wears a wig, he ought circulated. Lord Sandwich rarely conversed; to be punctual; but punctuality ought to be as soon as dinner was done, the catches and dispensed with, if he wears his own hair.' That, sir,' said I, alludes to his lordship's glee book were brought. After coffee there My lord, my assertion is, that, if your lord-shambling gait.'-I did not know his lord- were cards sometimes in winter; but in the ship has walked out, you have only to change ship in early life; but this I can attest, and country, Lord Sandwich considered all as lost your scratch for your full-dressed wig; but if call any contemporary to ratify, who might time that was not given up to some manual I am to dine out, I must sometimes wait half have been present, that we never heard an exercise for the benefit of his health; however, an hour for my hair-dresser.' 'Oh! very well; oath, or the least profligate conversation at his at Leicester I kept all secret from Lord Sandthen the hair-dresser is to be the regulator of lordship's table in our lives. Miss Ray's be- wich, and, as Ludlam was musical, I introyour time.' Lord S. honoured me with visits haviour was particularly circumspect. Dr. duced him whenever it was in my power. for a few days at different times in Leicester-Green, Bishop of Lincoln, always said, 'I Dr. Hawkesworth was a most agreeable comshire. The dinner hour was fixed in London, never knew so cautious a man as Lord Sand-panion; but he became careless and luxurious; and some of my company were not a little sur-wich.' The bishop came too soon once to an hurt his constitution by high living, and was prised to find his lordship holding his watch up oratorio; we went to receive him in the dining- consequently very unhappy. His excellent and to my face, and exclaiming, as he came in room, but he said, No; the drawing-room is intelligent wife was always discreet; and had There, Cradock, you see I am within three full of company, and I will go up and take tea the management of his great work, the Voyages, minutes of my time.' Lord Sandwich was a there. Lord Sandwich was embarrassed, as been left entirely with her, nothing either imsteady friend; never kept any one in unneces- he had previously objected to Lady Blake moral or offensive would ever have appeared sary suspense; was exceedingly clear in his speaking to Miss Ray between the acts; and before the public. I never knew till lately answers to all letters, mostly written with his as the bishop would go up, a consequence en-how much merit in former publications was own hand; and I once recollect his receiving sued just as I expected. Some severe verses due to her. She was an unassuming woman, one day seventy when at Leicester. Few could were sent, which Mr. Bates intercepted. [As have preserved such temper during his event- Mr. Cradock possessed a copy, perhaps it may, ful and vexatious administration; for he then at this distance of time, be allowable to print was the most assiduous and active of all the the verses.-) -ED.] ministers. Let me give an anecdote of the last days of his remaining in power. On the Monday morning, in passion week, I went to breakfast at the Admiralty, when, in his usual cheerful manner, he said: Well, Cradock, you are a great reader of newspapers; what account can you give us of our misdemeanours.' 'My lord, I was up late last night, and have seen So then, seriously, you know nonothing.' thing about us.' Nothing, but what you would know first, if the account was true.' Lord Sandwich said, hastily, 'What is it, sir I mean the account said to be received

When lords turn musicians to gather a throng,
And keep pretty misses to sing them a song;
When nobles, and bishops, and squires, are so silly,
To attend at the levee of Miss Ray and Billy:
When to shew most respect for the lord of the place is,
By listening to fiddlers, and praising his mistress;
If this be the case, and you do not dissemble,
Say, what is the cause that so many assemble?
The cause, do you ask? to be sure it is-Handel.
His music so sweet is, when skilfully play'd,
And that not by mere spring-jacks that make it a trade:
There's a lord beats a drum, not yet by it disgraced,
Since a bishop, perchance, by Giardini is placed.
So the high and the low are all jumbled together,
In order that Jephtha may go off the better;
And to be of that party, how happy their fates,
When for wit and for learning they've Cradock and

Bates,'

of very superior talent. The doctor never

sinned' but against himself. He was quite finical in his dress, by which he sometimes rendered himself subject to ridicule, though a favourite with all. When Lord Sandwich was about to embark at Portsmouth, with Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Solander, and a very large party of friends, the doctor was invited to accompany them, and was not a little gratified by the compliment that was paid him: but when his lordship mentioned something of a cork-wig, the A cork-wig, doctor was all astonishment. my lord, I never heard of such a thing.' 'Oh, yes,' says Lord Sandwich, always on these little water excursions we put on our cork-wigs, and I have ordered one to be prepared for you.' The doctor paused, looked

very grave, and at last remoliemed at mos ment that would abwatne reer in rim However, finding that me excuse vitit de sccepted, he at last whenË v the punishmen. against him, was rescued to reize. When I messi a is szive mi dicat on board, and at leisure, be mieć i zem the There was something strange mentimet MI-, Vhat renders the zucncidence ves mere sinking, tables upon them. If posshit. The Exprimati Song the osch ở Waient, la 1 a Indians had lately been in Enrant le LT IN TOKEL The Nishing insid determined to write a inécrous react a de sa has the time that he himsel vecaine, an racter of one of them. This red or be me pleca: mirenting so je severn, PELS A witty, and was most higher reishet sht er- sudden dava of hobi appeared, and be uscat plimented by Lord Sandwich and al the pay, as means in the miss rated as I returned a manuscript nyt if at Mr. Bus Glue, 23 my SE TELLY ČASA, a na? ZRÓPAI, III TACLYN INN for it was never prized, and I have never sem servals bestlased; when the bishop mure the the the scary proude suches wer any part of it since. I recoder something stringy repeated by question. The and set as de succone surt a way the that Lord Sandwich qornet as hardly may, in reuna. · As his krostly so pressed it, he cradle cxcMOVE A NEL y a mi vidh, the teristic. They had endemicted to pre the most own he wa' 'Iteeraa' sad the poet a Heier, Does he miss we thaught Esquimanx some idea of feminine bentry, by tang; and soon after died. After his death. Thomss More soi Haza! Sumy me shewing him a gallery of English bearities, and fun wrote his extund, which was word was the rency; they see me ty a the wished to know which he preferred. He now as a pear in txoster cathedral. A same procession så murerme viach the ievaber bishop, Dr. Taurion, once said to me play sport of the poem) the estimate day afterwards, Could your friend and nothing in questive wras her name Mace and nov letter to say, in boner of his former so. Man Can 4 de Francis, then-the prvodecie than that he died in the belief of what he Francis Moore ! Bam! There mist de in. conceived to be Christianity ?" I gave a cer stances among the Johnsons and Thmans of Hurd's epitaph, soon after it was per up, the Smiths and the Browns onto which family to some learned dignitaries: they thought it does the wither of Hessey belong? H saply sabiguous; and one could scarcely, light lensa que as we have à che to the becere it was exacly opted.” mystery-it must be so... Does the reader give

no beauty in any of them; but at Portsmouth, near the Sally-port, he suddenly caled then, all out from dinner to see a perfect specimen It was the Sun painted in fül quæduer, and of great magnitude, on a sim-pod. The whole of what I read appeared to me to possess much

merit."

To be continued]

1

Too long, however, have we lingered over the fascination of this enigms: come, then, good reader, away with us.

Bruce (the traveller)" was a large ma and in an evening rather quendidly dressed; he had a most extraordinary complains, which ' could not be well accounted for: "when he atThe world, we dev ne à almer so tempted to speak, his whole stomach suddenly Henley: a Poem. Pp. 77. Henley-on-Thames, quainted, through our columns, with the exist. seemed to heave like an organ-belows. He 1827. Hickman and Stapledon; London, ence of two Mr. Richanisus reiving ro did not wish to make any secret about in, bar, Simpkin and Marshall. spectively in the confounding and confounded spoke of it as having originated in Abyssinia. The Hendey Guide,* Pp. 30. 1826. Same ¦ initials of D. 1.* and G. F. !~ Doubtless, then, but that it since remained (under various ad- Publishers. the author of Honey, a Pem, with whose vice) much the same in every climate. How. HERE is a descriptive poem, and here is a initials we are unfortunately not acquainted, is ever, one evening, when he appeared rather guide-book, of one of the prettiest little towns Mr. Richardson, Na 3! for it is evident at agitated, it lasted much longer than usual, in England, which, though published only five least that the calling, if not the profession, of and was so violent that it alarmed the com- and thirty miles from its busy metropolis, have all these gentlemen is—“ poesy divine !" pany." been longer in reaching our hands than deBishop Hurd." Though no person could spatches from China, letters from the North be more obsequious to his friend and patron. Pole, or communications from the centre of Warburton, than Hurd, yet they were totally Africa. dissimilar in disposition; the one cold, cauSeveral of our readers can, without doubt, tious, and refined; the other, warm, daring, call to mind that beautiful valley on the Oxford and unguarded. Hurd weighed every word road in which the quiet village (it can scarcely before he spoke or wrote; and Johnson once be called town) of Henley is situated its noble aid, Sir, he's a word-picker;' and another bridge, and the full and smooth-flowing Thames, replied, Yes, Dr. Johnson, he always appears with the tall poplars which stand upon its brink. to me to be so very precise, that I term him an Long before beholding these volumes we were ald maid in breeches.' Indeed he was always fully satisfied with the great capabilities of the so much upon his guard, that I do not believe place to furnish admirable matériel for a poem that either his friend Lord Mansfield, or even like Wordsworth's Excursion, or prose like Warburton, ever talked freely or intimately some of Professor Wilson's lake descriptions with him. Trifles from others gave offence: and we absolutely hungered after some young be once strongly reproved me from seeing poet, who, full of fine feeling and rich fancy. Tristram Shandy in my classical library, and should rise and sing the rural charms of the arged its instant removal. However, this gave place. How then are we delighted at the comfe to a severe remark in another quarter. pletion of our wishes! and how were we He was not always so violent against Sterne; charmed at receiving a graceful volume, neatly Warburton corresponded with him, and no- done up in pea-green paper, on which we read, thing was urged against Tristram, till the Henley-a Poem.

shop and Sterne quarrelled, and then Sterne, The preface was devoured in a second, and
print, threatened to make the author of the then we mused thereon; for the young poet,
Dicine Legation the private tutor of his rising although he tells us that he shelters himself
pl, master Shandy. I have mentioned that" beneath the wing of Anonymy," enigmati-
Hard and Warburton were totally dissimilar. cally enabled us at least to guess his name.
Hard could read none but the best things. This interesting manner of appearing incognito
Warburton,
on the contrary, when tired with increased our relish for the book, as well as
troversy, would send to the circulating li- sharpened our ordinary sagacity to discover to
raries for baskets-full of all the trash of town, whom we were indebted for the treat; but as
d the bishop would laugh by the hour at all Christmas conundrums are not out of place
the absurdities he glanced at. The learned until after Twelfth Night (on which we write
rld could never guess from whence the this), we will quote it pro bono publico.

op obtained so many low anecdotes; for
conversation, as well as some of his letters, which we intend, as opportunity serves, to guide the
We have sundry local Guide-books on our table, to
Vere at times complete comedy. Another in general public. Ed.

;

Bid your positions roll the whirling wheel
Where Oxford, Blacks, and Berks, their bounds reveal,
For there is Henley; if the heart de richt,
Its loveliness will yield unmix delight."
And so, we feel confident, will thy numbers,
sweet poet, of mind congenial with thy subject,

es On every hand, above, below, behind,

A picture fair of plenty thou mayst find." Even so the beauties of thy verse plenty enough, we promise, how then shall we se lect? Over descriptions which in most hands

are

---" tedious, flat, and dry,

And introduced, the Lord knows why,"

Mr. Richardson holds strong mastery. We will back the following against the Henley Guide itself for accuracy, a quality which many other poets have most unphilosophically neg

lected.

Some to the right the sloping height ascend.
Or trace the paths which near the stream extend t
View the sweet prospect which Park Place unveils,
And bound their ramble by the Wargrave valest
The eye next rests upon a joyous crew,
Who, on the left, their favourite path pursue,
And passing Fawley's fair and ancient halls,
Reach Medmenham's old and once the walls."
Right and left again--and new style of bridge

building.

"Behold the stately bridge, which rears its side
In gentle sloping o'er the limpid tide,

And Berks connecting with her sister shires,
Forms the approach from London's glittering spires.
The sculptor's art this fabric fair may boast,
And Damer's light and classic chisel most:

In graceful curve the arches low incline,
And kindred arches on the stream design.
Quare-Diamond Letter-press-Printer's Devil,
What two posing words for cockney alliteration, Vare
grave Wales Ext.

21st-second and third, first and fourth, in conjunction respectively.

earth.

7th day, 13 hrs. 30 min.-Saturn in opposition. 15th day, 21 hrs.-this planet will pass 24 min. to the south of Geminorum, a star of the third magnitude, also a double star. 18th day, 19 hrs.-Uranus in conjunction with the sun.

LITERARY AND LEARNED.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

ing to impose upon mankind, "to the great | duates of Oxford and Cambridge before those hurt, damage, and destruction of many of the of Edinburgh or Glasgow, it is only necessary With powerful glasses, the satellites, with king's liege people." For in matters that are to advert to the different constitution of these their shadows, may be traced on the disc of not generally understood, and especially by universities; for surely so long as three or four Jupiter; in some positions of the earth rela- persons smarting under pain or languishing years' attendance upon the professors of the tive to this planet, the shadow will be observed with sickness, bold assertions and shameless Scotch universities continues to be esteemed a to follow the satellite, and in others, the satel- promises will often be heard with a favour they sufficient qualification for a doctor's degree, lite will follow the shadow, though not so dis- little deserve. And if the attention of the Col- such graduates ought not to be placed upon an tinctly visible near the central part as towards lege has from time to time been called to other equality with those who, having been regu. the edges of the disc. Sometimes the satellites matters connected with their profession, still larly disciplined in the schools of sound learn. are traced by their brightness being greater the prevention of this crying evil is and always ing and philosophical inquiry, are sent to enthan that of their primary, in other instances has been the great end and aim of the College graft upon this stock the principles of medical by their inferiority of brilliancy; this variation of Physicians; and its most virulent adversa- knowledge, and are not created doctors of has been supposed to arise from large portions ries may be challenged to shew that it has not physic till after ten or eleven years. The ge of their surfaces being covered with dark spots, faithfully discharged its trust. It is true that neral advancement of science, the simplifica which, by rotation, are alternately turned to- the College has been hedged round by certain tion of art, and the progressive alteration which wards our earth. The transit of the shadow privileges, but by no extravagant ones; none has taken place in the sentiments and habits, of a satellite on Jupiter presents an exact re. that were not believed to be essential to its ex- the information and intercourse of mankind, presentation of our moon's shadow moving over istence, or conducive to the objects of its insti- in the course of three busy centuries, has made the earth during a solar eclipse; for when the tution and it is with the same design, and it necessary, from time to time, to modify the shadow enters on, and retreats from, the disc, with that only, that the laws for its internal regulations of the College of Physicians; and it is of an oval form; and when in direct or regulation have been subsequently adopted. this has been done with every attention to central conjunction, the shadow is perfectly But it is here that certain persons feel them- those interests of the republic of which the circular. An attempt has been made to deter-selves aggrieved; for, say they, the conditions College is the legal guardian. When ignorant mine the magnitudes of these secondary bodies required for admission into the College exclude and impudent pretenders would invade the proby comparing their discs with that of their pri- us. What! exclude surgeons who have prac- vince of medicine, and, substituting arrogance mary: from various observations it was com- tised all the way to India and back again? in the place of science, would overleap the bar. puted, that (with the exception of the third, exclude apothecaries who have gained the con- riers and fences of a learned profession, the which is larger than the others,) the moons of fidence of the town? Exclude them from what? College have with good reason repelled them; Jupiter are about half the diameter of the Not from practising surgery, which they have and when it has been necessary to appeal to the studied; not from practising pharmacy, to which laws of their country for support, they have they have been apprenticed; nay, not from found in the laws a ready acknowledgment of practising physic, if they be properly qualified: their authority, and a confirmation of those for if a person come before the College with privileges which they were acknowledged not that presumption of professional attainments to have abused. which is afforded by a doctor's degree, con- It is not long since all order and subordina ferred on him after two years' study of medi- tion had well nigh been destroyed among men, cine in any university whatever, and is found and then indeed the College of Physicians, in upon examination to be conversant with the common with all other corporate bodies, had structure of the human frame, with the symp-reason to be more than usually jealous of their ["Who shall decide when doctors disagree?" was said, toms of diseases and their remedies, he is never in another language, some time before there was any refused a license to practise. And if the ColPope; and we are so little dogmatical, that were it only lege be indeed designed to provide that no ima dispute between Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, we "Two names that always cheat and always please”---should neither attempt to dictate, or interfere. But proper, that is, no ignorant and dangerous pre- which, like an inundation, threatened to level the contest now carried on, and the question at issue tender be obtruded upon the public, surely it is all distinctions, and to undermine the very between the College of Physicians and their opponents, is one which involves the interests of science, and the not too much to expect something more than foundations of society. But in a season when public interests so deeply, it almost follows of course the mere professions of soi-disant doctors. But judgment and reason are permitted to resume that our Gazette should be brought into some share of still some, it may be, very well qualified to ex- their just influence, the cause of the College of the discussion, as Great Powers (to speak it pleasantly) can never be long neutral when there is war any where. ercise their profession, are excluded from be- Physicians will always be identified with the We can yet, however, safely say, that we are non-com- coming Fellows, unless they shall have gone canse of the public. It will be felt that the batants; and that we insert the ensuing general defence through the previous steps of a long and ex-community have a real and important interest of the College of Physicians, because it is written by an ornament both to literature and his profession (from pensive education, and have graduated in one of in maintaining a body of men, to whom, as a the highest rank in which he has retired in honoured our own universities. "Ay, there's the rub ;" body, they may confidently defer; who may be years), and because, leaning, as we do strongly, to the cause of talent in its native efforts, we like at the same for it must be confessed that all exclusion is competent to superintend the various matters time to give what is due to education and system.] odious. As well might one complain that he which respect the health of the public; to VARIOUS attempts have been made, at different is excluded from practising in the Commons point out the source of popular diseases; to times, to break in upon the privileges of the because he had not graduated at Oxford or check their progress; to sanction their remeCollege of Physicians; and in order to do this Cambridge, or excluded from holy orders on dies; and especially to restrain the ignorant with the greater effect, its objects have been the same grounds. Are, then, things come to and illiterate, who would not scruple to sacri disguised, and its laws misrepresented. It has this pass, that we must forswear all the advan-fice their honour to their emolument, and for been attacked as if it were a commercial mono- tages of a liberal education? Or shall the this end would defraud the credulous at once of poly, which was jealously maintained for the statesman and the churchman acknowledge his money and of his health. private emolument of its members; and the that these studies and this intercourse of so- If, then, it be a matter of public concern that same cry of" free trade," and "no charter," ciety enlarge their minds, rectify their judg-medicine should hold its rank among liberal which has been so plausible and so popular ments, remove their prejudices, teach them to professions; if persons that have studied it be upon other occasions, has most unjustly been think and to act with superior ability; and more likely to understand it than those who raised against the College of Physicians. But shall they not teach the same to physicians ? have not; if science and learning have any adlet not gentlemen of understanding be imposed Or shall a right estimate of human nature be vantage over rude nature; if they really do, as upon by clamour, or imagine that impudent deemed of no value to them alone, whose life is they profess to do, remove the prejudices and assertions, because they may not have been an- in so peculiar a manner dedicated to its service? clear the understandings of men, and enable swered, are therefore unanswerable. The Col- But in truth it is owing to this very circum-them to judge and to act with readiness and prolege of Physicians was originally established, stance that the English physicians have ob-priety upon subjects removed from common oband is still upheld, for no private purposes tained a distinction above those of every other servation; if all this be not mere pretence,whatever. The advantages its members derive country in Europe; and if they enjoy a place in then assuredly in an enlightened age, and in a from it are none, unless it be that considera- society among gentlemen of learning and accom-country inferior to no other in wisdom and tion which attaches to every learned com- plishments, the praise of it is with those whose good sense, the profession of physic will not be munity. The advantages are all on the side education and manners have raised physie from suffered to sink into disrepute; and the Colof the public, who thence obtain their only se-a trade to a liberal profession. But in order to lege of Physicians, which is, as it were, the curity against the dangerous effects of ignorant shew that the College is actuated by no impro-heart and life-spring of the whole body, upon or desiguing men, who have never been want. per motives in giving a preference to the gra- which the respectability and well-being of the

rights, in opposition to those plausible and deceitful doctrines of liberty and equality

Yes Pleasure's gale has passed
Swiftly around us, fostering gentle flowers,
That bloom not through the chilly winter hours
Beneath Affliction's blast.

But oh! this Earth has not
Delights to lure us 'midst its bowers to stay;
Her loveliest fruits spring up to fade away,
Her joys to be forgot.

O'er Time's long pathway spread,
The snares of guilt our careless steps await;
Affections cold, which beam'd so warm of late,

And sweet hopes withered.

Yet when along our path
Temptation's shafts are pour'd, or darkest woes,
List we to Reason's voice-'tis Heaven bestows

Sorrows, but not in wrath.

From them, from them we learn
How frail, how nothingless are earthly joys;
And to high regions, where no worm destroys,
U. L.

Our noblest hopes to turn.
WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1827.
THOSE midnight bells, those midnight bells,
In other hearts may wake a tone
Responsive to their merry change;

But mine is all too lone.
They tell, they tell to him whom hope

With promise cheers, the day draws nigh:
When hope no longer leads us on,

Who cares that years should fly? To me they tell of bygone times

Of joyous hours and friendships dear:
Since these are fled beyond recall,

Why mind me such things were?
They tell, they tell a mournful tale :
The sands of life, how fast they run !
Another year of good resolves

Is past how little done!
Middle Temple.

A SCOTCH SANG FOR THE SEASON.
"A merry Christmas and a happy New Year!"
The Compliments of the Season.
O HERE'S to the fair and the dear!
And here's to the far and the near!

While a cordial deep cup to them a' we fill up,
We'll pledge them a happy New Year!
All hail to the Year at its birth!

Adieu to the auld on its bier!

In this may a' mourning be changed into
mirth-

A blithe and a happy New Year!
And here's to the bonniest lass!

Wha that is there's nae ane need spier;
We a' ken fu' brawlie wha's best worth the
glass,

And our wishes a happy New Year!
And here's to the friends that are met,

To the absent we wish had been here;
And here's to the foe can forgie and forget-
A blithe and a happy New Year!
And they wha the mools are amang,

To their manes and their mem'ries a tear!

Wha hae shared o' our cup, and hae joined in

COVENT GARDEN.

ADELPHI THEATRE.

working man a' the week, but Sabbath; and | duet with Liston was irresistible, and extorted though I like the kirk and our minister weel, that compliment even from the impatient and WE hasten to redeem our promise to the unless ye ca' the head off me, I canna keep ma uncomfortable gods. What crime has Great minors, of which the first in rank and in een open." "Weel then, John, if ye will allow Britain committed, that it is the only empire merit is the Theatre Naval, Adelphi. The enSatan to exercise his power over you in this in Europe where the theatres are cursed with tertainment provided for the Christmas holydovering dwamming way in the very kirk uproarious galleries ?-where any half-dozen day-makers at this snug little temple of itsell, what gars you sit in the front laft, where blackguards, who can muster up twelve half- laughter, is entitled Harlequin and the White a' body amaist sees you? Can you no tak a pence each, are permitted to annoy and insult Mouse, or the Frog in an Opera Hat; and in back seat, and there your sin will be less seen some thousand respectable persons, who, from all the true points of pantomime far surpasses and heard." "Tak a back seat?" said John; the local situation of the offenders, have no its rivals, both great and little, metropolitan na, na, I'll never quat my cozie corner; possible means of quelling the nuisance them- and transaquatical. The tricks have much my great-grandfather, my grandfather, and selves, and are unprotected by the proper au- whim and novelty; the pantomimic company my father, a' sat there, and there sit will thorities. is active and entertaining (Paulo is, perhaps, John, come o't what will!" The elders, with the best clown now on the stage); the scenery, heavy hearts, returned to the minister, and machinery, and dresses, beautiful and ingereported the stubborn, truculent, and unchrist- Love in a Village, or at least what is now nious, beyond what we could have imagined ian-like behaviour of the incorrigibly drowsy called so, was performed here yesterday week, the space and resources of the theatre would wabster. "Let him alone," replied the worthy for the purpose of introducing a Mr. Wood, admit. "The Palace of the Green Swamp,' man; "I think the best way to cure him pupil of Mr. Phillips, to a metropolitan au- "Madgalore Marsh," "The Interior of of his sinful malady, is to affront him he is dience, in the character of Hawthorn. His Mouse's Hall," and "Farrier's Shop and a poor, but proud creature; I'll rebuke him voice is a barritone, and he possesses the rare distant Country," all by Tomkins, are well before the whole congregation." Next Sab-quality of distinct articulation, the which conceived and executed. "The Hammersmith bath forenoon, the text was hardly given out, novelty, added to some taste, produced a very Suspension Bridge," by Pitt, is creditable to when, as usual, down sinks John, and begins pleasing effect, particularly in the beautiful so young an artist; but his "Temple of the to serenade his neighbours with, if possible, song, My Dolly is the fairest thing." His Glow-worms" is a misnomer, and we think a more than his accustomed berrs. "Sit up, manners are unaffected, and his action natural. good idea has been lost. It is gay enough as John Thomson!" cried the minister, with a He sung the songs of the opera, and those only; a scene, but it is not a temple of glow-worms. loud and ear-splitting voice. "I'm no sleep- and on the whole, we rather like him. Where The great charm of the pantomime, however, ing, sir," quoth John. "O John, John, can there is modesty there is generally talent; and to us, is the opening, cleverly arranged by "Ou ay, sir; we have no doubt Mr. Wood will improve Mr. Buckstone, from the fine old ballad of the vastly upon acquaintance. Mr. Sapio favoured Frog in the Opera Hat, one of the most moral us with an Irish melody to the words of a song and affecting pieces of lyrical poetry in the from Oscar and Malvina; and Miss Hughes language. tried "Lo here the gentle lark!" which had

you tell what I said last ?"
ye said, Sit up, John Thamson !"

SIGHTS OF LONDON.

66

no business there.

a

Had it appeared originally in a ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM.-Among the pleascollection of Metrical Romances, or a volume ing and instructive sights which at present of the Reliques of Ancient Poetry, instead of court the visits of the young holiday inhabitOn Tuesday evening the Marriage of Figaro being ushered into the world by a comic singer ants of the metropolis, we ought to mention to was repeated; and Madame Sala achieved her at Astley's, it would not have been left to our them the Zoological Museum, in the Egyptian second appearance in the Countess. We made humble pen to pay this tardy tribute to its Hall. Here is an extensive and admirable col-point of attending, feeling convinced, from the merits. We cannot resist the temptation to lection of birds, animals, insects, reptiles, insertion of a letter from Madame Vestris in gratify our readers by a slight "retrospective shells, &c. &c. in every branch of natural his- the papers of Monday and Tuesday, that some- review" of this extraordinary production, out tory. From contemplating these, much useful thing comical would occur. Her letter was a of place, as we acknowledge such a notice may knowledge is to be acquired in a very short sensible one; at least we are bound to say so, seem in the theatrical portion of our Gazette; time; and correct ideas are fixed on the mind, as it repeated the very arguments we had urged but from its first publication to the present moin a way superior to what is done by mere pic-in her favour a fortnight ago; but the time ment it has been identified with the drama of tures or descriptions. There are, besides, a chosen for its appearance we do not think our country, to which, through the ingenuity of number of curiosities from all quarters of the equally judicious, as it was certain to create Mr. Buckstone, it is likely to become as great globe; and an assemblage of Chinese manua disturbance. Accordingly, when the Coun an ornament as it has ever been, in our opinion, factures (for sale), which complete a museum tess desired Susannah to sing, instead of to its literature. How simply grand is the of great variety and interest. the Page, Susannah "begged to be ex- commencement! cused;" and immediately the cry of " Song ! "A frog he would a wooing go." song!" "I've been roaming,' "&c. arose from some of those worthy persons As Dryden says of the Æneid." Our author apples;" to whom the canse is nothing-the clangor of a trumpet:" thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten seems to sound a charge, and begins like the

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE.

THIS theatre was advertised to open to-night,

and we believe all was prepared for the occasion; but in consequence of Mr. Laurent not having returned from Paris, the Lord Chamberlain sent his commands on Thursday to forbid the opening. On the other hand, the proprietors are in a dilemma; for they looked for their tenant, and his deposit of 4000l. which was, according to agreement, to have been deposited by the 1st of January; and are, in their turn, disappointed by his nonappearance. The concern is apparently in great

confusion.

DRURY LANE.

"who

row every thing. Bless their "sweet voices."
The demand, however, was not complied with,
and the opera proceeded; but scarcely had the
curtain fallen on the Marriage of Figaro, when
the hubbub recommenced Heaven knows

"Arma virumque cano, Trojæ qui primus ab oris," &c.

Like Virgil, he dashes at once into the subject,
and introduces you to his hero

"A frog he would a wooing go-
Heigho, says Rowley,

Whether his mother would let him or no,

With a Rowley, powley, gammon and spinnage,
Heigho, says Anthony Rowley."

wherefore; and the interlude of the Scape Goat was not permitted to succeed it till Mr. Faucett came forward, still in his gardener's How much is here told in two or three lines! dress, and quietly asked what the ladies and The birth, parentage, life, character, and begentlemen wanted? "The song was not in haviour, of the Frog, are instantly before you. the opera-it was not announced in the bill; Volumes could not more clearly develop his nevertheless, if it was their pleasure, of course previous history. The fact is established, that it should be sung," &c. &c.; and sure enough he had a mother (" an ugly old toad," accordOn Monday night Mr. Mathews made his first "I've been roaming" was sung, and so ended ing to the bill)a prudent parent, who foresaw appearance this season, in the character of Sir the farce of Susannah and the Elders." We the misery likely to accrue from an unequal Fretful Plagiary and Buskin. We were had nearly forgotten to say, that Mad. Sala's marriage, and vainly exerted her eloquence happy to see a well-filled house, the conse-performance displayed more self possession, and and her authority to avert the impending quence, beyond a doubt, of the junction of consequently more ability. The Letter Duet danger. talent. The public seemed gratified by again was sweetly sung and loudly encored.† beholding their two favourites together; and both pieces went off with as much effect as the intolerable noise of the galleries would permit. The song of Short Stages, introduced by Mathews, partly from the latter circumstance perhaps, passed off without an encore; but his

"Si quam voles aptè nubere, nube pari," saith Ovid; and so, doubtlessly, in her own the audience. can a poor maiden do?" but no notice was taken of it by language, said the anxious old lady. But her

Madame Vestris omitted, also, the song of "What

Since our exposé of the bribery and corruption amused by the appearance of some letters in the going forward in the musical world, we have been Morning Post, whose writers seem suddenly to have

made a similar discovery, and were, of course, perfectly the desired explosion takes place, we care very little how unconscious that we had noticed it. Provided, however, many torches are applied to the train.