of Fredolfo to Wallenberg's taunt on the It hath a charm the stranger knoweth not, The words they speak are of the glorious dead; VARIETIES. An importation of Tibet sheep, from the hair of which Cachemire shawls are made, has arrived in France, and affords matter both for the speculations of the political economist and the jests of the wits. One of the latter says, that the Parisian husbands now sooth their impatient wives by telling them to be easy, and they shall soon have a Cachemire; thus emulating the story of an ancient Seigneur, whose family being wofully off for linen, he gave orders to sow a field with lintseed, at which the young people burst out a laughing, and he obWe do not learn that the Thebe and Gri-served "How pleasant this is! you see per, the vessels intended for the new Baf- how the little humorists chuckle at the fin's Bay Expedition, are yet on their way. prospect of shirts!" As they will proceed at once to the Western Coast, the delay may not be so material, but we should imagine that two or three small vessels (of the tonnage of Dover Byeboats for example) might be advantageously employed to explore the larger openings, and be picked up on the return of the principal ships. The French newspapers were freed from the censorship on the 1st of this month. Speaking of Sir Hudson Lowe, Buonaparte lately observed, "He is the most ungrateful of men; had it not been for me, nobody would have known him." A Bust of the Duke of Wellington, cast by Westmacott, from gems taken at Waterloo, has been placed on a column erected in memory of that glorious victory, on the New Alameda, at Gibraltar. BEGGARS' STATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS.-These stations are numerous, in particular between Louvain and St. Tron, on both sides of the road. They consist of little huts, and are made in the hedges. Some of them have even a certain degree of neatness. Here the beggars and their families encamp during the whole of the fine season, and at times they may be seen sitting quite at their ease on chairs, with little tables before them. They are all thoroughbred rogues in their way, and imitate allpossible bodily infirmities, so as completely to deceive the most attentive observer. Each of these places is family property, and generally descends regularly from father to son. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. MAY. Thursday, 6-Thermometer from 41 to 64. Friday, 7.-Thermometer from 42 to 66. Saturday, 8.-Thermometer from 48 to 70. Barometer from 30, 21 to 30, 24. Wind EbS. .-Clouds generally passing, and at times overcast.-At 7 this morning a very fine halo was formed, strongly coloured, and continued till near two in the afternoon; perfect only till 10; but afterwards, though not perfect, was much deeper in its colour; and from 11 to 12 a second halo appearance was sent forth, forming an angle rather less than the one mentioned April 7th. Sunday, 9.-Thermometer from 40 to 72. Barometer from 30, 26 to 30, 29. Wind SE. and SW. -Morning and noon clear, afternoon and evening generally cloudy, with rain between 8 and 9. Monday, 10.-Thermometer from 44 to 68. Tuesday, 11.-Thermometer from 52 to 67. Latitude 51.37.32. N. THE USE OF a dead Wife.-A German Journal contains the following paragraph: -"The wife of a labouring man, in the neighbourhood of Stockholm, died some time ago, and the husband made the necessary preparations for her interment. He, however, deposited a block of wood in the coffin, instead of the corpse, which he conveyed, during the night, into a forest, that it might serve as a bait for wild beasts. By this horrible expedient he succeeded in B. Cornwall's beautiful Dramatic Poems, in our next. circumstance being made known, the man was arrested and carried before a Court of Justice; but, far from being intimidated, he claimed the reward offered for destroying mischievous animals. M. Gois, the celebrated French sculptor, has recently finished a design for a group, to be executed in marble, the subject of which is the Descent from the Cross. The group consists of six colossal figures, all remarkable for grandeur of expression: the figure of the Magdalen, in particular, is a most poetic representation of grief. This magnificent work, it is expected, will reflect high honour on the French School of Sculp-catching a wolf and two foxes. On the ture. It is intended as an altar-piece for the church of Sainte Geneviève.-French Journals. A new metal has, it is said, been dis covered in Styria: it is called Vestium. Several Roman urns were lately discovered in the district of Westervold, province of Gröningen, by a countryman, whilst labouring on some uncultivated ground. The urns are of various sizes; the largest contained the remains of ashes mingled with fragments of bones, and some had urns of smaller size within them. There is reason to expect that more antiques may be discovered by digging near the same spot. Some weeks ago, in another district of the same province, a kind of Roman tomb was discovered, containing urns made of some unknown substance. The city of Jerusalem forms the subject of a fine new Panorama at Paris, painted by M. Prevost. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. It is reported that the Letters from a Lady of Distinction just announced for publication, were written by the Countess of Spencer to her Niece, the late celebrated Duchess of Devonshire, shortly after her marriage. The author of those amusing Poems, the Banquet, Dessert, &c. proves to be Hans Busk, Esq. a gentleman well known in the upper circles. He has announced with his name a new poem, entitled The Vestriad, or the Opera, which, according to report, promises to afford a rich fund of entertainment to the lovers of the humorous. 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Also supplied by all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Stationers, in Town and Country, AND Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc. This Journal is supplied Weekly, or Monthly, by the principal Booksellers and Newsmen throughout the Kingdom; but to those who may desire No. 122. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. By 166. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1819. for our delight and wisdom. Fashion was Dramatic Scenes, and other Poems. PRICE 8d. his own miseries, nor the bitter calumnia- ANDREANA, GABRIELLO. (A Garden.) GAB. Away, AND. Keep your eye fix'd. AND. Well!-I was lying then, as I am now, He died with the rest, at last:-Then I GAB. Awoke ? AND, No, no. Would that I had: Now listen, love! Attentive too. GAB. I rest upon your words: You tell a dream so prettily. That when the last star died, a thundering sound And shrieks and syllables-in an unknown tongue. The next is in a more polished and SCENE I-A Street. 48 DUKE OF MILAN, LUDOVICA SFORZA. DUKE. And this proud Lady, was she chaste as fair? SFORZA. Pure as the flame that burnt on Dian's altar, And lovely as the morning.-Oh! she stood Like one of those bright shapes of fabling Greece, (Born of the elements,) which, as they tell, Woo'd mortals to their arms. A form more beautiful (Houri or child o' the air) ne'er glanced upon DUKE. What! have you done, my Lord? Art not content? Well, I could say for ever. soners Within its perfum'd gates, pearls more rich Than Cleopatra got from Antony: IONE. No, no. Lys. Yes, you will: And I will be your guard, my beauty: aye, IONE. No. Lys. Yes. IONE. Be not too sure, Lysander.-Foolish boy! A spirit of the element. Lys. You are A goddess to my gaze; and you shall be One of old Nereus' daughters, youth, and live Is where the mariner's plummet never sounded- And sparry caverns where the sea-maids hide, IONE. Believe 't, Lysander. But come as you have loved me long, have you O' nights by sparkling streams, and vow'd my Not framed a song for me? Have you not sung face Was clear as Dian's? LYS. Often-often IONE. Indeed! How bright it is! and like the glowworm's light Shines most, methinks, in darkness. Listen now; But 'tis a melancholy song: 'twas framed I swear I love thee, delicate Ione! Standest before me. I have seen thee come And, floating between me and the cloudless moon, vapours) Scarce dull'd the planet's brightness. And thou didst smile, and breathe upon my heart, As if to heal the scars of sorrow- To guide me through this solitary life, And earthly feelings never mingled with, But thou art gone And now I choose to wander when the winds I love to lie by waterfalls, And mark the sheeted silver roll away, And then at times I commune with thee; Ione is subdued by this song, which nymph of the wild loveliness "o' the we think of the true captivation for a forest forms." The Return of Mark Antony is a specimen of the spirit with which the writer can conceive the waywardness of con What did you call me ?-Ah! shame on you: scious and coquettish beauty. Antony Call me-Ione. LYS. Sweet Ione! Fair And beautiful Ione! oh, but cold. As your blue element, when the wintry moon has returned after his marriage with Octavia, and been chidden for his absence and inconstancy. He grows angry, and is soothed by the fascination of his Egyptian queen; but she perseveres in | between ; but every new traveller brings a strain of jealous tenderness. DOMITIUS ENters. CLEOP. Welcome to Egypt, sir. Domitius has Forgot his Egyptian colour; look! my lord. Take heed, sir; there is one I know who loves To see the sun upon you. DOMIT. Thanks, great queen. ladies Speak out, my lord: there's no one to offend. Oh! Isis, he forgets-he knows not which. Domitius, tell him of this creature; this attractive matter from these interesting countries, and we have at present several volumes on our table, from which we are persuaded we shall be able to extract much agreeable information. Of these, Colonel Fitz-Clarence and Lieutenant Heude are the most recent, and we only proceed according to the priority of publication in paying our devoirs first to the latter. Lieut. Heude also traversed parts, the natural curiosity of which was enhanced by circumstances of uncommon occurrence; and his route, which embraces Arabia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Koordistan, and Armenia, is not rendered the less remarkable from his having witnessed the decheance of a Pashaw, and journeyed from Bagdad with the mes senger carrying his head and a few others to Constantinople for the satisfacindeed the order of the day, and night tion of the Grand Seignor. Celerity was too, but still the march, however rapid, presented many objects worthy of obser With her dull blue eyes, and pretty milk white vation, and the Lieutenant seems to have face, On which he doated so. DOMIT. Nay, she was fair. But CLEOP. You said so, sir, before-I thank you. You were a youth then, were you not, my lord? Had never been in Egypt, where the skies Show'r down a summer colour on our cheeks, And fill the eyes with light. Now, can you boast Of Roman hearts like ours? DOMIT. No, madam, no. They make us run to catch 'em. Here the women Are kinder: much. CLEOP. I knew it. read and wrote as he ran. With regard to the latter, he has perhaps attempted to do it too well. Professing insufficiency, as a soldier from the age of fifteen, a plain style throughout would have been preferable to the occasional efforts at fine writing, which, though not entirely failures, cannot be called suc cessful. The author informs us that he found the Hindostanee language most useful on his varied way, and especially in We have already said that we had se-Koordistan. Previous to setting out, he lected those passages simply as evidences takes a view of Malabar, relates some of the peculiarity of the author's style. particulars of Hindoo devotées, and We might have found many others of seems earnest in his censure of the more palpable power and more touching" pigmy missionaries," who are trying interest, but for those we must refer to to convert these pain-enduring fanatics. the volume. Partial objections may be He left Mangalore on the 4th Octoraised to the obsoleteness of the phrase- ber 1816, for Bombay, which he reached ology and to the looseness of the metre, on the 16th, and thence sailed for Busbut if these are not forgotten after the sora on the 26th in an Arab vessel, the first page, or merged in the vigour and Fuzil Kureen of 350 tons, a crew of 50 richness of the poetry, we will acknow- Lascars, and 90 passengers, one-third ledge that we have formed a most erro-Persians, and the rest Arabs, Turks, neous conception of our own judgment, and of the taste of England. Jews, and Gentiles of every description. They made the Devil's Gap, on the Arabian Coast, by the 7th November, and A Voyage up the Persian Gulf, and a were becalmed within the bay for five Journey overland from India to Eng-days. A strange instance of chance conland, in 1817. By Lieut. William Heude, of the Madras Establishment. London 1819. 4to. pp. 250. Our reviews of Morier, Lieut-Colonel Johnson, and other travellers in the East, have made the readers of the Literary Gazette acquainted with the later accounts of "The Orient," and the land firming superstition is here narrated. A Turk of distinction among the passengers, the author says, Had attributed our ill-luck and detention to the vices and crimes of some unknown individual amongst our passengers or crew. The finger of the Prophet was on the evil one, and whilst he remained amongst us, uncleansed of his sins, no good, it seems, could be expected. A general ablution, therefore, had been proposed, at an early hour on the morning of the 12th. The sea filth than we could boast amongst us, was at hand to cleanse a greater load of though we were by no means deficient; and the experiment succeeded to admiration: an Arab and a Jew disappearing from our stern, almost at the moment that the breeze sprung up. The occurrence spoke for itself! Ish aut Allah," said a grave Turk, stroking his beard; "we have a fair wind; they must have been bad men." It called forth from the worthy ancient; and the only observation the accident within the day it was forgotten, even by those who had exerted themselves most strenuously in behalf of the unfortunate pair. was The breeze thus obtained brought them in a few hours to Muskat, where the author took, during their stay, a fruitless trip into the interior, which was unhospitable and barren. Muskat, resides in a palace near the sea, Saiid Ben Saiid, the present Imam of that was once the cathedral church of the Portuguese garrison. This Imam is a Prince of considerable importance, entirely independent of the Porte, and divides this part of Arabia with the Prince of Mocha and the Wahabees, though in unequal shares; his authority, generally speaking, extending to the province of Oman only. If we may trust report, he can bring 7000 men deeans, from the neighbourhood of Tatta. into the field, partly Belooches and SinIt is however as a naval power chiefly that Saiid Ben Saiid should rank amongst the surrounding tribes; the people of Rass al Kymer, who can bring some thousand horse into the field, having generally prov ed successful (as in the last war, when they that they have had. This navy consists of killed his brother) in the various encounters the Caroline, a frigate of 40 guns, and tolerably equipped; two large vessels, that were formerly Indiamen; and about 30 or 35 inferior craft. The pirates of the gulf are composed of various Arab tribes; the chief of these, the Joassmees of Rass el Kymer, being, however, intimately connected with the Wahabees, (a power already acknowledged) our government has felt reluctant to engage in hostilities, and hence arises the impunity they boast. Their fleet is said to consist of sixty large, and between eight and nine hundred vessels of a smaller size; with 18 or 19 thousand men on board. Their history reaches back to a very remote antiquity; as the empire of the pirate King, seizing (as described in the Koran of Ebn Hankal) on every valuable ship, is said to have been known prior to the deliverance from Egypt of the children of Israel. The Wahabees, in particular, first mentioned by Niebuhr, are also noticed as springing from the province of Nedsjed; where Moseillama, the great contemporary opponent of Mahomet, first propagated the doctrines of |