ments and vast operations. How stupendous have not only sent printed circulars to the by all who derive pleasure from seeing the the consideration! Suns so immeasurably dis- various Journals, but have absolutely issued a opportunities increased in this great metrotant, that the light of those which are supposed book, pretending to the same authority, and polis of acquiring all kinds of laudable knowto be contiguous, is three years in traversing containing nothing except an apocryphal tissue ledge. the space that separates them; yet these con- of mistatements and inventions. It is very nected with each other, and innumerable others, difficult for editors to guard against such im ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND. on the simple principle of gravitation, these pudent frauds:† we have only to caution them AN antiquarian investigation of considerable stars, so numerous, that in the small compass and the public against anonymous communica- interest took place last week at Keston, in of half a degree, a greater number has been tions, where so many persons are interested, as Kent, about fourteen miles from London. The discovered by the telescope, than the naked in this instance, either in endeavouring to pro-object, as we understand, was to ascertain the eye can discern in the whole vault of heaven; cure the choice of particular grounds, or the situation of the Noviomagus of the Imperial and yet there is ground for the belief that the sale of spurious works. Itinerary, which is there placed by some whole of these millions and millions of stars Friends to every Institution for the diffusion writers." Whatever other curious facts may would melt into a soft tint of light, if supposed of knowledge and the improvement of science, be deduced from the excavations made, they to be contemplated from some remote point of we have to announce, and we do so with much have led to the unquestionable discovery of space. The galaxy (to which belongs several pleasure, that the London University com- the remains of buildings, one of which is prostars of the first, second, and other magni- mences its useful career on Wednesday next, bably a Roman tomb. This is a circular wall, tudes), the cluster in which our sun is placed, when the lectures for the first session are to be supported by six buttresses, the outward diaif viewed from the bright nebula in the hand commenced by Mr. Charles Bell. Those an-meter of which circle measures thirty feet. of Perseus, would probably appear as an assem-nounced for a cycle of six succeeding days, be- The wall itself is three feet and a half in thickblage of telescopic stars, ranged behind each ginning with Wednesday, Oct. 1, and ending ness, and is composed of flints, with layers of other in boundless perspective. Were we to Tuesday, Oct. 6, (Sunday being, of course, a day tiles turned up at the edges, and so fashioned pursue our flight to that in the girdle of of rest), are all connected with medical instruc-at the ends as to fit one upon the other. Close Andromeda, it would diminish to a milky tion, and intrusted to several very able men, to this circular building an oblong square nebulosity, and, still further to extend our whose names must carry much weight with chamber, about twelve feet in length, has been ideal flight, we should indistinctly perceive it them. We shall make it our business to attend also completely exposed to view; and at a short as dimly revealed, its light being nearly to these proceedings sufficiently to be able to distance from the latter, a stone coffin was blended with the surrounding gloom, like those record the opening of so important an under- found deposited in the chalk soil, at about uncertain apparitions which are only occa- taking. eight feet below the surface of the ground. sionally seen in the field of view of a powerful At present we have to observe, that during The present examination has been carried telescope, when the air is refined and serene. the course of the last month the progress to- on by four or five gentlemen, members of the How grand is the consideration of the ple- wards completion of such parts of this fine Antiquarian Society, from some of whom, no nitude of space!-no awful void, no dread building as will be wanted at the commence-doubt, a more detailed account than the few vacancy, no dreary solitude: incessant streams ment of these lectures has been most rapid. particulars we have been able to collect, may of light, from myriads of systems, intersecting The lecture-rooms required by the professors of be expected. In digging, several pieces of each other in every direction, and bearing to anatomy, surgery, medicine, materia medica, fresco painting were thrown up, and innuthe boundless realms of creation evidences of and chemistry, are finished; and the arrange-merable fragments of ancient pottery; a few creative power, benevolent design, and uni- ments of these rooms, and of the professors' of these are of dark unbaked clay, with the versal dominion. private rooms and museums, with those in the rudest mouldings. Other fragments, of a deep Deptford. basement of the building for the accommoda- red colour, are not inferior in texture to the tion of the students in the intervals between best Wedgwood manufacture, and exhibit most the different lectures, including common rooms, exquisite forms, ornamented by a leafy pattern dining rooms, kitchens, &c. &c. appear to be in relief. One or two bits of tawny-coloured admirably suited to the purposes for which ware present a very singular appearance, rethey are intended. The splendid apartments sembling mosaic-small and beautiful gravelly meant for the library and museum are in a pebbles, about the size of seed pearl, being sprinkled on, and imbedded in, certain parts of the surface, probably to form some design. Upwards of a hundred fragments of pottery, with two or three tusks, and the handle of a sword or dagger, which were also turned up, are in the possession of Mr. Crofton Croker, with whom the investigation originated. J. T. B. LITERARY AND LEARNED. KING'S COLLEGE: LONDON UNIVERSITY. A STATEMENT has found its way into all the We ought, perhaps, to notice what may be considered an apology for the erroneous stories which have got into the newspapers. Persons, pretending to be authorised by the Committee, The nebula in Andromeda is visible to the unassisted eye, and has very much the appearance of a comet, for which there is reason to believe it has recently been mistaken. Published somewhere in Paternoster Row, and sold, we hear, to a large extent, owing to placards posted all over town, headed King's College, &c. &c. The same, or for the Instruction of the Students of the King's College, other, parties caused to be announced the "First Book by order of a Committee," which is a rank imposition, the Committee having ordered nothing of the sort whatever, nor taken any definitive step beyond what we have recorded.-Ed. L. G. The Student's First Instructor" is " said to be the production of the venerable and talented [Irish] Bishop of London," forsooth. The Bishop of London has, we fancy, something else to do than write school-books!!Ed. L. G. The Tumulus where these discoveries have been made, is situated at the foot of a considerable mound, called the War Bank, on the farm of Keston Court, belonging to Mr. Smith, and adjacent to the demesne of Holwood, formerly the seat of Mr. Pitt. The remarkable entrenchments in that demesne, and slightly to be traced on Keston Common, are well known to antiquaries and others by the name of Caesar's Camp, and a small spring near the road (the source of the river Ravensbourne) as Caesar's Well. But the War Bank appears to have escaped general notice, if we except a paper on the subject, by Mr. Kempe, published about twelve or fourteen years since. Nothing, however, in the way of examination was done until the present time, although several relics have been, at different periods, accidentally discovered; and the progress of the plough was constantly interrupted by striking against walls and foundations in the adjacent fields. From a recent respectable lithographic publication, by Henry Warren (of which see notice in the Literary Gazette), illustrative of the scenery of the Ravensbourne, accompanied by descriptive letter-press, we are tempted to make the following extract. But Mr. War-jan austere judge, we have the king of jolly | L. Sharpe; "The Blind Piper," engraved by ren's work would have pleased us better if he topers before us, as when had had the candour to acknowledge how much he was indebted to Mr. Kempe's notice of the antiquities of the War Bank; and we must remark, that he seems implicitly to follow the conjecture of that gentleman, that the Roman Noviomagus, or new city, was built. upon the site of a British town. The grave lord keeper led the brawls, And seals and maces danced before him. Mary, Dowager Empress of Russia; Nicholas Alexander, Heir to the Russian Throne. H. C. Shenton, from a drawing by L. Clen. nell; View on the Ganges," engraved (exquisitely) by E. Finden, from a drawing by Joseph Goodyear, from a picture by C. R. W. Daniell, R.A.; “ Alice," engraved by Leslie, R.A.; "Constancy," engraved by F. J. Portbury, from a picture by P. Stephanoff; "Fathime and Euphrosyne," engraved by Engraved by T. Wright, from Pictures by S. Davenport, from a picture by H. Corbould "Gibson, Somner, and Stillingfleet, have G. Dawe, R.A. Colnaghi and Co. placed the Noviomagus of Antoninus here (at THESE engravings, although of a miniature "Frolic in a Palace," engraved (very finely) because it is not on the line of the Watling-we have no doubt that they possess a strong Keston). This has been opposed principally or medallion size, are very ably executed; and by F. Engleheart, from a drawing by A. E, street way: but on reference to the Itinerary resemblance to the various originals. There of Antoninus, we shall find that, to take in is an exceedingly pleasing expression in the Noviomagus, it was necessary that the tra- countenance of the Empress; and the Empress veller should go considerably out of that direct Mary's features have a striking resemblance to road to the sea ports; for in ITER. II. à those of our own King. Were his Majesty Vallo ad Portum Ritupas,' we find this ar-pleased to masquerade it in the wig of Charles the Second, the resemblance would be very curious. rangement: 'Londinium. Noviomagum, m. p. x. Vagniacim, m. p. xviii. Forget-me-not.-Mr. Ackermann undoubt engraved by H. C. Shenton, from a picture by Chalon, R.A.; and "The Faithful Guardian," A. Cooper, R.A.; all of which possess considerable merit. Friendship's Offering. It is really surpris. ing to see the efforts that are making by the various proprietors and publishers of the little annual works, which have become so much the fashion during the last three or four years, to rival one another in excellence. The embel lishments which are to decorate the next vo Making the distance from London to Roches-edly possesses a great advantage over his com-lume of "Friendship's Offering" are most of ter, the ancient Durobrivis, thirty-seven miles; deprived, in having been the first to introduce T. Bone, engraved by W. Le Petit, is a rich petitors, and one of which he will not easily be them admirable. "La Frescura," painted by whereas, in ITER. III. à Londinio ad Por-into this country the elegant description of and elegant composition. tum Dubrim,' as likewise in ITER. IV. à publications generally entitled "Annuals." "Campbell Castle," Londinio ad Portum Lemanis,' we have the But he is a man of too much good sense and E. Goodall, reminds us of one of the finest propainted by G. Arnald, A.R.A., engraved by distance direct twenty-seven miles only. A experience to trust to that circumstance alone viomagus, and Maidstone, determined by Cam-ingly, we find him making great exertions to painted by E. Landseer, A.R.A., engraved by circuitous route, taking in this place as No-for a continuance of his success; and, accord-ductions of Wilson and Woollett, seen through a diminishing glass. "Hours of Innocence," den and others to be Vagniacæ, in the way to render his little volume deserving of the public. A. Wright. Durobrivim or Rochester, would occupy these patronage, for its intrinsic merits. We have Full of animation and chaten miles of extra distance. It may be sup-lying before us proofs of the plates which are J. Stephanoff, engraved by J. Romney. Feracter. "The Rival Suitors,' painted by posed, that the way from London to this place to embellish the next "Forget-me-not ;" and male coquetry exquisitely displayed. În subwas by a straight road, corresponding with the they are so beautiful that we must notice a via of the Romans, to the eastward of Lewis-few of the most striking." The Proposal," jects of this description Mr. Stephanoff seems ham, by Milk-street and Sundridge, in the engraved by W. Humphrys, from a drawing painted by A. E. Chalon, R.A., engraved by to luxuriate. "La Fiancée de Marques," parish of Bromley, to a woody spot eastward by J. Stephanoff, which must be recollected William Humphrys. Graceful and attractive. of the before-mentioned works, where are some with pleasure by all who visited the last exremains of several smaller banks. hibition of the Society of Painters in Water- J. Martin. A solemit and magnificent effect "Glen,-Lynden," designed and engraved by "In furtherance of the opinion of those who colours. Mr. Humphrys has been highly sucplace the Noviomagus, or, according to Ptolemy, cessful in retaining the expression of the ori- by J. Wood, engraved by E. Finden. Beautiof chiaroscuro. Cupid and Psyche," painted Neomagus, at Holwood Hill, it may be re-ginal; the delight of the fair enslaver, the fully composed. The repose of the god of love, marked, that from the name Neo magus, or affectionate congratulations of her mother and and the surprise and delight of the enamoured new city, there most probably existed one her friend, and the jealous agony of her rival.older, as in the case of Nimeguen in Holland, The Idle School-boy," engraved by W. Fin- Psyche, as she gazes on his youthful form, are which was a city of the Batavians before the W. F. Witherington, from a sketch by Lieutperfect. "The Cove of Muscat," painted by birth of Christ, called Oppidum Batavorum; col. Johnson, C.B., engraved by T. Jeavons. but being burnt during the wars with the A highly picturesque representation of this Romans, that people, when rebuilt, called it celebrated Arabian port.-Besides the plates Neomagus. So likewise the two cities which which we have thus briefly noticed, the volume bore that ancient name in Normandy." contains an elegant "Presentation Plate," en Since writing the foregoing, it is with great den, from a drawing by H. Thomson, R.A. regret we learn, that both the stone coffin and Eddystone Lighthouse," engraved by R. graved by J. W. Cook, from a design by H. the walls of the buildings have been much injured by the idle curiosity of the neighbouring rustics, who crowd to the spot only to destroy these interesting remains. We most sincerely hope that speedy measures may be taken for their further development and preservation. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. One Cheer more! Prowett. Printed by The Wallis, from a drawing by S. Owen. seen. BIOGRAPHY. R. P. BONINGTON. Corbould. "The Will," painted by W. Kidd, The Warning,' engraved by J. Mitchell; A. W. Warren; “The Parting," painted by painted by A. Cooper, R.A., engraved by B. R. Haydon, engraved by J. Romney; and It is admirably engraved." Marcus The Minstrel Boy," engraved by A. DunCurtius," engraved by H. Le Keux, from a drawing by J. Martin. The minuteness and can, from a painting by C. R. Leslie, R.A. the multiplicity of the details in this exquisite little print are absolutely miraculous. It is necessary to use a glass of a strong magnifying power in order fully to appreciate them. They IT is with great sorrow we have to record the A LITHOGRAPHIC portrait of Lord Eldon in are, however, not allowed to interfere with the death of this young but eminent artist, whose the act of cheering with his glass, as at the general effect, which is exceedingly grand.-pictures have of late years attracted so much memorable Pitt Club dinner, where the noble Cottage Kitchen," engraved by J. Romney, admiration, and who bid so fair to be one of bacchanalian called for "One Cheer more." from a drawing by W. F. Witherington. A the most distinguished ornaments which the Though we do not approve of handing down scene of rustic comfort and content, which, native school of England ever produced. Richard eminent men to posterity in such undignified though very pleasingly depicted, is, we fear, Parkes Bonington was born on the 25th of aspects, it must be allowed, that this picture not very common." Vicenza," engraved by October, 1801, at the village of Arnold, near is true to the circumstances of the case. The Freebairn, from a drawing by S. Prout. The Nottingham; where his father was engaged, empty glass is evidently in chancery; and the sparkling clearness of Mr. Prout's pencil has we believe, in some of the manufacturing or hilarious countenance of the ex-chief of that here been very happily imitated by Mr. Free- mercantile pursuits general in that part of the mighty court is expressive of intense pleasure bairn's graver. Besides the prints we have country. At the early age of three years he -the dark eye glistening, and the mouth mentioned, there are "Ellen Strathallan," discovered a very extraordinary attachment to wrought into a most jovial smile. Instead of lengraved by J. Agar, from a picture by Miss the fine arts, which was principally evinced by his sketching almost every object that presented | which he admirably displayed his knowledge of lovers of the fine arts will join in this common itself to his observation. But he went even colour and composition, and his great attention grief; for except, perhaps, in Harlowe, there farther, and not unfrequently ventured upon to costume. This picture, whether owing to has been no such ornament of our native school designs; some specimens of which precocious its being unseen, for it was upon the floor, or cut off in early prime, and in the full effulefforts are still in the possession of his parents. to want of taste in the patrons and lovers of gence of spreading fame. Overwhelmed with They were chiefly drawn in pen-and-ink, with painting, is yet, we learn, in the possession of the number of commissions which poured in surprising accuracy, and illustrative of history, the artist's parents. We trust that his Majesty upon him in consequence of his rising reputa which, from the moment our infant artist was will be its immediate purchaser: it would be tion, he seems to have viewed the accumulacapable of thought, became his favourite study ill bestowed in any other hands. As a con- tion of employment with dismay: success was and research. We ought also to notice, that trast to the foregoing, we may remark, that the proximate cause of his fatal malady. His his sketches of marine subjects (in which he the first time he exhibited in Paris, his draw-nerves became deeply affected, and a rapid afterwards shone so conspicuously) were, beyond ing was sold the moment the exhibition decline ensued, which in four months prodescription, wonderful both for correctness and opened; and for the next (a marine subject) strated his strength to the tomb. His latest efneatness. These productions completely con- he received the gold medal, at the same time fort was to travel from Paris to London, where firmed his father's desire to take every oppor- that Sir Thomas Lawrence was decorated with he arrived last week, to consult Mr. St. John tunity of leading him to the arts as a profes- the order of the legion of honour, and Mr. Long; but that gentleman declared him to be sion; and he accordingly continued to direct Constable and Mr. Fielding were also liberally beyond all human aid; and he died at ten his attention to the works of the best masters; awarded medals of gold. o'clock, on the 23d of September, Tuesday last. but, above all, to Nature, the mother, nurse, Subsequently to the period alluded to, Mr. His closing hours were perfectly calm; and and guide of true genius. Thus cherished, Bonington undertook a tour to Italy, from he was in full possession of his reason almost to when Richard was not more than seven or which country he brought back some splendid the end. On Monday his remains are to be eight years of age, he made some drawings specimens of his abilities;-his studies from interred; and, as we have mentioned, the from old buildings situated at Nottingham, nature literally breathing the atmosphere of president and other members of the Royal which surpassed every thing he had before the scenes so faithfully and beautifully repre- Academy have proposed to pay a tribute of done ; and about the same time he took a sented. It was his intention, had his life respect to his memory, by following his body more decided turn for marine subjects, which been spared, to have painted a series of pictures to the grave. bent of mind appears never afterwards to have similar to the Ducal Palace, exhibited this forsaken him. year at the British Gallery, Pall Mall! SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. (NO. II.) At the age of fifteen his parents journeyed It affords us a melancholy satisfaction to to Paris, feeling assured that the facilities for reflect, that from the first small work which study afforded by that capital were much more Mr. Bonington exhibited in his native coun- IT will appear from these slight sketches, drawn important than any which could elsewhere be try to the very last, we have invariably felt from statements of actual life, that there is no attained. Upon his arrival there, application and expressed the same admiration of his station, however high, which can escape the was made for permission to draw in the genius which is here embodied in a memoir penalties incurred by a departure from the Louvre; and the gentlemen who conducted over his premature grave. He was, indeed, a paths of rectitude and virtue. After having that department, astonished beyond measure child of nature; and his acute and sensitive undertaken this task, however, we find it beset at the examples of the young English painter's temperament too soon wore out the mortal by greater difficulties than we were aware of; skill, instantly, and in the most flattering mansion in which its exhausting operations were and shall not, we fear, be able to execute our manner, granted the boon required. Here, performed as in the alembic of the chemist, original view. Instead of writing to hold up a again, we cannot render too much praise to which throws off the inestimable produce, but beacon light to guide the erring and irresolute his anxious father for the assiduity and judg-perishes itself in the devouring flame. His in the right road, we find ourselves likely to be ment with which he cultivated his son's talents. mode of preparing for a picture was, after mistaken as the apologists for vice and crimiHe took infinite pains to point his attention making an elaborate sketch for the outline and nal indulgence. But if our readers will go to the best specimens of the Italian and Fle- detail, to study the local colour most accu-along with us, and separate, as we do, facts mish schools; and it must be added, that his rately; and here he never forgot to catch the from persons, we are satisfied we may, at least docile and enthusiastic pupil profited nobly by peculiarities of the various groups of figures to a certain extent, fulfil our purpose in the his invaluable advice. And while thus en- that frequented the spot selected for his pencil. true spirit in which it was conceived. gaged he met with many encouraging circum- It is unnecessary to particularise his works, Where, we would say, is real happiness to be stances to cheer him in his labours :-strangers, which have been from time to time seen in found, when we contemplate the position of for instance, who, on visiting the Louvre, and London exhibitions, and which are now in the the greatest subject in England, as it is laid being struck with his performances, purchased possession of the Duke of Bedford, the Mar- open by these pamphlets? Is the highest place them at the prices demanded. quess of Lansdowne, Countess de Grey, Mr. the place of ease, of enjoyment? Alas, no! it He very soon after became a student of the Vernon, and Mr. Carpenter, the latter of is only the more exposed, and the broader mark Institute, and also drew at M. Le Baron Gros's whom has two of his greatest works of the for trouble to assail. The Prime Minister of atelier. It was about this period, when not Canaletti school. His disposition (we are as- Britain the conqueror and military hero, occupied at the Institute or at the baron's sured by every one who knew him) was noble, whose glory will go down to the latest pos gallery, that he made many extraordinary generous, and benevolent in the extreme; and terity, is not exempt from the most painful drawings of coast scenery; particularly some his filial affection was a remarkable trait in annoyances and afflictions. As if the political representing fish-markets, with groups of his character. His parents have, indeed, lost sphere had not its superabundance of cares and figures, and for which he at all times found a in him a son of sons: he was their only sorrows-as if the almost defection of the very ready sale. We should not omit to mention, child, their pride in life, and their irreparable high party with whom he has hitherto so corthat his study from the figure was exceedingly bereavement in death. His friends, too, have dially acted, were not enough of vexation,—we good; though, were it requisite to define his to lament one whom they warmly loved and, see here almost every thing that can distress forte, we should certainly say, that amid all in short, we never heard more sincere and an individual in more private circumstances of the diversity of his unbounded talents, marine heart-felt regrets expressed for any individual, life brought to embitter the lot of this exalted pieces were at once his favourites and chef- than we have heard from all who claimed his personage. Lord Westmeath unhesitatingly d'œuvres. Yet we are almost unwilling to intimacy or regard. The public and the imputes to him his domestic infelicity; and adhere to this opinion, when we recollect that his own nephew complains loudly of his conone picture, of quite another class, which he which would be honourable to any school of art, the sub-duct towards him. Let the humbler orders in ject is treated in a most masterly manner. As a graphic exhibited this year at Somerset House; we illustration of the character and habits of the French society rejoice: allude to his Henry the Third of France, in monarch, it may be ranked with some of the well-described scenes by Sir Walter Scott in Quentin Durward, or any other of his historical novels." If you are to have fame, said Dr. Wolcot, speaking of Opie, "you must stay till you've been dead a hundred years." The Royal Academy are not quite so dilatory with regard to poor Bonington; for though they pushed his admirable work into an obscure corner, three months ago, they are now magnanimously pressing forward to give him, as far as they are concerned, a public funeral!!-Out upon such conduct! Respecting this picture, in our Exhibition criticism, Literary Gazette, No. 591, May 17, we thus expressed ourselves, complaining of the scandalously bad light in which it was hung: Why is the pain of stooping till one's back is nearly broken, to be inflicted as the price of the pleasure of looking at this able performance?-a performance which it would have done credit to the judgment of the Academy, had they placed it in the best situation the rooms afford. [In a note-" The mantel of the Great Room would have been the proper place for this picture."] Besides possessing a harmony of colouring * His last sketch, we believe, was done for Mr. Sharpe, and is to be engraved in the Anniversary: it consists of two female figures in a picturesque landscape. It is surely better to be lowly born, This is stated to have been brought on by the too copious bleedings of the French physicians, to reduce the fever. † See a Letter by the Duke of Newcastle to Lord Kenyon, just published, in which his Grace alludes to the Premier's not going fully to that extent thought vitally essential to the Protestant constitution by his friends and supporters. It has been most ungallantly said, that" there preceding Lady Westmeath's departure from that the Tree will, ere long, be acknowledged never was a mischief without a woman in it;" my house, that if I would go abroad for two and extolled as a first-rate comic actress. Perand very irreverently added, "seldom any years, &c. &c. he would answer for it, all haps she may; but why do you call her the without a priest." In these cases it is very would be right, and that there would be no Tree? Only to distinguish her from A. or obvious that the proverb is, at least, sooth so difficulty in procuring a diplomatic situation Anne. far as the female part of the innuendo is con- for me, to induce me to go?" It is not the cerned; and partially so, if we look at several first time that pretty wives have, both in prose reverend gentlemen's intermixture with the and poetry, been blamed as the causes of their Wellesley trials: for example, Mr. Pitman and husbands' good fortunes; but we do not see Mr. de Crespigny. why Lord W. should so strongly designate this as an insidious offer," for rejecting which he is persecuted to death." Why is Miss F. H. Kelly's personification of Valerie inferior to that of Mdlle. Mars? Because one plays it with her eyes shut, and the other with her eyes open. The last of the very bad.-Why is Major Smith, when he has two sheriff's-officers at his door like some tea-kettles? Because he's block't in.. Why is a short child like an unfinished story? Because it's not all. When is a good joke the same as a bad one? Why is the "Green-eyed Monster" at the Haymarket, like a thump in the mouth? Because it's a hit. "In June 1819 (says Lord W.) my wife and I were living in London. She wished to leave me, and I wished her not. She had laid her But for this paper we have enough of these plan, and employed every species of insulting imputations and assertions. There is one arguand unworthy device to induce me to leave my ment we would draw from one of their features: house and abandon my children-to make it-Lord Westmeath is accused of behaving in appear as my act. My own servants were a harsh, ungentlemanlike way to his lady-When it's a-miss. taught to insult me; and (what must be quite Captain Bligh of even the brutality of striking amusing to those who now hear this for the blows. Now, without inquiring whether the first time) one of them is the person whom I charges are true or imaginary, we will take it sent a constable to turn out, rather than inter-upon ourselves to say, that though a woman, fere myself to do so; yet this is the single, out of respect to herself, ought not to be propositive, and only authenticated act of imputed voked to the worst means of revenge, there is violence, which it is assumed made it unsafe nothing on earth so despicable in a man as the for my wife to remain under her husband's barbarity of using violence to a woman. It protection." seems almost to absolve them from every contract entered into as civilised beings; and it is too much to expect propriety from human nature so outraged. And thus comes the melancholy oblivion of self in the desire for revenge; and of the fairest and best of created beings it may truly be said, To this ex-parte picture of connubial bliss, his Lordship goes on to add "The Duke of Wellington was next selected to use his diplomatic talents to induce me to quit my house. This effort failed; and his Grace having assumed a tone of dictation for which I did not think that place a proper field, I compelled him to take his leave. I was determined he should visit my wife no more in my house; she left my roof the next day, and has ever since remained separated from me." In vain with tears her loss she may deplore- DRAMA. DRURY LANE ANNOUNCES, with a loud voice, that it will Though there may be some novelty in hear-open on Wednesday with "Young Hamlet;" ing of the first field our mighty captain was Hamlet, Young, his first appearance there ever compelled to leave, this statement is these five years. A Mr. Aitken, from Edinonly valuable as a lesson shewing the extreme burgh, is the Horatio; and Polonius (as well as peril of interfering between man and wife in Simpson and Co, the farce) brings forward a matrimonial quarrels. His Grace's usual pru- deserving favourite, at this house, Mr. Terry. dence seems to have forsaken him in this in- We observe that the performances are to be stance, and having forgotten or despised the continued nightly; for Thursday has the Cure thousand warnings on record against such a for the Heart-ache, with Liston, Jones, E. Tree, Quixotic action, he now experiences the inva- and a strong comic cast: Friday has John riable result, and learns that all the power in Bull, with a Dennis Brulgruddery from Edinthe world cannot save him from the fate of burgh, Mr. Weekes; and Saturday has Rob meddlers in delicate matters-so called, we be- Roy and Comfortable Lodgings, with Mr. Harlieve, from being always extremely indelicate. ley. This will shew that the corps dramatique As every thing to the jealous mind is proof as is powerful at Old Drury; but it will appear strong as holy writ, the noble Marquess is no far more stouter, when we notice that W. Farsooner infected with the green-eyed monster ren secedes from Covent Garden, that Braham than he sees in every motion of the illustrious is re-engaged, and that Mrs. Bunn returns. Duke some corroboration of his suspicions. To Mr. Cooper is the stage manager, Mr. T. Cooke a bystander, it might appear very natural that the director and leader of the band. his Grace taking part with Lady Westmeath, considering her to be wronged or oppressed, should serve her friends and supporters in this Or Covent Garden the announcement is also struggle. Not so her lordhe denounces an for the 1st; and it is stated that the dramatic appointment in the Ordnance to a discharged corps has been strengthened by the addition gardener of his, the husband of the house- of provincial performers of the greatest celekeeper ousted by the constable; and even the brity. The Grieves are getting forward some subsequent marriage of two ladies' maids, as splendid scenery; and a magnificent Shakedecided evidence of the Duke of Wellington's sperian new act drop-curtain has been painted improper interest in his family concerns. In by Roberts. The opening play is As You Like the same way, a way that it is possible might. Thursday the Barber of Seville. C. Kemdistort the most innocent and benevolent deeds ble, Kean, and Mde. Vestris, are named in the into the rankest offences (be it remembered bill. Miss Kelly, Miss Goward, and Keeley, that we are giving no opinions, but endeavour. are to be remembered from last year. ing to educe moral good out of moral evil)-in Green and Miss Forde from Bath, Mr. Bianchi the same way the Marquess turns upon the Taylor, Miss Byfield, Miss Pindar, and other Duke an offer of apparently great kindness. musical performers, are also announced. Mr. He says, "Did or did not [a bad manner, by Fawcett is the stage manager. the by, of putting a proposition] the Duke of Wellington personally tell me, immediately • William Mackenzie, storekeeper at Feversham, and since transferred to Ireland. COVENT GARDEN. VARIETIES. Mr. Scrap of a Theatrical Conversation.-You may say what you like, but I am convinced Roman Ruins near the Hague.-An English gentleman, who is travelling in Holland, in one of his recent letters says, "We have this morning been to visit the remains of an immense Roman building or buildings, which have been recently discovered near Voorburg. Innumerable vases of the most beautiful descriptions, Roman rings with inscriptions, ornaments and coins, some of which date before the birth of Christ, have been excavated; all which leads to the supposition, that some calamity, either occasioned by fire, inundation, or otherwise, has thrown down and destroyed the whole buildings. In one of the cellars a perfect skeleton has been found, which further strengthens the opinion: it is the most remarkable object that has yet been discovered. The right arm is placed on the heart, and the whole figure exhibits an attitude of the most perfect agony, as if death had been produced by the heavy pressure of a great weight of stones. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the excavation be a Roman village or one extensive building, destroyed by some accident. The grounds have been purchased by government, and upwards of one hundred men are constantly at work." Fall of Houses. Another accident, with loss of lives, has just occurred in Exeter-street, Strand, by the fall of some old houses. Surely, we again repeat, it is worth while to have some commission, as in Paris, at the head of our district surveyors, to prevent these shocking fatalities. We were much struck on beholding the ruins in Exeter-street; for we recollected, that it was in an adjoining house, of the same frail description, that the genius of Lough, our admirable sculptor, was deve loped, not much more than a year ago. was in just another of these rotten tenements that he composed and constructed his colossal group of Milo, which reached from the floor to the ceiling of his poor apartment. It is almost wonderful that his labour did not, like a living Samson, pull all down together. It Poisoning. Several experiments have lately been made in France on the use of ligatures and bleeding in cases of poisoned wounds. Proceeding upon the principle established by M. Majendie, who succeeded in entirely sus pending absorption in a dog, by producing an artificial plethora, with the assistance of an abundant infusion of tepid water into the veins, the following experiment was tried. Three grains of the alcoholic extract of nux vomica having been put upon a wound made in the foot of a young dog, a ligature was placed above the humero-cubital articulation of the poisoned limb. As much water was slowly injected by the jugular vein as the animal could bear without great suffering. A vein was then opened in the poisoned limb below the ligature, and several ounces of blood ADVERTISEMENTS. Connected with Literature and the Arts. were drawn from it, and injected into the MR CHAIRING the MEMBERS, (Mock Election, King's [R. HAYDON'S NEW PICTURE of An Introductory Lecture to his course will be given by each Physiology, Surgery, and Clinical Surgery, by Charles Bell, Nature and Treatmen: of Diseases, by John Conolly, M.D.; A young Russian nobleman is now at Merida, in Spain, making interesting discoveries in the ruins of the old Roman amphitheatre. He has already succeeded in obtaining some beautiful vases; and is about to transport from that place two statues of colossal dimensions, which have for the last fifty years been suffered to remain on the outside of the building in a mutilated Monday, the 6th. condition. LITERARY NOVELTIES. We hear that a Pocket Cyclopedia is in preparation of great novelty and boldness of design. This work is announced to be composed of complete treatises on every branch of literature and science, freed from the difficulties of technical and mathematical language; so as to be at once a classical work, and an ample library for the polite and well-informed. 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