The writer then proceeds by recommending simplicity of diet; he quotes experiments from Dr. Adair to shew that duck or goose is less digestible than any other food; and from Drs. Hoffman, Young, Pye, Reynolds, Lyberkin, and Hunter, he shows the salatary effect of milk diet in cases of gont, dysentery, Andante, consumption, and diseases of the stomach. Cures of indigestion by a simple diet of beef and mutton; and several instances of restoration to health and vigour effected by vegetable food, and even by mere abstinence from sauces, wines, and strong liquors are given from Rush, Tissot, Engel, Parmentier, Mackenzie, and Priestley. The impropriety of giving wine to children is stated as follows:

"A late ingenious surgeon gave to one of his children a full glass of sherry every day after dinner for a week; the child was then five years of age, and had never been accustomed to wine: to another child, nearly of the same age, and under similar circumstances, he gave a large china orange for the same space of time; at the end of the week he found a very material difference. In the first, the pulse was quickened, and the heat increased, while the second had every appearance that indicated high health. He then reversed the experiment: to the first-mentioned child he gave the orange, and to the other the wine; the effects followed as before described;—a striking and demonstrative proof of the pernicious effects of vinous liquors on the constitutions of children in full health."

We conclude our abridgment of "J. O.'s" interesting letter, which has been kindly handed to us by Mr. Kaye of Liverpool, with the following extract:“ Dr. Mackenzie directs this simple and easy method of preventing impendent disease, frequently practised with good success, viz. that when a person finds himself indisposed, to go directly to bed, and there lie for one, two, or three days, until his complaints are removed, living all the while on water-gruel, or panado, for food, and on water or small negus, or white-wine whey, for drink. The gruel or panado may be made more or les substantial, according to circumstances. Though some may deride the simplicity of this prescription, they will find, where such food agrees with the stomach, and time can be spared to make the experiment, it will prove more beneficial than they imagine. The Dr. adds, I have often been told by a lady of quality, where circumstances obliged her to be a good economist, and where prudence and temperance preserved her health and senses to a great age, that she had kept herself ont of the hands of the faculty many years by this simple regimen.""

one the

co'd floor,

The nodding fid-dler

And I-a melancholy, single man-
Retired to mourn my solitary fate.-

I slept awhile; but o'er my slumbers ran
The sylph-like image of my blushing Kate.
I dreamt of mutual love and Hymen's joys,
Of happy moments and connabial blisses,
And then I thought of little girls and boys,
The mother's glances and the infants' kisses.
I saw them all, in sweet perspective, sitting
In winter's eve around a blazing fire,
The children playing and the mother knitting,
Or fondly gazing on the happy sire.

The scene was changed.-In came the Baker's bill:
I stared to see the hideous consummation
Of pies and puddings, that it took to fill
The bellies of the rising generation.
There was no end to eating-legs of mutton
Were vanquished daily by this little host;
To see them, you'd have thought each tiny glutton
Had laid a wager who could eat the most.

EXTRACTS, ETC.

The massy pudding smoked upon the platter,
The pond'rous sirloin rear'd its head in vain,
The little urchins kick'd up such a clatter,

That scarce a remnant e'er appeared again.
Then came the School bill: Board and Education
So much per annum; but the extras mounted
To nearly twice the primal stipulation,

And every little bagatelle was counted:
To mending tacks.-A new Homeri Ilias.-.
A pane of glass.-Repairing coat and breeches.-
A slate and pencil.-Binding old Virgilius.—
Drawing a tooth.-An opening draught and leeches.
And now I languished for the single state,

The social glass, the horse and chaise on Sunday,
The jaunt to Windsor with my sweetheart Kate,
And cursed again the weekly bills of Monday.
Here Kate began to scold,-I stampt and swore,
The kittens squeak, the children loudly scream;
And thus awaking with the wild uproar,

I thank'd my stars that it was but a dream.

[See note to Readers, page 84.]

BONAPARTE, TALLEYRAND, AND LORD WHITWorth.

The following is a translation of Bonaparte's instructions to Talleyrand :

"I received your letter at Malmaison. I desire that the conference (with Lord Whitworth) may not turn into talk-put on an air, cold, high, and even a little haughty.

"If the (British) note contains the word ultimatum, observe to him that this word includes the word warthat such a style of negociation is that of a superior towards an inferior. If the note does not contain that word, make him put it in, by observing to him, that we must know clearly and finally what we are about--that we are tired of this state of anxiety-that never shall they obtain from us what they obtained during the last years of the Bourbons-that we are no longer the same people who submitted to have an (English) commissary at Dunkirk—that if the ultimatum be postponed all will

be broken off.

Frighten him on the consequences of the postponement.

"If you cannot shake him, accompany him through the outward room, and just when you are about to quit him say But the Cape and the island of Gorée, have they been evacuated?' (which he knew they had).

Soften a little towards the end of the conference, and invite him to see you again before he writes to his court, in order that you may tell him the impression it has made upon me, which may be diminished by the assurance of the evacuation of the Cape and Gorée.""

This would not be the place to make any historical This relates to the conference of the 26th of April, 1803. It will be seen, in the papers laid before Parliament, that Lord Whitworth baffled Bonaparte's,, trick, by not delivering any 'note, and by confining himself to a VERBAL explanation of his former communications.'

observations on this very important document as connected with the rupture with France in 1803, nor shall we attempt to decide how far diplomacy may justify cellor Seguier said, two hundred years ago, "Qu'il y such tricks as the above paper prescribes. The Chanavoit deux sortes de conscience-l'une d'etat, qu'il falloit accommoder a la necessité des affaires : Pautre a nos actions particulieres." But under any circumstances a person who thinks himself justified in practising such falsehood and duplicity, has no right to charge such errors, in the grossest language, on two persons, one of whom was the instrument, and the other the object, of his own intended fraud.'—Q. Rev.

PORTRAIT OF A GRECIAN DOCTOR." His riding dress can scarcely be imagined without a drawing; but I have seldom seen a more grotesque figure than his, when he set out for the town of Leondari on that journey. His hat was not unlike that of a capuchin with band and large steel-buckle. His hair, which had not

a slouched brim, but the crown had a broad silk hat

been untied for months behind, showed that several attempts had been made to comb it, which had only succeeded in tearing out or breaking off locks which long robe of cloth, which once had been sky-blue, originally belonged to the queue. He wore a large and lined with thick fur, with a broad cape of the same.

Under this was a tunic of dark colours to conceal the

dirt, also reaching to the ground; beneath this, again, were other dresses altogether invisible, but forming a prodigious mass of inconvenient appurtenances, which when prepared for a journey were all thrust together,fur, pelisse, tunic, and all the rest into a tremendous pair of Turkish trowsers, composed of many yards of light-blue cloth, which being sewed together between he legs, as all Turkish trowsers are, in spite of an essay in one of the English newspapers to prove the contrary, were so much forced upwards by the saddle,

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that several inches of septennial cloth stockings were visible, between them and a huge pair of Turkish jackboots which had once been black."-Sir W. Gell.

HORSEMANSHIP OF THE GUANCHES.

you is very seldom, the Guanche arms himself with his two knives, and defends defends himself very courageously. The horse sees the danger of his master, and in place of galloping off, presents his chest to the enemy. He knows that if he turns away he will have From his youth the Guanche is nursed in ideas of no defender. His blood flows, but his courage never for one minute fails; he knows also that his master The exercise which he independance and activity. will not forsake him. If the tiger, exhausted by loves best is riding; and he piques himself on his skill in breaking in his steed. The plains through which he fatigue allows the horseman a single moment's respite, wanders feed an immense quantity of horses and wild it is all over with him; the laço, which is always mules. Along with the favorite weapon, fathers give ready at the saddle-bow is again laid hold of; and for a Guanche twice to miss his aim, is almost unex. their sons Tessons of skill and intrepidity. Mounted on ampled. Arago. › their well-trained coursers, they dart on a troop of wild horses, the laço is thrown, and one is caught; the others gallop off, and the captive, full of impatience, turns to recover his liberty, which is lost for ever. The Guanche is already dismounted; whirls another laço round him, which serves to strengthen the first, and throws it with skill round the legs of the captive, who falls, and must bear his conqueror. Without stirrups or bridle, merely with spurs and words of command, the Guanche masters the impatient animal, which paws the ground and darts away like a flash of lightening. He soon stops; indignant at bis burden, he prances and rolls in the dust, and the Guanche rolls along with him. Deceived in his expectation, he gets up fiercely, darts off again, and feels the merciless spur, till he is quite furious. He stops again, and looks round for some danger, to terrify his adversary; he hastens to it, traverses rocks, clears precipices, and swims the streams. At length, worn out with fatigue, he falls, and submits to the bridle. But it is not enough that he becomes obedient, and transports his master from one country to another: he must also brave the same

dangers with him, and second him in bis boldest

attacks.

Almost every animal takes to flight at the mere sight of a tiger; and his appearance has something in it peculiarly terrific for the horse. Yet is this animal here brought to look his foe in the face, and not to run off till a certain signal is given.

The Guanche sets out without the smallest supply of provisions; immense barren plains are before him, which only produce a few stalks, that serve for the nourishment of cattle. When the Guanche is hungry, he seeks after, and soon finds, innumerable herds of wild horses; he catches one of these animals, throws him down, cuts off a piece of his flesh with a knife, and restores him to liberty. He quenches his thirst at a spring; and then begins his chase after wild beasts. He calls aloud for them, and spurs on his horse towards

the monster he intends for a victim. The hoarse roar
of the tiger is heard,-there he stands and a terrible
combat begins. It is not force, but skill, which con-
quers. The Guanche whirls his laço; he speaks, he
calls aloud, he is ready for his enemy. His terrible
enemy, with his belly almost touching the ground, is
astonished to see any being awaiting his approach, and
provoking him; his eyes roll furiously, he opens his
vast jaws still red with the blood of his last victim;
and, indignant at finding an opponent, he seeks with
his eye for the place on which he means to spring.
The Guanche is all the time tranquil, firm, and pru-
dent, governing his astonished, but obedient courser
with his feet; he makes him retreat without turning
his face from the tiger, who follows him step by step
watching for a false movement.
this; he makes his horse rear; the tiger darts forward
and is caught; the horse springs away on his bind
legs with all his power, dragging the ferocious beast
after him. The Guanche turns round at times; and if
bis laço has caught only the neck, he flings a second,
which binds his legs; he is now the conqueror. He
dismounts, arms himself with two knives from his
boots, and his victim expires. Having finished his
day's work, he returns to Mont-Video, sells the skin
of the animal he has killed; caresses his horse, and
hastens to seek new danger.

The Guanche knows

You may easily suppose, however skilful these astonishing people may be, that the irregular springs of such an enemy as the tiger, may often enable him to escape the laço, and compel the Gaunche to engage in another species of combat more dangerous than the former. In such cases the horse plays the principal part, though the man makes the attack. When it happens that the laço has missed, which I can assure

THE PRINCE DE CONDE.-The Prince de Condé
acquired reputation in his youth.-Instances were
related of his courageous behaviour, at the battle of
It was said that
Artenbeck, in the seven years war.
on being requested to remove ten paces to the left, in
order to avoid the fire of a battery, which was making
horrid slaughter by his side, he replied to M. de Tou-
raille, I find none of these precautions in the history of
the Great Condé.

'He afterwards distinguished himself at the battle
of Minden, in 1759, charging the enemy at the head of
his reserve, over a piece of meadow, strewed with the
bodies of officers of the gendarmerie and carbineers.
His talents displayed themselves to still greater advan-
tage when he had a separate body of troops under his
command, with which he gained several advantages over
Louis XV. by way of
the Prince of Brunswick.
reward, gave him the enemy's cannon; and the Prince
of Brunswick, afterwards visiting him at Chantilly, and
not finding the guns there, the Prince de Condé having
had them removed out of sight, said, You were deter-
mined to conquer me twice-in war by your arms, and by
yonr forbearance in peace. The battle of Johannesberg
carried his reputation to its height alone, for with an
inferior reserve, he gained a complete victory over
Prince Ferdinand. He held his council of war in the
midst of a fire of musketry, and remained master of the
field of battle.-Mad. Campan.

us, and which were derived from a source than which there is none better entitled to credit in the Kingdom. From the language which we employed in communicating the intelligence, it must have been evident that the facts stated were vouched with some degree of doubt, though we very naturally fell into the sanguine and gratifying hopes they were so well calculated to excite. If in this we have run any risk of and friends of our gallant Countrymen engaged causing severe disappointment to the relations in the ardous service, we can only say that our own disappointment will be equally bitter; but one of the contradictions, insinuating that our motive was cruel towards these parties, is unworthy of any answer. We are not in the habit of inserting the slightest matters without as far as possible investigating their truth, and had we not had good grounds for the statement in question, we should not have ventured to publish it. We know not what reason may exist elsewhere for concealing or keeping back the news.-Lit. Gaz.

PROSPECTS OF CAPTAIN PARRY,

An interesting paper has been read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, on the probable situation, condition, and prospects of Captain Parry, and his brave fellow-adventurers, an inquiry surely not ill-timed at a season to us of joy and festivity, to them of dreariness and darkness. "It shewed the probability of their having succeeded in getting a passage through some inlet in the N. W. of Hudson's Bay, since, if this had not been the case, they would have returned, or at least been heard of. If they should have got beyond the Copper Mine River the first summer, it is a subject of hope rather than expectation, that they may have passed Mackenzie's and pushed through Behring's Straits, in which case we may expect intelligence very soon. But in this case, probably Franklin would have heard of them.— Or they may have been taken short by the climate before reaching the Pacific, and are now passing a second winter on this side of Behring's Straits; still a fair hope may be entertained of their ultimate safety; but it may be the end of this year or the spring of the next, before we hear of them.-Or, thirdly, they may not have been able to find a passage to the Pacific; and then the question is, can they get back to the Atlantic before the open weather closes; or have they the means of passing a third Polar winter? Various presumptions are in favour of this. But on a fourth, not improbable, suppoWhen the news of his (Franklin's) death arrived in sition, of damage to the ships, or deficiency of, or injury to the resources, or sickness, disabling Paris, in 1790, a society of printers met in an apart from exertion, their situation must indeed be ment of the Cordeliers convent, to celebrate a funeral festival in honour of the American philosopher. His wretched; and what ought the country, in conbust was elevated upon a column in the middle of the templation even of its possibility, to do? First, to despatch directions to the governors of Caroom. Upon the head was placed a civic crown: below the bust were compositors' cases, a press, and nada, Hudson's Bay, and the North-West Comother emblems of the art, which the sage had culti-pany, directing them to equip different parties vated. While one printer was pronouncing an eulogium upon Franklin, workmen were printing it, and the speech composed and pulled off as fast as uttered, was copiously distributed among the spectators brought together by this entertainment.'-Mad. Campan.

DR. FRANKLIN AT THE FRENCH COURT.-Franklin appeared at court in the dress of an American cultivator. His straight unpowdered hair, his round hat, his brown cloth coat, formed a contrast with the laced and embroidered coats, and the powdered and perfumed heads of the courtiers of Versailles. This novelty turned the enthusiastic heads of the French women. Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin, who, to the reputation of a most skilful philosopher, added the patriotic virtues which had invested bim with the noble character of an apostle of liberty. I was present at one of these entertainments, when the most beatiful woman out of three hundred was selected to place a crown of laurels upon the white head of the American philosopher, and two kisses upon his cheeks. Even in the palace of Versailles, Franklin's medallion was sold under the king's eyes, in the exbibition of Sevres procelain.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.
CAPTAIN PARRY'S EXPEDITION.
A contradiction of the account in our last
Number relative to this interesting Expedition
has appeared in several of the daily papers
but as we have heard nothing from any official
authority on the subject, we are inclined to
place confidence in the reports which reached

of natives, with proper supplies, to go in search, by the Copper Mine and Mackenzie's River, and other routes, with a security of being rewarded at any rate, and munificently in case of success. Secondly, that two or three small vessels be sent in different directions. Thirdly, that the Davis Straits ships be encouraged to sail a fortnight or more before the usual time, and explore the coast before they come to the fishing ground." Accounts have reached England since the above was read, via Russia, that two vessels answering to those of the expedition, had been seen by some Russian Colonists off Iey Cape. If so, the ships are now on their return by the Pacific Ocean,

FINE ARTS.

THE RAISING OF LAZARUS.

BY B. R. HAYDON.

With the most perfeet sincerity do we congratulate Mr. Haydon on having accomplished the FINEST PICTURE which his pencil has yet executed. We hope that we shall have to say of him, what Reynolds said of Reubens :-that his genius expands with his canvass.' The picture measures 22 feet by 15; and there is not a portion of it but what is appropriately occupied. We shall endeavour to describe this picture, and to tell our tale in as few words as possible.

head, apparently copied from the Portland vase.
Above, is a fine figure of a youth pointing with both
arms, as it were, to the object of the miracle; and
turning his head over his left shoulder, with an earnest
entreaty of expression in his countenance, for his com-
panions to come and witness the miraculous scene.
Again, by the side of this youth, and a little above
him, is a remarkably well conceived and coloured
figure of a man, kneeling on a wall, in the act of

prayer, in perfect rapture and astonishment at what
has taken place. Several figures, to the left of him,
half seen, scrambling over the same wall, denote the
prevalence of the same feeling.

The back ground is a scene of temples and buildings
near Jerusalem, irradiated by the partial gleams of
light, which seem to dart along the picture from a
passing thunder-storm. We do not pretend to have
described all the principal figures in this very fine per-
formance; but after observing, in addition, that the
colouring throughout is sober, and yet glowing; after
passing an unqualified commendation on the ochres and
dark greens, which keep down the more radiant hues
and after expressing our intire conviction that the
story is better told than we have ever yet seen it told
-we beg to congratulate both Mr. H. and the public
on this very fine acquisition to the BRITISH SCHOOL
OF PAINTING. We do indeed sincerely hope, that
no ungovernable prejudices on the one hand, and no
precipitate, ill-judged encomiums on the other, may
intercept the free exercise of every man's opinion,
in conclusion, with the characters engaged in the trans-
who has eyes to see, and a heart to feel. And we say,
action, COME AND SEE:' for, of all the miracles per-
formed by our blessed Saviour, this was one of the
most solemn in its procedure, and most astonishing in
its results. It was the type of his owN AWFUL FATE.

--Museum.

CORRESPONDENCE.

COBBETT'S GRAMMAR.

TO THE EDITOR,

Nearly about the centre of the composition stands the Saviour of the world. The words, LAZARUS, COME FORTH,' have passed his lips, and he waits in tranquil and confident expectation of the fulfilment of his command. His countenance, which is in profile, is calm, sweet, and godlike: a small bright glory incircles his head; above which, his right band is raised, as if accompanying, or following, the words just uttered! His drapery is well disposed, and of a subdued tint, in French grey and crimson. You look for Lazarus, in the direction of our Saviour's 'eyes, and you absolutely start-as you see him in the corner of the picture erect-with opened eyes of astonishment -his grave-clothes flung from off his head and breast and his attention intensely fixed on the Power that had raised him from the dust. There is a very unusual, preternatural, ghost-like air, about this figure of Lazarus, which not only differs from all those of him which we have seen, but which we think singularly powerful, and appropriate. It has been usual with many of the old masters to occupy half their canvass with an ugly common-place object of an excavation of the earth, meant for a grave. Mr. H. has nothing of the kind. It is the occupier of the grave, and not the grave itself, which he wishes the spectator to behold. Two grave-diggers, however, of muscular forms, and starting back with amazement bordering on horror, Occupy the foreground very successfully; and tell the tale as well as if we saw the excavation full 'eight SIR,-I see that my query on Cobbett's English feet deep.' Nor is the raised figure busied in disen- Grammar, which you were so kind as to insert, has tangling himself from his bandages and cords, as in been answered in the last number of your Miscellany the famous picture of Sebastian del Piombo-with by one of your Correspondents; and, though much which, if report speaks true, Mr. H.'s performance obliged to him for his candid opinion, I hope he will will probably soon come in competition; but it obtrudes not be displeased at my giving proper reasons for not just sufficient to convince us that the GREAT MIRACLE agreeing with him on the sentence in question, B. seems has been accomplished, and that the raised Lazarus is somewhat dissatisfied at my not being more explicit" not less sensible of it than the surrounding spectators. with respect to my doubts; in answer to this, I say Of these surrounding spectators' we could say a that I did not consider it at all necessary, as my object good deal more than our present limits admit of. was to know if the word "work" should be repeated Among them, the father and mother of Lazarus are in the same sentence, as it appeared there was only one particularly conspicuous-in fine character, and full of verb; and by expressing it as I did, I could not supexpression; and are among the finest parts of colour-pose any person to be ignorant of my meaning. Howing in the picture. The head of the father is full of nature. Below them is Mary, the sister of the recently deceased. She is atterly absorbed in grief; and has not yet gazed on her restored brother. In the foreground, before our Saviour, is the figure of MARTHA, kneeling, with extended arms, and a handkerchief in her right hand. But we submit, either that the body and head are too large, or that the armparticularly the right-is too small. And we would further observe, that the handkerchief appears of rather too modern a shape or character. There is one figure in the piece, above Martha-that of ST. JOHN-which is not only the finest in the composition, but perhaps one of the very finest in the modern school of painting. This tender-hearted disciple is apparently lost between devotion to his master, and astonishment at the miracle just wrought. His whole figure, especially his countenance and clasped hands, are indicative of an intensity of feeling. We never noticed anv thing finer; and the colouring is worthy of the drawing. Above, are two well-known Judaical characters-a pharisee and a sadducee, with philacteries on their foreheads. The reluctant admission of the miracle performed is finely delineated in their countenances. To the right, is a most beautifully drawn and coloured head of a young woman, with a cinerary vase on her

We allude to the rumoured sale of the Gallery of Pictures of the late J. J. Angerstein, Esq.

ever, it has given B. an opportunity of introducing a
part of the sentence to which I did not advert: but
immediately after he comes to the point; and says that,
a "work" being at so great, a distance, he saw no.
great impropriety in the verbs being repeated. In an
swer to this I beg leave to say that how distant soever
the nominative case and verb be, or how numerous
soever the intervening clauses be, the same nominative
case should not be repeated to the same verb: for
"non scribitur Canibus," we are not to suppose that
any person acquainted even with the rudiments of syn-
tax would be at a loss to find the nominative case to
"deserves." But repeating it is contrary to rule,
therefore it is wrong. B. next says that "the two
nominative cases may be easily reconciled on the gram.
matical principle of two words being put in apposition;
here I would inform him that the same word was never
put in apposition with itself; for by apposition is
meant, that affinity which is between two different
words, each pertaining to the same person or thing,
and is so binding that it will admit of no variation of
case: thus," Cicero the greatest orator of the age;"
we say that the word "orator" is put in apposition
with "Cicero." But according to B.'s reasoning we
could say, "Cicero" the greatest "Cicero" of the
age; this requires no contradiction, as the impropriety
of it is palpable.

It now of course devolves on me to answer B.'s
query. He questions as to the correctness of the sen-

tence "Your Majesty who is the only one." I say it is strictly correct; however, in order to be as explicit as possible, I shall answer his queries one by one. "Your Majesty who is the only one:" Query, of what person is "your Majesty?" I say it is the 3rd person. Q. Does the relative who agree with Majesty as its antecedent? I answer yes. Q. In that case of what gender is Majesty? I answer of the feminine. Q. How so, as "Majesty" cannot properly be called masculine or feminine? I give it gender by a figure of speech.* Q. Is that conformable to rule or custom? In answer to this I will give you the words of an author: "Yes: and it has been justly regarded as a great advantage in our language: we can whenever our subject will justify it, transform into masculine or feminine, nouns, which are strictly speaking neuter; and thus by giving the fanctions of life to inanimate objects enliven and elevate our style, and give to our expressions great additional dignity and force." There now remains one point more to be cleared with regard to the relative. B. says "and in that case should not the relative be which?"

By making the relative "which" it must have "Majesty" as an inanimate thing for its antecedent, and of course of the neuter gender; and then the word Majesty as an inanimate thing "can be the only one that appears to have justly estimated the value of the people." I need not waste any time in proving the inconsistency of such language, as I am inclined to think that B. him

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self will find that I have been clear enough; observing
however that "Your Majesty who are the only one
would be equally as correct as that in question.
With much respect I remain your's
Manchester, March 5th, 1823.

• Personification.

F.

REPOSITORY OF GENIUS. "And justly the Wise-man thus preach'd to us all,"Despise not the value of things that are small."— Old Ballad.

[The pronoun me, in the following lively and ingenious composition is printed with a capital, because it partakes, in some measure, of the nature of a proper Riddle,--one of the longest certainly, and perhaps one name,-being the representative of the Subject of the of the best Riddles that ever was composed.-Indeed it scarcely deserves the name of a Riddle, as the veil is so thin, and the features so prominent, that the Answer is discoverable on the first glance. As a mere Riddle, its length alone would be objectionable; but tension.-S. X.] in the way of description, it might still admit of exA RIDDLE,

BY A LADY,

Ladies, I your attention claim,
Nor doubt but soon you'll know my name;
And if my presence you're possessing,
You scarce need ask another blessing.
I am not power, I am not wealth,
Nor joy, nor innocence, nor health;
I'm not a husband, nor a wife,
(By some esteem'd the sweets of life;)
Love I have known, but often fly,
The moment he approaches nigh.
I am not Hope, Hope oft beguiles,
Smiles, and deceives you as she smiles;
But I, a friend, sincere and warm,
Profess no more than I perform.
I'm not Religion, but depend
On her, as on my dearest friend;
And have the privilege and honour
Still to attend and wait upon her.
Nor Cheerfulness herself am I,
Though of the self-same family;
Allied by a fraternal band,
You often see Us hand in hand.
Perhaps you'll fancy that content
By this description must be meant ;
But no ;-'tis said Content will dwell
With the lone hermit in his cell;
But should you seek for Me, I fear..
You would not often find me there.
The beggar, on his bed of straw,
From sloth itself content will draw;
In rags and dirt will sit and sing,
As blithe and merry as a king:
But 1 ne'er came within his but,-
I hate a sluggard and a slut ;
And as for rags and dirt, I ne'er
In them did ever yet appear.
England's my birth-place-'tis averr'd
No foreign language knows the word;
And English travellers declare,

I cannot live in foreign air!

But English travellers are nice,

And this, you'll say is prejudice;

Yet foreigners themselves have found

My native soil is English ground.

But I fear you grow weary; and so for your pleasure,

To finish my story, I'll alter my measure.

With a cheerful Old Maid, who, well pleas'd and contented Has refus'd some good offers, yet never repented,

I oft am an inmate; on her I attend,

But am not so much the Old Bachelor's friend;

Since he frequently finds, if the truth he will own,

Man never was meant to enjoy me alone.

The truth is I'm shy, and on others depend,

Before I am fix'd as a permanent friend;

Must have all things neat and convenient about me,

Or else you'll soon find you must e'en live without me.
For instance,-in winter I always require

A hearth that's clean swept, and a good blazing fire.
At night, a warm room, with an excellent bed,
Beside some soft pillows to solace my head;
With a daily supply of good drink and good meat,
For I cannot exist where there's nothing to eat;
Yet I'm no epicure;-although I must own,

I would rather each day have two dishes than one.
But this as you please; I shall never contend,
For if you are happy-it answers my end.

But beside all these requisites, mentioned to you,
There are others,-and those of more consequence too;
Things which you must either possess or provide,
Before you can have me with you to reside:
Good sense, in the first place, I cannot omit,
Although I can live very well without wit;
But as for good temper, if ever she flies,
Be certain the full better half of Me dies.

With Jealousy, Envy, and low-minded Pride,

I cannot, 'tis not in my nature,-abide ;

But Hatred and Malice, Contention and Spite,
If e'er they come near Me, will kill Me outright.
In fine, would you have Me, with all my perfections,
You must cherish good-will and the social affections;
Attend to my wants, and remember my threats,—
Preserve a clear conscience, and pay all your debts.

THE DRAMA.

MANCHESTER DRAMATIC REGISTER,
From Monday March 3rd, to Friday March 7th, 1823.

Monday.-Pizarro with the Prize. Rolla-Mr. Young.
Tuesday. For the Benefit of Mr. Young.-Man of the
World: with the Promissory Note and For England,
Ho! Sir Pertinax Mac Sycophant-Mr. Young.
Wednesday.-Mr. Tibbs with Tom and Jerry.
Thursday.-Ways and Means: with Tom and Jerry.
Friday. The Bath Road: with Tom and Jerry.

We understand that Miss Hammersley has concluded a most advantageous engagement, for a term of three years, with the Managers of the Theatre-Royal Covent Garden. Mr. Brown also leaves us for the TheatreRoyal Drury Lane; and, during the Liverpool season, Mr. Salter is engaged for the Theatre-Royal Birmingham.

FASHIONS FOR MARCH.

BALL DRESS.-Round dress of amber coloured crape, a puckering of gauze of the same colour at the border, finished by rouleaux, wadded very full of white satin, with full blown white roses, and a few leaves of green foliage: under each rose is an antique ornament of the rosace kind, composed of white satin, with a tuft of amber in the interior. The body of this beautiful dress is of satin, and is elegantly diversified by white silk cordon and fine blond; the front of the bust is finished by a narrow falling tucker of blond; and the shoulders ornamented by bows of white satin ribbon. The sleeves are white, and are trimmed to correspond with the skirt, except that the flowers are left out; they are finished by the rouleaux in points, with the rosaces in the centre of the sleeve, encircling the arm. The hair is arranged a la Sappho; and round the Lesbian braid at the back part of the head is placed a wreath of full blown roses and laurel leaves. The earrings and necklace are of fine pearls; the ear-pendants superbly set.

EVENING DRESS.-Dress of Urling's Patent Lace over a slip of lilac coloured satin. Three French tucks of white satin, falling one over the other, are placed at the edge of the border. These are surmounted by a rich festoon trimming of white crape, consisting of full puffings, each festoon headed by an Asiatic diadem, divided by pearls, which gives a most splendid effect to this truly novel and unique kind of trimming. The body and sleeves are elegantly simple, the former having only a slight ornament of fine lace round the bust, with a few puffs of lilac satin; the sleeves are very short, not full, and are bound tight round the arm with a broad band of satin.

WALKING DRESS.-A deep amethyst-colour silk pelisse of gros de Naples, wadded, and lined with pink sarsnet; a little wrapt and fastened down the front with hooks and eyes: corsage, made plain and high, ornamented with tasselled chevronelles circular projecting collar of velvet, of a deeper hue, than the silk; two rows of velvet are placed down the front

and round the bottom of the skirt: sleeve nearly to fit, with
velvet cuff, and full epaulette, intersected with velvet straps.
Ruff of Buckinghamshire lace; cap of the same, fastened under
the chin with button and loop. Bonnet of the same silk as the
pelisse, bound with broad velvet, and lined with pink satin :
the front bent a la Marie Stuart; the crown surrounded with
inverted conical rouleaus of velvet, equi-distant, commencing
with a silk knot: plume of ostrich feathers of a bright amethyst
colour, placed on the right side, and falling low on the left
shoulder.

VARIETIES.

MISTAKEN CIVILITY.-A gentleman mistaking a very small lady,-who was picking her way over a dirty channel,--for a very young one, snatched her up in his arms, and landed her in safety on the other side, when she indignantly turned up a face expressive of the anger of fifty winters, and demanded why he dared to take such a liberty. Oh! I humbly beg your pardon, (said the gentleman,) I have only one amends to make;" and he again caught her up, and placed her where he had first found her.

How, thus twin-courted, she'll behave
Depends upon this rule-

If she's a fool she'll wed the knave,
And if a knave the fool.

My thrifty spouse, her taste to please,
With rival dames at auctions vies;
She doats on every thing she sees,
And every thing she doats on buys.
I with her taste am quite enchanted;
Such costly wares, so wisely sought!
Bought, besause they may be wanted;
Wanted, because they may be bought.

TO OUR READERS.

The Readers of the Iris will perceive from the "Bas chelor's Dream," (our Compositor's initiatory lesson) that we are now prepared to redeem our promise of presenting them with "an occasional treat.”

A quantity of MUSIC TYPE having been CAST in London, at considerable expense, EXPRESSLY FOR THE IRIS, we shall introdure a new feature, without infringing upon any other department of our publication,—by frequently giving TWO to FOUR EXTRA PAGES of ORIGINAL or SELECT MUSIC.

In our Literary career, it has ever been our wish to elicit talent, and to foster unassuming merit; to correct taste by liberal strictures; and, for our ge

GANGANELLI (POPE CLEMENT XIV.) AND VOLTAIRE. In the course of an interview which an English gentleman had with the Pope at Rome, the latter inquired of the former the route he had come, which inquiry introduced his mentioning that he had visited Voltaire at Ferney, and indeed had charge of a message from that philosopher to his holiness. If he would be pleased to permit him, he would deliver it in the words in which he had received it. The gentleman said, that Voltaire had charged him with his very best respects to his holiness, and requested, as a great favour, that he would send him the eyes and ears of his Inquisitor-neral readers, to combine a select variety of amusing General, "Ah!" replied his holiness, "the old man has a mind to be pleasant; and, sir, if yon return the same way, be pleased to deliver to him my best respects, and assure him, if it had been practicable, I would readily have obliged him; but the inquisitorgeneral of Rome has had neither eyes nor ears since Ganganelli has been pope."

BUTTON-HOLES.-A grave-digger, having buried a
Mr. Button, sent the following curious bill to his exe-

cutors :

"To making a Button-hole......25." On reading this, one of them exclaimed,

O sun! O moon! and ye celestial poles!

Are graves then dwindled into Button-holes?

DR. JENNER.--The medical men of Gloucestershire have had a meeting for the purpose of promoting measures in honour of the late Dr. Jenner. It is proposed to erect a monument to his memory in, or near, the city of Gloucester.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON.-We understand that several valuable papers of this celebrated mathematician are in the possession of Lord Portsmouth, who has intrusted them to Dr. Latham for the purpose of publication.

PARACHUTE ROCKET.-On Friday night week a newly-invented rocket was let off on Chatham lines, in the presence of the officers of the garrison, of a very peculiar and curious construction. After rising a considerable height in the air, it explodes, when a parachute, contained in the head of the rocket, is separated from it and suddenly expands, which has, depending from it, a fire-ball of considerable magnitude, which gives a most powerful light, illuminating the country for nearly a mile round. The parachute prevents the ball from descending to the earth, over which it hovers like a satellite. The rocket is intended to show the position and movements of an enemy's army, or any body of troops, by night.-Maidstone Gazette.

EPIGRAMS.

How D. D. swaggers, M. D. rolls!
I dub them both a brace of noddies:
Old D. D. has the Cure of souls,
And M. D. has the Care of bodies.
Between them both, what treatment rare
Our souls and bodies must endure,
One has the Cure without the Care,
And one the Care without the Cure.

To Flavia's shrine two suitors run
And woo the fair at once:
A needy fortune-hunter one,
And one a wealthy dunce.

and instructive subjects. We can, in a very great measure assume, that our efforts have not been unsuccess

ful; and the pleasure we derive from this consideration, with the reliance we have on the same discerning Public, induce us cheerfully to submit to the present additional expense, in the pleasing expectation of rendering our publication still more entertaining and useful.

To our Musical Friends who have kindly offered their services in this department of our Miscellany, the Iris, we trust, will prove a most eligible medium for conveying Specimens of Talent and Scientific

Attainment.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Watty is as usual-humourous and hard to please!-Why, in
the name of common sense, should he object to the originality,
or want of originality, of The Romaunt of Llewellyn?-
Our learned correspondent Xi is seriously implicated, and
we certainly think that he should resort to defensive mea-
sures.-Eustace de St. Clere might have been mistaken in
his selections; but we think as a dissertator, he has given as
much in a few paragraphs, as Lecturers usually comprise in
as many pages.-Watty is generous, we have no doubt; but
we are not of opinion that, because our readers will not give
us an extra twopence-halfpenny, we should not study the
wishes of our contributors.-We shall, on this score, be fre-
quently open to W-y.-See Notice to Readers above.
The Romaunt of Llewellyn-The first part of the second
Canto is received.-The difficulty of decyphering some cha-
racters, and of modernizing some parts of the style, unavoid-
ably subjects this poem to irregularity in publication.
Mr. Gerard's humourous epistle; the Wearied Bachelor; R. T.
on Peevishness, &c.; Juvenis on Death; J. W. to Mary;
J. A. Parnell; and Clio-are received.

An Eton Scholar's Lines have too close an affinity to "The
Bachelor's Rejoinder."

J. W.'s Lines to Mary are susceptible of much improvement.
Edmund and Ann is not a plausible fiction; it is also ungram-
matical, and devoid of melody.

Our Oxford-Street correspondent should prefer bis complaint to the Managers of our Theatre. We, however, think that the removal of the evil stated is impracticable.

A LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

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No. 59.-VOL. II.

THE LIVERPOOL CONCENTRIC FRIENDS.

No. III.

All the Home Members being assembled at six o'clock, the

Deliberation Chamber

was entered, and, after the reading and approval of sundry communications from Friend Nol, a discussion took place upon a paper entitled "Observations addressed to the Editors of the Public Journals upon the present mode of procuring bodies for the Schools of Anatomy."

The Human Dissectors have had many queries put to them, all of which, it appears, they decline answering; and we must still receive instead of dispassionate sound argument, a string of interrogatories that pre-suppose us to be fully acquainted with all the arcana of surgery and medicine. The absolute right of having bodies procured, is assumed, without a single illustration of the necessity of dissection; and the ridiculous notion is foisted upon society, that, because a fracture or injury now and then occurs which renders amputation necessary, we must all, forsooth, consent to have the Burial Grounds robbed of the remains we instinctively regard, nay venerate-and all this for the purpose of supplying each student with a perfect, an entire body for dissection,although, not one of these in every 500, will, when in practice, ever be adequate to, or have occasion for effecting amputations. But, the Dissectors' argumentative queries shall be put, and distinctly replied to.—

1.

"Will these gentlemen [the Editors of the Public Journals point out how Anatomy, and consequently Surgery, are to be taught without

dissections ?"

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1823.

3.

"Is it not already melancholy enough in its
effects upon the Surgeon, and in its consequences
to Society, that the supply of bodies is not to be
obtained but by bringing him in contact aeith,
and compelling him as it were to employ, a set
of arretches, rho, by the VERY ACT, are ren-
dered fitter for every species of Plunder, and
Devastation, and Violence, and Murder?”
Here is, indeed, work for the Legislature;
has there been such a declaration ever before
made to the world? It must also strike every
reader how careful the Dissector is to identify
himself with the entire body of Surgeons!

5.

Now, that a Professor should call upon opponents to advocate his system-upon mere tyros to demonstrate the accuracy of his pecu-body has been microscopically investigated, and, Surgery cannot retrograde! The human liar views-and upon those who demand particular arguments, to accede to the truth and positive necessity of his general assumptionsis, to say the best, somewhat paradoxical, and savours strongly of weakness, if not of sophistry.-But, in this way alone can human dissec

PRICE 31d.

would do well to consider this :-he should also
fully and unequivocally explain what benefit
can possibly result to society from an actual
dissection of the trunk or extremities, every
bone, muscle, gland, nerve, artery, and vein,
nay, almost every fibre and particle of which
may be now correctly shewn in plates, models,
and natural and artificial subjects? Why should
not lectures upon those parts be confined to
Were all the burial grounds
these mediums?
and all the hospitals in Europe open to Resur-
rection Men and Lecturers, could they possibly
ascertain more than that muscles, nerves, veins,
&c. answer such and such purposes? Can they
hope to explain the cause of muscular motion?
to identify the active principle of nerves, or the
nature of sensibility?"

6.

are

"What are the people, on whose minds this pregnant mischief [the effort to abolish human dissection] is intended to operate? Chiefly the poor; the ignorant, and the unprotected!—Those very men for whose benefit our Dispensaries and Hospitals are founded,-who of all men most exposed to external injury, and therefore of all men are most to be benefited by the improvement of Surgery-the Soldier and Sailor, whose station subjects them to every wound and violence tohich the human frame is capable of receiving ! Good God! is it men like these, who stand in the hourly need of our services, that are to have their feelings excited."

This is as false as it is fulsome, and as impiorders generally, let us take Manchester as an ous as false. For injuries amongst the lower example. Perambulate the streets of that town; visit its extensive manufactories (in which there are surely all the necessary facilities for the con

"Do they [Editors] wish that Surgery should no longer be taught in this country-that its study and improvement should not keep pace with the advancement of the other arts and sciencesand that we should retrograde to those ages of tusion of limbs); and sum up the number of ignorance, when our fellow-creatures were to be those who have undergone amputation. Inquire tortured with dressings of scalding oil, or sub-next what proportion of these have been operjected to all the horrors of the actual cautery ated upon in the public Hospital, and then for the stopping a bleeding vessel ?" divide the remainder amongst the entire numther one living subject will fall to the lot of ber of medical practitioners, and declare wheevery part, not only fully described in words, each Surgeon in the course of a dozen generabut accurately delineated by the engraver, and tions!! On inquiry amongst the sailors in our The words of a corresponding member are most faithfully represented by the modeller. own town, we are at a still greater loss to account for the temerity of this contemptible :-" Why have Munros, Bells, sophist. What "wound or violence," that requite to the point :Hunters, furnished such elaborate and exact quires surgical aid do they acknowledge themrepresentations from many thousand dissections, selves peculiarly subject to? With soldiers, if these dissections can never be superseded by and the navy it is otherwise; but what situation plates, models, or museums? Were they, with furnishes the best treatise on gun-shot wounds? Boerhaave, Haller, Cowper, Cheselden, Albi- The Dissecting Room or the Field? The Ananus, and others, urged on in these terrible in- tomical Theatre or the Cockpit? Or how vestigations, by purely an insatiable propensity? many of the students of Mr. Abernethy, of Or, did they act the part of nefarious impostors, | Mr. Brooke, or of any other of the Anatomical That men should subvert sentiments, how- in professing, that pursuits and labours would Lecturers, can, on receiving a military or naval ever DIS-“ honourable” and impious, by which prove useful to society, which were only cal-appointment, proceed in the discharge of his they obtain an easy and affluent support, can culated to enrich themselves? It is, indeed, a professional duties, without further instruction? hardly be expected. Nor can even" honour-poor muscum that does not contain subjects That there are many who do-soldiers and able and enlightened" dissectors suppose that sailors can painfully demonstrate; but, that mere egotism should cant an enlightened public there are great pains taken to initiate young out of reason and nature, and into an acquiesMedical Officers into the duties of Hospitals, cence with a contemptible jargon of the benefits &c. may be readily ascertained at any of the it derives from-unsupported assertion. principal depots.

tion be defended!

2.

Do they [Editors] expect an honourable and enlightened body of men to acquiesce in sentiments, and act upon them, to the subversion of their own profession, and of the science and practice of Surgery?"

which are sufficient to convey as much, and as
accurate, information to the student, as he can
possibly obtain from the actual dissection of a
human body, in which, from putrefaction, there
is a general dissolution of continuity. Mr. A.

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