picture particularly amused me, as the best | cipally a collection of little poems, scattered France. Literature and the arts are not forspecimen of the Fuseli school I ever saw. It through various periodicals, the present volume gotten by the schemers: one company prorepresents the Jewish council debating upon claims the praise we have ever given to Mrs. mises to bring out the works of authors who the proposed seizure of our Saviour. They are Cornwell Baron Wilson's productions of much cannot find either printer or publisher: and a grave and venerable party, but each has, poetical taste, and kindly and cultivated feel- another to bring forward the projects of inperched either on his head or shoulders, a devil, ings. ventors, and introduce all new foreign inven who is whispering his wicked thoughts. All Tales and Sketches. By Jacob Ruddiman, M.A. tions into France. All these projects, however, shall. Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Arms and these imps, however, are painted with the most I have been still-born. laughably roguish snouts and eyes, and the of Mareschal College, Aberdeen. Edinburgh, France is at the present moment governed oddest claws and tails imaginable; while the J. Anderson; London, Simpkin and Mar- by the edicts of Louis XIV., the laws of the elders, perfectly unconscious of their strange SKETCHES like those from the Portfolio of Revolution, the decrees of the Empire, and the associates, are very serious, communing with charter of Louis XVIII. The charter, the each other. The church and chapels have an Amateur, laid in picturesque scenes, often nothing remarkable, except one very highly es- that is striking: still there is quite enough it does not embrace the thousandth part of a graceful, with much that is pretty, but little anterior laws which are contrary to it; but as mere skeleton of a constitution, abrogated all teemed show, where Joseph and Mary, in gor- in these pages to pass a summer morning's complete system of legislation, wherever the geous apparel, are kneeling near a wilderness of idlesse pleasantly. gold tinsel wire; while around them are a concharter does not apply a remedy, the tribunal fused variety of little images, not a twentieth choose one, the most consonant to the principles part of their size. Amongst the multitude is they wish to adopt, from Louis XIV. XV. XVI. one female Chinese figure, with the usual dead the Revolution, or Buonaparte; and as there white face and long eyes, and another Chinese are about 3000 judges in France, it may easily woman bearing a child made of soap-stone. THIS Part completes the second volume. We be conceived what a vast field this practice opens The most grotesque, however, is a little drunken are happy to say that the work is proceeding for contradictory decisions! No branch of indusDutch farmer, in leathern breeches and a red with unimpaired excellence. One of the most try has felt this more than the bookselling busiwaistcoat, who is placed very properly in the beautiful plates is that of "The Pikeman's ness. Wherever the government wishes to punish foreground, to prevent the scandal his company Armour." "In the time of Charles I.," Dr. a not over-loyal bookseller, it finds a ready means would throw on the other idols. One eye is Meyrick observes, "great reliance was placed in the dusty tomes of preceding legislations. open, and its fellow is closed, with an air of on the pikeman, whose formidable weapon was We have seen one man condemned on an edict slyness and roguery which gives a most comical eighteen feet in length; for Ward, in his of Louis XIV. in 1723; another on the constipression to his tipsy face. This is, perhaps, Animadversions of Warre,' lib. ii. p. 90, edit. tution of 1791; and others, again—and those the first Dutch saint which has ever been wor-1639, says, so long as the pikes stand firme, shiped in Mexico." although the shot should be routed, yet it can- ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. At Zacatecas "the churches are large and translate." SIGHTS OF BOOKS. T. and G. Underwood. by far the most numerous on the paternal decrees of the empire. No literary property was safe under these conflicting doctrines; and a bookseller in prosperity to-day, found himself ruined on the morrow, from being interdicted the exercise of his trade. Political vengeance against a deceased printer has been carried so far as to refuse permission to the and on the hardship of the case being urged, widow to carry on the business of her husband; the king's attorney defended the measure by the strange argument, that a surgeon, a physician, or notary dying, the widow could not exercise the profession of the husband! This frightful anomaly we are happy to find of the interior, admits the incongruity of the is about to cease. M. Martignac, the minister present legislation on the subject of literature, and has promised to propose a law to embody a whole code of doctrine. We stated in a recent letter, that foreigners were not allowed to be arbitrators. A new decision of the tribunal permits them to execute the task when both parties are agreed; but either can object to the admission of a foreigner, and his objection is held legal. Paris, April 12. The mania of joint stock companies, so ruinThe Gentleman Cit: Translation of Molière's ous in England, seems to gain ground in France. SYSTEMS are now à-la-mode; at least, there Bourgeois Gentilhomme. London, 1828. One man, who could not raise money to pay is a concurrence among wise heads to cure the printing of a prospectus, announced himself what seem incurable-the evils of society. A CHEAP Copy, and a rather literal translation as founder of a company for the cultivation of A very clever, well-written volume, exposing Mouere's comedy. The difficulty of render- lands and building towns in Kentucky: the the leading principles of Mr. Owen's system, ing one language by another is curiously il- capital was to be £500,000, of which he was to has lately been put forth by a French barrister lustrated by the very title of this play, which be the director. Another proposed a similar (a M. Roy), which is likely to attract the pubis not translateable into English without much establishment at Buenos Ayres, with a capital lic. The plan of mutual co-operation and periphrase and explanation. The Bourgeois of £240,000. A third proposed to bring into community of property has already powerful Gentemme is certainly not The Gentleman cultivation five million acres of the Landes of partisans, who are very active in endeaCat. In the construction of his sentences Bourdeaux, composed of moving sand, from six vouring to form a society having for its throughout, the translator, though he has object the diffusion of those benevolent prinven us the sense of his original, has adhered ciples. In some literary circles they speak also Lo closely to the foreign idiom for elegance of of a work, shortly to be published, proposing style. to embrace a very wide field of social amelioration, the basis of which plan is industrial attraction by groups, the rapid acquisition of riches, and the enjoyment secured to each individual of the fruits of his labours. This work is profound and scientific, and not likely therefore to catch, still less convince, the ignorant of the immense treasure of happiness the au The Cypress Wreath. By Mrs. Cornwell Baron We have really had quite a poetical overflow a to sixty feet deep. A fourth undertook no less * Our Correspondent, in justly reprobating the conduct thor projects for rich, poor, savages, sages, and children. Increase of wealth, however, is the best bait to hold out to man, as gold, and gold alone, is the idol of worship, the secret spring of every action, the regulator of principle, and, I might almost add, of feeling. If, therefore, the author is sufficiently clever to convince his readers that there are personal advantages to be gained, success must attend his efforts to raise mankind above a degraded state of want. His doctrine is, "make men happy, and you make them good." Many celebrated pens are actively employed at this moment. M. St. Beuve has just sent to press "l'Histoire de la Poésie Française de la Seizième Siècle," and that of the "Théâtre Français jusqu'à Racine." This writer is familiar with the ensemble of French literature before Louis either read in the countenance the intention of visit. This double perfidy of the African ARTS AND SCIENCES. ligence. "and FERNANDO Po.-The latest accounts of this new colony continue to give the most satisfactory assurances of its prosperous commencement. More mechanics had gone from Sierra Leone to join Captain Owen; and the natives continued peaceable and friendly. SCIENTIFIC VOYAGE, BY CAPTAIN FOSTER, TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE. the fourteenth, and possesses qualities rarely IT is with great concern we state that there united, being a good poet, a literary critic, is no longer any doubt with respect to the observing a scrupulous adherence to truth, and fate of these enterprising, persevering, but un- THE exertions of government to forward excelling in that finesse of style in which fortunate travellers. They have both been historians are too often deficient. M. Alfred murdered. The Pasha of Tripoli has received objects of science demand the warmest acde Vigny, author of the "Conjuration du Cinq- letters from one of his officers in the interior knowledgments from those interested in its Mars," is also about to publish a roman histo- of Africa, communicating the painful intel- advancement. In noticing the various scienrique, in which the different personages act a tific expeditions which have within the last part in the French expedition to Egypt. M. de ten years been so frequently undertaken by It appears that Major Laing was severely Vigny has often been severely criticised by the wounded by robbers in the territory of Toualt. this country, we have had the honest satisliterary lawgivers. Having, however, recovered, in consequence of faction of commending no less the spirit in Much is said and expected of a work written the kind attention of a marabout, or priest, he which these inquiries originated, than the zeal by M. Scheffer (of Dutch origin), celebrated for at length succeeded in reaching Timbuctoo. and perseverance displayed by the individuals many historical publications, in which l'esprit But he had scarcely arrived, before the Fou-to whom their conduct was intrusted. It is therefore with additional pleasure, as it evinces de parti threw an unfavourable shade over real lahs, that powerful and warlike horde which at talent. He is now on the point of giving to present reigns exclusively over the immense the same encouragement of research in the naval department, under a new and royal head, the public "l'Histoire du Pape Grégoire VII." deserts of central Africa, came, to the numOn dit that it contains views of high importance ber of thirty thousand, and demanded that, that we have to record another voyage, perhaps more purely of a scientific character than any as to the organisation of the powers of the Major Laing should be delivered up to them, of the former. church, such as that pope had conceived and that they might put him to death; The conduct of the voyage to which we partly executed but this production, I pre- thus," as they observed, " prevent Christian sume, can only interest the ecclesiastical part of nations from receiving such information as ficer who accompanied Captain Parry in his allude, is intrusted to Captain Foster, an ofsociety. Many gentlemen called philosophers might enable them, at some future period, to are also mending their pens; whether with the penetrate into, and enslave, the countries of last voyage; but not in his boat excursion tointention of making money or advancing knowAfrica." Before the arrival of the Foulahs, wards the North Pole, having remained with ledge, remains to be discovered;-but, as yet, called Nana-Beira (Princess-Mother), comtwenty-four chiefs, among whom was a female the ship on the coast of Spitzbergen engaged with all the torrents of light in which they in a series of pendulum experiments. These experiments were, we believe, suggested to the say this age abounds, we poor unscientific be- manded simultaneously in Timbuctoo. ings are as much in the dark as ever with of these chiefs, of the name of Othman-Vould. Royal Society by Captain Kater; and, when regard to the subject which most interests us. Quaïd-Aboubekhr, had received Major Laing sufficiently numerous, are expected to lead to Fair promises are, however, held out to us by into his house, on the recommendation of the of the true figure of the earth, and the variamost important results; viz. the determination some reputed wise men, to prove, by the science Sheik Il-Mokhtar, with whom he had taken of analogy and attraction, our links, not only refuge after having escaped the daggers of the tion of the law of gravity at different points with the whole vegetable and animal creation, Hangars. When the Foulahs presented them- of its surface, with other profound matters, but with other worlds; so that the doctrine of selves before Timbuctoo, and demanded Major which, although they have been detailed to us annihilation, which is too much the reigning Laing's head, his host, Othman-Vould-Quaid-will excuse our explaining to them. at considerable length, we hope our readers principle amongst English and French, will be Aboubekhr, contrived his escape at night, es- continuation of the pendulum experiments in The corted by several servants, who were supposed various parts of the globe, near the equator, to be trustworthy. It unfortunately hap-in high southern latitudes, and as near as pened, however, that one of them, of the name possible to the antipodes of London, is, howand this fellow not only delivered Major Laing ever, necessary, before any, or at least satisinto their hands, but gave him the first of the factory, deductions can be formed from those the praises which Denham and Clapperton, stabs under which he fell. Every body knows already made; and this continuation is the main object of Captain Foster's voyage. in their Narrative published two years ago, set aside. One of Rehhal, had been bribed by the Foulahs; various meetings on the subject of framing The Council of the Royal Society have held directions for Captain Foster's proceedings, at which some gentlemen, whose suggestions attended by invitation. Although we have were considered as likely to prove useful, Magnetism here is gaining ground rapidly. A learned man, who has studied it, pretends that no one who has not previously inhabited this globe can be magnetised. This puts me in mind of a German, who, though prfectly in his senses, speaks with all the sang froid imaginable of having already existed twice in this world. He pretends that he last figured at the siege of Troy, and was the friend of bestowed on the sultan Bello, the sovereign of Achilles though an illiterate man, yet, in these very Foulahs who have just assassinated relating the events of the Trojan war, he never Laing, and Clapperton himself. It was a relacommits the slightest error; nor is he angry with tion of the sultan Bello's, Ahhmed-Labbou, those who doubt his memory, or treat him as a who repaired to Timbuctoo, on the arrival of dreamer. The French pretend that Napoleon Major Laing. After having accomplished his stated, that swinging the pendulum in various possessed the faculty of tact to a miraculous immediate object by the assassination of our parts of the globe is the main purpose of this give an instance of this which is remarkable buctoo, and established, as the sole governor of which it is expected will tend to the advancedegree; that he felt ere he touched; and they brave friend, he destroyed the oligarchy in Tim-Voyage, yet it is also intended to carry on various observations and magnetic experiments, enough. A gentleman who now graces some the city, the very Othman-Vould-Quaïd Abouof the beaux circles, and who is decorated with a Poor Clapperton was murdered at Sakatou, bekhr, whom we have already mentioned. red riband, had, as they say, the intention of as- the ordinary residence of the sultan Bello; sassinating the emperor. To effect his purpose, notwithstanding the kind reception which he he put one arm into a sling, and presented with had experienced from the sultan on his first the other a petition to Buonaparte. "Seize that man!" was the answer of Napoleon, who! The inhabitants of Toualt. ment of our geographical knowledge, and the COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. THIS learned body, following the good example of other public institutions, has begun a series of Evening Meetings, at which subjects of interest to science are discussed. At the first, on Monday, Sir H. Halford read a paper on Tic Douloureux. The rooms, in the college, were numerously attended by persons eminent in various professions and literary pursuits. LITERARY AND LEARNED. ROYAL SOCIETY. ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. FINE ARTS. served under Captain Franklin on his recent | to have lost any of its oxygen. Nitre, thrown | guineas per annum (independently of the 100 arduous expedition, and is a most accomplished upon the surface of the lava, did not produce guineas for the above medals) is, as our readers draftsman. The Chanticleer will sail from such an increase of ignition as would have know, appropriated for their lives, and not by England in the course of a few days for Ma- attended the presence of combustible matter. yearly election, to ten Royal Associates, who deira, from whence she is to proceed to various The gas disengaged from the lava proved, on have each one hundred guineas a year, as a points in the West Indies, and down the coast examination, to be common air. When the mark of their Monarch's sense of their labours of South America to Cape Horn. Her ex-white vapours were condensed on a cold tin in the cause of learning and science. No treme destination is the newly discovered plate, the deposit was found to consist of very vacancy has occurred in this body since their group of the South Shetland Islands; but it pure common salt: and the vapours them- original election. has been stated, that conditional instructions selves contained nine per cent of oxygen, the have been given to Captain Foster to proceed rest being azote, without any notable proporfrom thence as far he can, without risk to his tion of carbonic acid or sulphureous acid gases; THE Antiquarian Society has been in a fership, towards the South Pole, where, judging although the fumes of this latter gas were ex- ment for some time, through the efforts of a from the account of Weddell, he is not likely ceedingly pungent in the smoke from the party of reformers among its members. It is to experience those obstructions which ren- crater of the volcano. On another occasion, probable that some things may be amended in dered the attempt of Parry to reach the North the author examined the saline incrustations consequence of this stir; but we have strongly Pole abortive. We are not aware whether on the rocks near the ancient bocca of Ve- to recommend moderation to our brethren in Captain Foster has been directed to extend suvius, and found them to consist principally their proceedings. The meetings are now dehis researches into the Pacific; but understand of common salt, with some chloride of iron, voted much to debating: a new era in the that his absence from this country is limited to a little sulphate of soda, a still smaller quan- annals of the Society. The annual election, on three years. tity of sulphate or muriate of potassa, and a Monday, will be a trial of strength. minute portion of oxide of copper. In one instance, in which the crystals had a purplish tint, a trace of muriate of cobalt was detected. SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. From the observations made by the author, at TO-DAY is the private view of this peculiarly different periods, he concludes that the dense national branch of our Fine Arts; and, from a white smoke which rose in immense columns hasty glance at the Exhibition, we rejoice to from the stream of lava, and which reflected say, that it will not disappoint the highest exthe morning and evening light of the purest pectations, formed upon the remembrance of tints of red and orange, was produced by the preceding years of excellence. Almost all the salts which were sublimed with the steam; old distinguished contributors are again before it presented a striking contrast to the black us, with productions worthy of their names. smoke arising from the crater, which was Barrett, Cox, Cristall, have their usual [Having long felt, in common with the public, that the clouds, which in the night were highly square inch of space; Fielding, Gastineau, loaded with earthy particles, and formed black charms; Dewint puts a mile of coast into a proceedings of our principal learned and scientific societies have been too little known, to disseminate the information luminous at the moment of the explosion. Harding, Havell, Lewis, Nash, Nesfield, J. of which they are so often the depositaries, in a manner The phenomena observed by the author af- Varley, W. Turner, Pugin, Stephanoff, Wild, acceptable to the country and advantageous to literature ford a sufficient refutation of all the an- Mackenzie, fully maintain their stations; and science, we have entered upon some arrangements to supply this deficiency; and if we cannot communicate all cient hypotheses, in which volcanic fires were Hill's animals are as true to nature as ever— the intelligence we wish, it will at least be found, that the ascribed to such chemical causes as the com- and in one piece, of a deer, with a backLiterary Gazette has done its utmost to promote this useful object, and can do so with some success. bustion of mineral coal, or the action of sul-ground by Robson, the union is truly admimence this week with several examples.] phur upon iron; and they are perfectly con- rable; Hunt has several figures in common A PAPER on the Phenomena of Volcanoes,sistent with the supposition of their depending life, as replete with force, character, and colour, by Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. F.R.S., was read upon the oxidation of the metals of the earths as his promise of last season taught us to exat the meeting of the Royal Society, March on an extensive scale, in immense subterra-pect; Prout has a superb View of Venice, and 20th, 1828. nean cavities, to which water or atmospheric other productions worthy of his pencil; RobIn an article on the decomposition of the air may occasionally have access. The sub- son, several grand landscapes: and Wright, earths, published in the Philosophical Transac-terranean thunder, heard at great distances the Flitch of Bacon, a procession like Stothard's tions for 1812, the author offered it as a con- under Vesuvius prior to an eruption, indi- Canterbury Pilgrims, and the "Burning jecture, that the metals of the alkalies and cates the vast extent of these cavities; and Shame," another, which is no shame to him. earths might exist in the interior of the globe, the existence of a subterranean communica- Among artists, new to us, we particularly and on being exposed to the action of air and tion between the Solfatara and Vesuvius, is noticed a Mr. P. Williams, (now at Rome) water, give rise to volcanic fires, and to the established by the fact, that whenever the whose Italian domestic subjects are amazingly production of lavas, by the slow cooling of latter is in an active state, the former is com- sweet and pleasing. Our time and limits perwhich, basaltic, and other crystalline rocks, paratively tranquil. In confirmation of these mit us to say nothing more: we have given might subsequently be formed. Vesuvius, views, the author remarks, that almost all the the names almost alphabetically; and we have from local circumstances, presents particular volcanoes of considerable magnitude in the old only to add, that, for variety of subject, inadvantages for investigating the truth of this world are in the vicinity of the sea: and terest, and merit, this Exhibition is one of the hypothesis; and of these the author availed in those where the sea is more distant, as in most gratifying that can be imagined. himself, during his residence at Naples, in the the volcanoes of South America, the water may months of December 1819, and of January and be supplied from great subterranean lakes; for February 1820. A small eruption had taken Humboldt states that some of them throw up place a few days before he visited the moun- quantities of fish. The author acknowledges, tain, and a stream of lava was then flowing however, that the hypothesis of the nucleus with considerable activity from an aperture in of the globe being composed of matter liquefied the mountain a little below the crater, which by heat, offers a still more simple solution of was throwing up showers of red-hot stones the phenomena of volcanic fires. every two or three minutes. On its issuing We com SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, SUFFOLK STREET. No. 181. Peter Boats. C. Stanfield.Subjects of this class now form a large portion of every Exhibition. The interest which has been given to them, by the artists who have pursued this branch of the profession, has been the cause of rendering them great favourites from the mountain it was perfectly fluid, and ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. with the public. Like every thing else, howpearly white hot: its surface appeared to be AT a meeting of the Council on Monday last, ever, the multiplication of their numbers must in violent agitation, from the bursting of nu- the two royal golden medals, of the value of necessarily diminish, not their intrinsic, but merous bubbles, which emitted clouds of white fifty guineas each, given annually to individuals their relative, value. Pictures like this of the smoke. There was no appearance of more distinguished by the production of works emi-« Peter Boats," while they prove the high vivid ignition in the lava when it was exposed nent in literature, were adjudged to Crabbe degree of excellence already attained, ought to the air, nor did it glow with more intensity the poet, as the head of an original school of when it was raised and poured out by an iron ladle. A portion was thrown into a glass bottle, which was then closed with a ground stopper; and on examining the air in the bottle, some time afterwards, it was found not He has directed that a site shall be ments of the metropolis are being carried into effect at subscribed several thousand pounds towards the erection His Majesty has, however, done still more for this of a house for the Institution, which we have reason to composition, and to Archdeacon Coxe, as the called his own. Society, which may so emphatically and entirely be believe will be erected forthwith. to shew the young and aspiring painter the Baily, R.A., can hardly be said to have been of Brutus, will, of course, look for a splendid expediency of labouring even, if possible, to properly seen before. Occupying as it does composition, and they will not look in vain. surpass it, if he wish to secure for himself a a principal place in the apartment, the cha- It is of the same size, and covers the whole marked share of public encouragement. racter of beauty, grace, and sentiment, which end of the room at the Egyptian Hall. The No. 241. Scene on the Lynn, Lynmouth, it so eminently possesses, becomes strikingly general form of the grouping approaches the Devon. F. R. Lee.-In painting this beauti- conspicuous. We should rejoice to hear that pyramidal; the centre being occupied by Apful and romantic spot, Mr. Lee has exhibited Mr. Baily had been commissioned to execute pius Claudius and other Decemvirs on the the same talent which we have had occasion this fine composition in more durable mate- Tribune. On the right is the tragic scene to describe in noticing his pictures in other rials.The Susanna, by J. Hefferman, is in of Virginia slain by her father; and on the Exhibitions. Chaste in his colouring, although every respect highly characteristic, and does left, agitated groups of Romans, in various lively and vigorous in his execution, Nature, great credit to the talents of the artist. situations, as caused by fear, anger, &c. &c. in the sobriety of her charms, always appears Maria, by W. F. Woodington, though grace- The whole is treated in the noblest style of to be stamped on his canvass. ful in form, and skilfully composed, is cer- art. The dead Virginia, the menacing parent, NEW PUBLICATIONS. -do the on stone by C. Childs. Engelmann. A FASCINATING and irresistible creature; and an exquisite specimen of the lithographic art. No. 66. "Lisps with holy look his even-tainly not the Maria of Sterne. A pastoral the disorder of Appius and his colleagues, the ing prayer." R. Edmonstone.-The domestic nymph would have been a more appropriate terror of Claudius the accuser, the threatening character of this performance is well calculated title. And here we are compelled, with pain, aspects of Numitorius and Icilius, the fury of to excite the best feelings of our nature. The to observe, that to mutilate and injure works the populace in combat with the lictors, the unsophisticated actions of children are always of this class is a practice so common, that it apathy of the butcher whose knife has per delightful; and the present subject has been cannot be considered otherwise than as na- formed this bloody sacrifice, the agony of the rendered peculiarly interesting by the unaf- tionally disgraceful. Short as has been the nurse and female friends of the victim, and, fected simplicity which, notwithstanding its time since the opening of the Exhibition in indeed, the expression throughout, attractions of composition and colouring, per- Suffolk Street, it has sufficed to subject the utmost honour to M. Le Thière, and place vades it. figure of which we are speaking to this him, deservedly, in the foremost rank of the Nos. 458 and 461. English Characters. scandalous treatment. The lute and riband, French national school. G. R. Lewis. These little spirited_perform- though now restored, were broken off by some ances remind us of "The Cries of London," stupid and mischievous scoundrel. Does the which, at an early period of art in this coun- perpetrator of such an atrocity flatter himself The Pride of the Village. Designed and drawn try, were exceedingly popular subjects. The that he does not more richly deserve the etchings of Paul Sandby, in particular, are tread-mill, flogging, or some other infamous still sought after by amateur collectors. Mr. punishment, than many on whom it is inLewis has rendered his specimens of English flicted? It is such conduct as this that characters very interesting, by the way in is pleaded in justification of those persons exquisitely beautiful design has been published The Guardian Angel.-Under this title, an who exclude the public from seeing, gratui- by Mr. Flint, from the hand of D. Morrison, tously, monuments, and other works of art, the modeller to the royal family. It is in a cirfor which the public purse has paid. In the cle of about three inches and a half in diameter, present improved and improving state of the and represents two heads in profile; the one a metropolis and its neighbourhood, it would be lovely human being-and the other the Guarexceedingly desirable, not only for the encou- dian Angel, with seraph wings, and a hand ragement of art, but for the credit of the upon her breast. The countenances are purely country, that single statues or groups should Grecian, and have a happy resemblance to each be placed in our gardens, squares, and other other; the hair is luxuriant, and finely arplaces of public resort. The Regent's Park, ranged; the draperies slight, and admirably above all, would, among its plantations and transparent; the hands charmingly formed; elsewhere, afford situations suitable for such the clouds, rays, and other accessories, all in a purpose. But where shall we find a gua- the best taste. It is, indeed, one of those chaste rantee for their safety? Not, we regret to and touching performances which appeal, not say, in that love and respect for the fine arts only to the eye, but to the heart; and will, we which distinguish all nations calling them-are sure, become the ornament of many a select selves civilised, but our own. No; to secure boudoir. which he has treated them. No. 359. Approach to the Enchanted Castle and Gardens of Armida.-(Vide Tasso.) W. Haddock, jun. Imaginary scenes of this kind, described in the glowing language of the poet, are admirably calculated to call forth the talents of the painter. The present subject is one that has frequently been treated: among others that we recollect, by Le Moine, a French artist, from whose picture a very spirited print was published. Our young English painter has shewn considerable skill in the management and general effect of his work. The height at which it is placed will not allow us to judge of its executive details. No. 312. The Oyster-Girl. F. Rowlston. As an effect of light, this performance may rank with the best of the celebrated Schalken's pictures, of a similar character. MEDAL OF LORD ELDON. any such productions from either wanton or malicious violence, they must be girt round No. 64. The Loiterer. R. Farrier. Mr. with iron, or placed above the reach of vulgar A VERY striking likeness of this eminent perFarrier's talents have placed him high in the insolence and folly. It is well known, that son has just been published by Mr. Kreeft. It rank of painters of domestic and familiar life. even the noble statue in Hyde Park, although is the work of Mr. Voight, now pursuing his His characters are full of expression, his exe- made of a material which secured it from mu- studies at Rome, as we hear, with much discution is remarkably clear; and the number tilation, was subjected to every description of tinction; and is executed in gold, silver, and and finish of his works shew that his industry low and despicable indignity, until a near bronze. The medal is deeply cut, and repreis unremitting. We fear, however, that, like approach to it was effectually prevented. Re-sents the learned lord in profile, as Lord High some other artists in the same department, he turning from this digression, for which we Chancellor of Great Britain; and though the does not take sufficient time, not merely to are sure our readers will pardon us, we have dress wig of that office is not auspicious to consider his subject when chosen, but to guard little to add to our remarks. The Prometheus style, the artist has, in every other respect, against his choice being common-place. It is chained, by J. Kendrick, is a performance of not sufficient that our painters should rival high merit; although we think the form the old Flemish in execution; the intellectual and action of the eagle do not partake sufficharacter of this country demands that they ciently of the grandeur of the other parts should excel them in thought and sentiment. of the design. The half-size models of C. M. Nevertheless, we do not see much to object to, V. Weber, and of Sir James Leuth, by the on that score, in Mr. Farrier's" Loiterer," same artist, exhibit to great advantage his with the exception of the too violent action of talents in the more familiar branches of his the dame, which savours more of the Bilings- profession. The Cavalcade proceeding to the gate virago, than of an angry mistress or mo- Tournament (from Ivanhoe), by S. Henning, ther waiting the arrival of the pitcher from is exceedingly beautiful in its way; but has the well. too much of the gem in its relief, to be adSCULPTURE ROOM. There is little of vantageously seen in the light in which it is novelty in the room appropriated to this de-placed. partment of art; but, as we have before observed, the light and the arrangement give an interest to most of the models, and shew THIS grand painting, by M. Le Thière, will them to great advantage. Even the enchant- be exhibited on Monday. Those who recollect ing group of Poetry and Painting, by E. H. this celebrated painter's picture of the Death DEATH OF VIRGINIA. acquitted himself so ably, that his lasting portraiture of the features of a man so distinguished in our annals, is likely to be most favourably received by his friends and admirers. To them, and to collectors generally, we can fairly recommend this production of art, as well meriting their attention. The reverse has an inscription, recording the leading events of his lordship's long and valuable life. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. A VISIT TO NEWSTEAD IN 1828. IT was on the noon of a cold, bleak day in February, that I set out to visit the memorable Abbey of Newstead, once the property and abode of the immortal Byron. The gloomy state of the weather, and the dreary aspect of the surrounding country, produced impressions more appropriate to the view of such a spot than Near this spot Are deposited the remains of one "Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit:" the cheerful season and scenery of summer. | have been chosen for the pious purposes to the Abbey. From the gallery I entered the With melancholy feelings, then, did I proceed which it was devoted. To the north and east refectory, now the grand drawing-room-an in search of this noble relic of conventual is a garden walled in; and to the west the apartment of great dimensions, facing south, times, over which the departed spirit of the upper lake, into which Byron's uncle one day with a fine vaulted roof and polished oak floor, poet has now thrown the mantle of his genius, threw his wife; and on the borders of which and splendidly furnished in the modern style. and cast a halo of fame, which ages will not are seen the baby forts mentioned by Horace The walls are covered with full-length portraits dissipate. The estate lies on the left-hand side Walpole in one of his letters describing a visit of the old school. As this room has been made of the high north road, eight miles beyond to Newstead. It was here that Byron amused fit for use entirely since the days of Byron, Nottingham; but, as I approached the place, himself with his boat and his dogs, the quali- there are not those associations connected with I looked in vain for some indication of the ties of one of which he has immortalised in it which are to be found in many of the other, Abbey. Nothing is seen but a thick plantation his verses. Of the external appearance of the though of inferior appearance. Two objects of young larch and firs, bordering the road, building, a much better idea may, of course, there are, however, which demand observation. until you arrive at the Hut, a small public-be formed from a glance at a drawing than The first that caught my attention was the house by the way-side. Nearly opposite to from pages of description. On the west side portrait of Byron, by Phillips, over the firethis is a plain white gate, without lodges, which the mansion is without any enclosure or garden place, upon which I gazed with strong feelings: opens into the park. From the appearance drive, and can therefore be approached by any it is certainly the handsomest and most pleasing The other is a which the Hut makes in Cary's Road-book, one person passing through the park. In this open likeness of him I have seen. might be led to think it an inn; and being space is the ancient fountain or cistern of the thing about which every body has heard, and situated so near the entrance to the park, of convent, covered with grotesque carvings, and of which few have any just idea. In a cabinet course a convenient place of accommodation having water still running into a basin. The at the end of the room, carefully preserved and for all visitors to the Abbey. It is, however, old church window, which, in an architectural concealed in a sliding case, is kept the celebrated only a small pot-house belonging to the estate, point of view, is most deserving of observation, skull cup, upon which are inscribed those and does not afford even one bed. Before the is nearly entire, and adjoins the north-west splendid verses :gate stands a fine, spreading oak, one of the corner of the Abbey. About the mysterious "Start not,-nor deem my spirit fled," &c. few remaining trees of Sherwood forest, the sound produced at certain times by the wind People often suppose, from the name, that famous haunt of Robin Hood and his asso. on this arch (as mentioned in the thirteenth the cup retains all the terrific appearances of ciates, which once covered all this part of the canto of Don Juan, the whole of which descrip- a death's head, and imagine that they could County, and whose centre was about the do- tion relates to Newstead), I could obtain no main of Newstead. To this oak, the only information. Through the iron gate which one of any size on the estate, Byron was opens into the garden under the arch, is seen not at all-there is nothing whatever startling very partial. It is pretty well known that the dog's tomb: it is on the north side, upon in it; nothing can be cleaner and less offensive his great uncle (to whom he succeeded) cut a raised ground, and surrounded by steps.in fact, nobody would know, were he not down almost all the valuable timber, partly The verses inscribed on one side of the pe- told, that it was not a common bone bowl. It to pay gambling debts, and partly for pure mis- destal are well known, being published with is made of the crown of the head cut straight chief's sake, to injure the property which he his poems; but the lines preceding them are off, so that all the disgusting portion of a skull knew would pass into another branch of the not so they run thus: is avoided; is well polished; its edge is bound family, all of whom, in consequence of his by a broad rim of silver; and it is set in a neat having killed Mr. Chaworth, had forsaken him. stand of the same metal, which serves as a So that when Byron came into possession of handle, and upon the four sides of which, and the estate, and indeed the whole time he had not on the skull itself, the verses are enit, it presented a very bare and desolate apgraved. It is, in short, in appearance, a very pearance. Unluckily he had not fortune enough handsome utensil, and one from which the to do what has since been done on such an most fastidious person might (in my opinion) enlarged scale, and with so much taste, by the drink without scruple. It was always pro present owner, Lieut.-Colonel Wildman, and duced after dinner when Byron had comwhich alone can render the property intrinsically The whole edifice is a quadrangle, enclosing a pany at the Abbey, and a bottle of claret vainable. The soil is very poor, and fit only court, with a reservoir and jet-d'eau in the mid-poured into it. It was wrought by a man at for the growth of larch and firs; and of these dle, and the cloister still entire, running round Nottingham, who was severely reproved by a upwards of 700 acres have been planted. the four sides. At this time the ground was co-worthy divine not far from Newstead for this Byron could not afford the first outlay which vered with deep snow. The south, now, as I have profanation of the dead. The reply of the was necessary in order ultimately to increase said, the principal front, looks over a pleasure workman, that he should be happy to make a its worth, so that as long as he held it its garden to a small lake, which has been opened similar one out of his head after death, upon rental did not exceed £1300 a year. From the from the upper one since Byron's time. There being equally well paid for the trouble, so gate to the Abbey is a mile. The carriage. were before two lakes, one on the west, which alarmed the reverend gentleman, that he was road runs straight for about 300 yards through is the principal, and another supplied by a taken seriously ill, and confined for a conthe plantations, when it takes a sudden turn stream from it, at a considerable distance lower siderable time to his house. An elegant round to the right; and on returning to the left, a down to the south-east. The entrance-door library-table is the only article of furniture in beautiful and extensive view over the valley is on the west, in a small vestibule, and has this room that belonged to Byron, and this zad distant hills is opened, with the turrets nothing remarkable in it. On entering, I he constantly used. It may here be observed of the Abbey rising among the dark trees be- came into a large stone hall, and turning to as a matter of course, and a thing applicable to th. The effect at this spot is admirably the left, went through it to a smaller, beyond the other rooms as well as to this, that the winmanaged, and fully compensates for all the dis- which is the staircase. The whole of this part appointment at not seeing it sooner. To the has been almost entirely rebuilt by Col. Wildreht of the Abbey is perceived a tower on a hill, man: indeed, during Byron's occupation, the in the midst of a grove of firs. From this part only habitable rooms were some small ones in the road winds gently to the left, till it reaches the south-east angle. Over the cloister, on the the Abbey. About half a mile from the high four sides of the building, runs the gallery, rod is another gate, with a wall running east from which doors open into various apartments, and west. Here the plantation ceases, and the now fitted up with taste and elegance for the trees, from this forward, are arranged in small accommodation of a family, but then empty, and circular patches here and there, as if to cover fast going to decay. In one of the galleries the nakedness of the land. The Abbey is ap-hang two oil paintings of dogs, as large as life: proached on the north side: it lies in a valley, one a red wolf-dog, and the other a black very low, sheltered to the north and west by Newfoundland with white legs-the celebrated rising ground; and to the south, which is now Boatswain. These are the dogs that used to to be considered the front, enjoying a fine drag him out of the lake, into which he would prospect over an undulating vale. It can only purposely fall to try their fidelity. They both be called open, properly, to the south-west, as the land on all the other sides is more or less devated. A more secluded spot could hardly Is but a just tribute to the memory of Who was born in Newfoundland, May 1803, died at Newstead. Of the latter, Byron felt dows of the Abbey originally looked into the cloister or quadrangle, and that the present ones are of modern date. With this exception, and not taking into consideration the destruction of the church and other buildings belonging to the Abbey, it does not appear that the structure has undergone material changes in its external form or internal arrangement. Beyond the refectory, on the same floor, is Byron's study, now used as a temporary dining-room, the entire furniture of which is the same that was used by him: it is all very plain-indeed ordinary. A good painting of a battle, over the sideboard, was also his. This apartment, perhaps beyond all others, deserves the attention of the pilgrim to Newstead, as more intimately connected with the poetical existence of Byron. It was here that he prepared for the press those first effusions of his genius, |