the former work, each plate is enlivened by | Stratford, whose acquirements, taste, and lei-not hesitate to withhold it; for, he continues, two humorous lines from the pen of T. Hood. sure, have secured him the most intimate ac- (page 29 of the Supplement,) in speaking of a Those on the blacksmith are especially happy:quaintance with the subject. portrait in his possession, one of the forgeries ""Tis said that Vice-and here's the very case-"Unvarying tradition has pointed out the by Zincke, which has been engraved among the Can harden the expression of the face." house represented in the accompanying plate as illustrations in the Supplement: "I think that that in which John Shakspeare resided when I may say with truth, that it is the most sucSTATUE OF MR. CANNING AT LIVERPOOL. his illustrious son was born. Though it is now cessful effort to deceive the unwary, or even the Ar a meeting of subscribers to a monumental of unassuming appearance, and rather of mean experienced connoisseur, ever done." Judging tribute in memory of Mr. Canning, at Liver- character as to architectural grace, it was pro- from the print, we think that Mr. Wivell has pool, it was, after considerable discussion, bably in the sixteenth century esteemed a in no one instance exposed so clumsy a fabriagreed, on the motion of Mr. Gladstone, to dwelling quite adequate to the domestic ac-cation, and one so obviously an imposition. erect a bronze statue of the illustrious deceased, commodation of a glover, even though enrolled We suspect that Mr. Wivell's real dislike to amongst the corporation, and executing the our criticism of his work, arose from our having magistracy in a provincial town of the ordinary not only disbelieved his assertion upon the Felpretensions of Stratford. The instrument is ton picture, but proved that it was a forgery. still preserved in the archives of the borough In stating its history, and that it was painted whereby John Shakspeare became the actual by Cranch (mispelt Crauch in our notice), we possessor of these premises, in 1574, by pur- repeated the declaration of one of Cranch's most chase from Edmund and Emma Hall, for the intimate friends, who knew of the facts as they sum of 401. They then consisted of two dwel- occurred, and who had often enjoyed a laugh lings, with gardens, &c. He resided in the with Cranch at the folly of those who had Eastern House, including the frontage here been deceived. We may add, in justice to Mr. delineated; and on his demise he left the Wivell, who checks our further remarks upon whole to William, his eldest son, who be- his ill-written book by his plea of ignorance, queathed them to his children, reserving a life that, in spite of its errors, it contains much interest to his sister Joan in the particular re-valuable and authentic information, which will sidence of their father, wherein she dwelt till her death in 1646." in the centre of St. George's crescent, at the top of Lord Street. Some of the subscribers wished the statue to be of marble, and placed in the town-hall; but the majority decided on the more public situation, which necessarily led to the adoption of bronze. Mr. Chantrey is to execute the work; and as Mr. Westmacott is engaged to make a similar statue, on a larger scale, for London, we shall have the opportunity of witnessing the different ideas of these two distinguished artists on one of the finest subjects that could exercise their genius. SHAKESPEARE. To this paragraph Mr. Rider adds: The Spirit of the Plays of Shakespeare, exhi- mour with us, or with himself, than he ought be read with advantage by those who are inter. Gallery of Shakspeare: Hamlet. By MINIATURE copies, etched with great skill ORIGINAL POETRY. Ne longerr smyl'dd upponn the lea, Dyd hys goldenn feeres expyrynge flee. Ne sownde the nyghtt's deepe slumberrs Lych age's sylverrie cryne2 orr smoke. Inn breathelesse sylence stoode the trees, The ryverrs trembledd onn theyr waie, And lyghttlie o'err the dewie mees Inn cyrcles daunc'dd the leven's3 raie. Hys face look'dd whyterr thann a shrowd, A sanguyne mole upponn hys breste, And inn hys hand a speare he bore. In our last poem from this beautiful source we should correct the following:-for autumpe read autumpne us to subscribe to the infallibility of his judg-earnefull, ermefull-Ne moe wyth myne wyll, &c., Ne moe wyth myne 'tt wyll, &c.-darkenns, darkenn. ment upon the Shakspeare Portraits, we do Stars. Hair. Lightning. Perturbation. 66 Agaynstt mie lyffe upponn thys spott Hys lethall sworde the murth'rerr bore, And here itt is mie spyrytt's lott To roame att nyghtt foreverrmore! Deny'dd a restynge-place onn hie, Through erthe itt nowe bewreenes hirr dole, transactions in the upper sphere of life, and Forr nothynge can approache the skie Yett doethh itt mie spyrytt joie, As thorow ayre itt roames unblestt, Wyll tayntt forr aye the murthererr's breste." SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. MODERN: HOME: HIGH! (1.) THERE is an adage to the effect, that one man may steal a horse with impunity, while another man shall be hanged for looking over a hedge; and we see illustrations of the truth of this every day. We see that, as if by common consent, the vices or crimes of certain persons are seldom or never alluded to: it seems as if only such parts of their characters as they might wish the world to think and speak of, are what the world consents to receive and act upon. On the contrary, we see other persons, as it were, singled out to be the scapegoats of society, the victims for sacrifice, with a whole hecatomb of the sins of their fellows laid upon their heads, all their good qualities thrown into oblivion, and themselves persecuted as monsters without a redeeming virtue. We have been led to these remarks by the perusal of a variety of pamphlets relative to which have really astonished us by the scenes they unfold. It is painful to read these details; but when read, we are forced to acknowledge that there are more extraordinary things in real life than were ever invented for the plots of fashionable novels, or fictions of any description whatever. BYRONIANA. voted heads, strike the knife to their hearts, informed; but even if he did, we are proud to and sprinkle their blood about, that we may say that England has just furnished a nobler be considered purified. instance of devotedness to science. A young surgeon (as appears from the police reports), of the name of Mr. Henry Holme, having through the agency of his father obtained access into the family vault at Hendon, under the plea of burying the daughter of the one and the sister of the other (most probably a headless trunk), took the opportunity of pursuing his phrenological researches, by breaking open three coffins, and cutting off and carrying away in a bag the heads of their ghastly inmates. What Of all the narratives which we ever perused, adds to the beauty of the transaction, is the that which (in several of these pamphlets) re- circumstance that one of these heads was that lates the domestic history of Mr. L. Wellesley of the enthusiastic Inquirer's own mother. The is the most extraordinary. When a man sits evidence states that he lifted up the corpse, down in his closet quietly and dispassionately removed the shroud from the body, and then to weigh it, he cannot believe his senses, that severed its head with a knife, and bagged the such a farce has been gravely and legally acted, maternal booty for a home experiment. This by men of the highest station and authority, matter has, it seems, excited a strong antiin the very present age. Of errors this gentle- scientific sensation in the uncivilised parish of man has displayed an abundance for his every Hendon, a place in the wilds, eight miles remote hour, at home or abroad, his moments of re- from London; and the churchwardens, &c. are laxation and hilarity, have been ransacked, prosecuting Mr. H. junior for stealing his mamhis looks and his language, in privacy and in ma's head. Mr. H. senior, however, the present public, have been translated-nay, his motives or existing head of the H. family, has given bail and ideas have been sworn to ;-and all this by for his son, and the magistrates were assured whom?-by worthless menials, by scoundrel that the investigation was desired only in conseattorneys and their clerks, and by disappointed quence of there being something wrong about the expectants, who, if they could not eat the brains of the H.'s, and that the furtive operator honey, were well enough disposed to destroy did not the less "honour his father and his the honey-maker. We have looked at this mother, that his days might be long in the case carefully, and we would not palliate one land."We consider the whole to be a trierror of Mr. L. Wellesley's for the universe; umph of science, and especially of the princibut because we condemn his dissipation, are ples of phrenology. we prepared for the inquisitorial consequence, for the rack he has suffered, and for the moral death to which he has been doomed? We say And the rationale of both these cases is frankly that we are not; and we shall proceed AT the time Lord Byron was one of the comto be discovered firmly founded on human to develop the most prominent of the circum-mittee for the management of Drury Lane, a nature: it is, indeed, the same principle stances which our pamphlet-reading enables us pretty young woman, who had been smitten with which leads to the extreme opposites of con- to review-promising, that we shall at least the disease of scrawling poetry, went to his house clusions and actions; as from our own centre afford our readers some curious sketches of with her manuscripts, to request permission to we indifferently direct our eye to either pole. society from these and other sources. The dedicate her work to his lordship. He received Self is the source of all. In sparing, on Literary Gazette cannot deal in scandal, or her in his library, and made many inquiries the one hand, we soothe our own sense we should have enough to gratify the rankest respecting her situation and mode of life. of errors, and plume ourselves upon the li- appetites. Some strange stories must appear, Finding she was dependant, and had formed berality which makes allowances for the im- but of these we shall be tender and cautious. the intention of trusting to her pen for her perfections of mankind, ourselves among the What Lord Westmeath has to tell of his lady-future subsistence, he urged her in the most number. We are wonderfully magnanimous loss; and what Mr. Wellesley has to say eloquent and gentle manner to abandon such towards frailties, because we admit that we against those who, if he be deprived of his a thought, and pointed out the wretchedness too are frail; and in the compromise held parental rights, have, at least, no right to of a mode of existence at once so laborious out to others, we not only rock our own supersede him, we shall fairly extract. The and precarious. He warned her of the great consciences to sleep, but we require an equal account we promise, will fill an appropriate danger of doing what she had then done, and license to be granted to our offences in sheet of our sketches of living manners; and, counselled her never again to visit a young man return. It is a bargain of iniquity; the if we execute our purpose as we contemplate, either in his own house or any where else; quid pro quo in vicious indulgence! But be uninstructive neither to the present age nor and having ascertained what she expected to we must also, on other occasions, assume a to that which may hereafter pick up a volume receive for her manuscript, which he advised virtue if we have it not, and then it is of our labours. her not to publish, he presented her with a that our fury keeps no bounds. There is no 501. note, and dismissed her, full of gratitude, consideration, no mercy, in us. As if our own and deeply affected by his dignified kindness purity were in proportion to the vehemence WHETHER Dr. Gall bequeathed his cranium and the sterling value of his advices. with which we denounce every fault, we find to his disciples or not, we are not sufficiently no grounds of alleviation, no causes for excuse. In the severity of our judgments we seek to hide ourselves from ourselves, and most hypocritically condemn the very follies and crimes of which we are guilty. This mixture of cunning and villany shews us off to advantage; and, by a strange delusion, as we fancy we deceive the rest of the world, we either partially or entirely deceive our own perceptions. The tacit compact is general, and its terms are, Give me credit for my good qualities, and I ,will give you a like credit; at the same time let us cordially join in abhorring, detesting, and execrating, the stricken deers of the herd. As in the old Mosaic law, let us lay the whole burthens of the congregation upon their de-side. PHRENOLOGY IN ITS GLORY. Printed at the Independent Press; and privately circulated 2. Judgment of the Right Honourable Earl Eldon, Lord Miller. 1827. Unpublished. This I have related to you to shew that Lord B. did not deserve some of the obloquy heaped upon him in his mature years; but, going deeper into the causes of such errors as those with which he may be more justly charged, there is a circumstance which I know did occur, and which, I doubt not, had a powerful influence upon his disposition. It is well known that his father, Colonel Byron, wooed and married Miss Gordon, of Gight, her fortune; and having succeeded in this for the purpose of paying his debts out of right honourable scheme, the whole of his subsequent conduct towards her was consistent with it, and calculated to blight her every innocent hope, to poison her high spirit, and to • Var. lect. Holme experiment. line: crush her heart. Some months before the From Vienna he intends to proceed to Paris, | varied talents. Skilful in the art of expressbirth of Lord Byron, she went to the theatre and thence to London. ing malice, perverseness, cutting irony, terin Edinburgh, to see Mrs. Siddons, then in: A new translation of Sir W. Scott's Lady of rible rage, he does not know how to impart the full glory of her powers, play the part of the Lake has appeared; it is masterly done: as Isabella, in the Fatal Marriage; and the co-a proof of its fidelity I give you the following incidence of the name of Biron, added to the effect of Mrs. Siddons's performance, so completely overwhelmed her, that she fell into strong convulsions, and was carried home delirious. All sensible medical men are aware of the powerful influence that such agitations, and such a state of mind and feeling in a mother, were likely to have on the future temper and character of her son. MUSIC. "The deer, half seen, are to the covert wending," is given by Der vogel taucht in's dickicht sein gefieder; which literally means, The bird into the copse its plumage plunges. DRAMA. HAYMARKET. to his acting the charm which accompanies heroism, generous sentiments, noble virtues; and it must be confessed, that it is especially this description of dramatic pictures which the French public prefers; although, to succeed in producing it, an actor may have less need of talent. If to this disadvantage be joined the exhaustion which at present deprives this actor of a portion of his powers, the reputation which he has acquired in England, and the judgment which has been pronounced upon him in France, may easily be explained. Valeria!-altered from Valerie by a lady of They who have been shocked by certain acrank: prettily written, but the subject too tions, without grace or dignity, too often reextravagant and dull to be made any thing of peated, and by those affected sobs, which ocby any body. Miss F. H. Kelly played the open-casionally resemble a convulsive laugh, are ing scenes admirably; but was rather too violent right in their censure; but justice requires towards the end. The celebrated j'existe! was us to remark, that these are the defects of the quite lost in the translation, and was j'existe national taste, rather than of that of the actor; no longer. Miss Kelly looked towards the for it was precisely in those passages that his audience for objects, when she had recovered countrymen applauded him with the greatest her sight; Mademoiselle Mars, with propriety, enthusiasm. He must, therefore, be pardoned kept at the back of the stage, where there was for having too frequent recourse to these vula landscape. But as Miss K. had only a library garities: it is precisely that cause of his sucscene, she could not well help the deviation, cess in his own country which has in ours which had, however, a ridiculous effect. Al diminished the effect of his talent. Kean was together, the subject was better handled by also more highly appreciated, and his performPoole, in a small piece called Augusta, at ances attracted fuller audiences, towards the Drury Lane, a few seasons ago, where it failed. close of his engagement in Paris."- Revue Encyclopédique. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. MACREADY." [The following, from Vienna, has been printed several weeks, and waiting an opportunity for insertion.] THE great novelty and prodigy of the day is one M. Paganini, an Italian performer on the violin. This is the first time that he has left Italy; but I heard him previously, about five years ago, at Milan, in competition with M. Lafond, whom he beat fairly. He is, without contradiction, not only the first player on the violin, but no other performer, upon what instrument soever, can be styled his equal: Kalkbrenner, Rode, Romberg, Moscheles, Jew and Gentile, are his inferiors by at least some thousand degrees: they are not fit as we say in Germany, to reach him the water. He is Matthews on the violin, performs a whole concert on a single string, where you A VERY pleasant trifle, called The Quartette, are sure to hear, besides his own instrument, a harp, a guitar, and a flute. In one word, he or Interrupted Harmony,—as light as a feather, "We have already stated our opinion of is a necromancer, and bids fair to beat lawas brought out here on Thursday. It is Macready, and we have little to add to it. giraffe. We have here hats, shawls, gloves, whimsical, and well put together, with two Of the three tragedians who share the apand nonsense of every description à la giraffe; ard, who played capitally. The story is of a the one whom we prefer. It is he who apvery pretty songs, prettily sung by Miss Gow-plause of the English public, Macready is but yesterday I actually ate Auflaufy:-you lady, who, living in retirement some leagues pears to us to possess, in the highest degree, will caution your translator against translating from Paris, and, to escape scandal, forbidding the secret of speaking to the soul, and the the word by the gathering of a mob it is merely a very innocent, rather insipid, sweetmen the house,-through her love for music gift of creating emotion: it is he who apgets the staff of a hussar regiment by degrees proximates the most nearly to our taste, by meat à la Paganini. These heroes, on the being natural without vulgarity, and elegant There is a great deal of romance in the arrival of her uncle, the general, hide them-without affectation. He is occasionally chargequartered upon her. report about his former life, and the means and vicissitudes by which he has attained such selves; but he finding the trumpeter, who is extraordinary skill. Already a clever peralso of the party, makes him blow the turn former, he killed his wife from jealousy, or out, and they all turn out accordingly. The whole raised a good laugh from beginning to threw her into the water, which amounts to the same thing, as it shews the same kind end, as hearty as it was short. disposition. For want of evidence, however, he was not executed for this crime, but Ar this theatre the opera of Artaxerxes has condemned to ten years' imprisonment. His been played by the juvenile corps: and the judge, it seems, must have been an ama- little Coveney proved herself a perfect young teur, for he allowed him to take his violin Billington in Mandane. The other parts were to his place of confinement; but, by the also filled as well as possible by their small whimsical proviso he made, one might think representatives. A new harlequinade, besides, this same judge to have been an English- witnesses to the activity of Mr. Elliston. man; for, although he allowed him his violin, he would by no means grant him a supply of strings, so that poor Paganini was reduced to "WE attentively studied Kean in the last one only, when, after seven years' imprison- characters in which he appeared, and we rament, the King of Naples (for the whole hap-tify all the praises that we have already given English stage."-Revue Encyclopédique. pened at Naples, and under the reign of Na- him; only adding, that in comparing him to SINCLAIR has been performing for ten days poleon) chanced to pass his prison-house, heard Monvel for the perfect accuracy of his diction, with great éclat at Liverpool, where the jourhim harp upon his last string, and was so his great intelligence, and his talent in sup-nals say he was in excellent voice and enchanted by his performance, that he imme-plying by art the absence of the gifts of na-cored in every thing." Miss Noel enacted and diately issued orders for his release. All this, ture, we ought to have said that he did not sang the leading female parts also much to the however, he contradicts by an article in the approach Monvel with respect to the unction gratification of the audiences. Beobachter and the Modenzeitung, of which I which that actor threw so admirably into his send you a copy. parts. Kean has not obtained a fashionable He has already performed thrice to crowded success at Paris; but he has been duly esti houses in our great Masquerade Hall. The be- mated by a select portion of the public,-by ginning of the concert was, as usual, stated for amateurs who have taken the pains to study half-past eleven; at eleven, not a pin dropping his manner. Undoubtedly, they do not refrom the roof would have reached the ground: cognise in Kean a perfect actor, or one of very people were already there at nine o'clock. He came hither with six florins (paper) in his with success in the west of England, Liverpool, and other Mr. Kean has been of late occasionally performing pocket; now you may style him a warm man.places. SURREY THEATRE. KEAN.* able with action a little formal, with attitudes in the rank of the most celebrated actors of the VARIETIES. 66 en members of the French Academy, appointed at Saltpetre. A commission, composed of four Mr. Macready is playing, we observe from the Cambridge Chronicle, with iminense applause at Cambridge. His Virginius, Othello, and William Tell, are spoken most enthusiastically. Kemble, Kean, and Macready. The Parisians not yet had an opportunity of seeing Young.-Ed. L. G. ve the desire of the government, has lately made an elaborate report, on the best means of producing saltpetre on economical terms; and more especially on the merit of the artificial nitrates formed from materials containing neither animal nor vegetable matter, recommended by M. Longchamp. The Pendulum.It is stated in a Plymouth newspaper, that Professor Airy of Cambridge has arrived at some new and unexpected results in experiments with the pendulum, made in some of the deepest Cornish mines. Improvements.The regeneration of Covent Garden market is now in progress; and this, hitherto, great nuisance will be made a noble market-place, and an ornament to London, under the auspices of its landlord, his Grace the Duke of Bedford. Earthquakes. Two earthquakes were felt at Martinique in the month of July; the one on the 6th, at half-past two o'clock in the morning; the other on the 29th, at half-past four in the morning. The latter preceded by twenty-three hours the earthquake which did so much mischief at Lima; and it is probable, therefore, that the two events were not unconnected. one of the beautiful Annuals of the present day. ADVERTISEMENTS, Connected with Literature and the Arts. The Fall of Nineveh, Deluge, &c. &c. TURES, by Mr. MARTIN, the Painter of "Belshaz THE EXHIBITION of the above PIC. zar's Feast," at the Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, will close on the 26th of this month. The Proofs of the Deluge, price Five Guineas, are now ready for delivery, at 30, Allsop Terrace. ARMSTRONG'S LECTURES on DR. ARMSIT ANATOMY, NATURE, and TREATMENT of ACUTE and CHRONIC DISEASES. Dr. Arm injects, on Wednesday, the 1st of October, 1828, at half-past Five A Bull. It appears, by a notice issued under the highest authority of the City of London (it would do credit to Dublin), that the carriageway along Ludgate Hill and Street is closed, order that the new pavement may be relaid. LITERARY NOVELTIES. was collected and published by his widow two years after The Bishop of Down and Connor (Dr. Mant) is pre- Epidemic. A singular epidemic has prevailed during the last six months in the islands of the archipelago of the Antilles. It resembles articular rheumatism in the sharp pains of the limbs, with swelling. In most cases it is accompanied with an eruption analogous to scarlet fever. It is not, however, very dangerous. At one time half the inhabitants of the Havannah were attacked by it. All the medical practitioners agree that they never witnessed a simiTimes Telescope for the ensuing year is to be publar epidemic; and to denote its strange charac-lished at the usual time, and will, we are assured, contain ter, the people in the French Antilles have named it "the giraffe." Maize. Maize was cultivated in America at the time of the discovery of the new world. The Rev. C. Benson, Master of the Temple, is about Mr. H. Smith has, it is said, in preparation another a variety of new and interesting matter, original poetry In the Press-The Casket of Literary Gems. Second It was never known to the Arabs, the Romans,A System of Geograplin's Ancient History, &c.-| or the Greeks, on the ancient continent. The African plant, which some authors have identified with maize, is only a particular kind of millet. Foreign Journal. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Sequel to Wanostrocht's Recueil, 12mo. 4s. sheep.- strong will commence his Lectures on the above-mentioned Subo'Clock, p. m. in the Anatomical and Medical School, Webb Street, Maze Pond, Borough. These Lectures will be illustrated by numerous Drawings, Morbid Preparations, and Casts in Wax and Plaster. For further Particulars, apply to Dr. Armstrong, 48, Russell Square. From the Office of " Bell's Life in London," 169, Strand, Sept. 1828, WE have received a vast number of Letters Life in London," served by Agents in the Country, which we have no doubt are as injurious to us as they are offensive to our friends. 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Samuel Hinds, "It gave us pleasure to receive the present Number of the Fo Mademoiselle Sontag. The French critics, Vice-Principal of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford.-A History of the Church of England, to the beginning of the Nine-reign Review. The first article, Delambre's History of Astronomy, speaking of Mademoiselle Sontag's re-appear-teenth Century. By the Rev. J. B. S. Carwithen, of St. may perhaps deter some from perusing it, through an apprehension ance in Paris, after her excursion to London, Mary's Hall, Oxford, Author of the Bampton Lectures of meeting with scientific details. Let them not be afraid, they not readily understand. It exhibits a clear and interesting view say that every body was curious to ascertain for 1809.-Another volume, in quarto, of Dr. Lingard's will meet with nothing which those who are least scientific may History of England is nearly ready. of the progress of improvement in certain astronomical instru what effect the English climate had produced ments, to which the science is chiefly indebted for its present state of comparative perfection; and the perusal of it, so far on her voice and talent! They add, that she from being irksome, will, we are persuaded, be a source of no appears to have acquired more power and voordinary pleasure. Article X. Modern French Novels, contains lume in her middle tones, and that several of her notes, which were formerly dull, are now distinct; but that, on the other hand, her METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1828. tain sum of money were instantly paid. But she met her equal general voice is less soft, sweet, and silvery than formerly; and that she forces it beyond its natural power. They charge this, however, not upon the London fogs, but upon the London amateurs, whose remarks have induced Mademoiselle Sontag to change the style of her singing. Recipe for making White Crows or Ravens. -Rub with the fat of a white cat some crows' eggs those new laid are the best; let the eggs also be done over with the brains of the said cat; afterwards set them to be hatched by a very white pullet that has never hatched before; during the whole time she must be kept impervious to the sun, and the place must be hung with white linen cloths; and the crows or ravens produced from these eggs will be white!!! 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