was placed naked on a table. By the conversation of the two fellows with the servant who admitted them, I learnt that I was that night to be dissected. My eyes were still shut, I saw nothing; but in a short time I heard, by the bustle in the room, that the students of anatomy were assembling. Some of them came round the table, and examined me minutely. They were pleased to find that so good a subject had been procured. The demonstrator himself at last came in. Previous to beginning the dissection, he proposed to try on me some galvanic experiment-and an apparatus was arranged for that purpose. The first shock vibrated through all my nerves: they rung and jangled like the strings of a harp. The students expressed their admiration at the convulsive effect. The second shock threw my eyes open, and the first person I saw was the doctor who had attended me. But still I was as dead: I could, however, discover among the students the faces of many with whom I was familiar; and when my eyes were opened, I heard my name pronounced by several of the students, with an accent of awe and compassion, and a wish that it had been some other subject. When they had satisfied themselves with the galvanic phenomena, the demonstrator took the knife, and pierced me on the bosom with the point. I felt a dreadful crackling, as it were, throughout my whole frame-a convulsive shuddering instantly followed, and a shriek of horror arose from all present. The ice of death was broken up-my trance ended. The utmost exertions were made to restore me, and in the course of an hour I was in the full possession of all my faculties. London Paragraphs. ORIGINAL ANECDOTES-LITERARY NEWS-REMARKABLE INCIDENTS, &C. (English Magazines, &c. Nov.) GEORGE IV. When the yacht was endeavouring to double the Lands-end (on the return from Ireland) the weather was terrific; it blew a hurricane, and seemed settling in. Sir Charles Paget told the King that he would not be answerable for the consequences of persevering. His Majesty said, "Paget, do nothing but what is right; act as you would do if I were not here." In altering the course to run for Milford, a thick fog came on, and it was impossible to see a ship's length; the gale increased, and Sir Charles naturally anxious in having a charge so precious in his care as our beloved King, again felt it his duty to state the danger in which he thought the vessel. His Majesty received the communication with the greatest coolness, and again desired him not to think about him. Still the weather grew worse, and while the yacht was under bare poles, or nearly so, a sea struck her wheel, and unshipped her tiller ropes; to any person acquainted with nautical matters, this occurrence in a storm, needs no remark; and Sir Charles felt it his duty to dispatch an officer to report the accident to the King. "Tell Paget," said the Monarch, "that I am quite satisfied in having as gallant and skilful officers, and as active a crew as Europe can produce for the rest we must rely upon Providence." Similar fortitude and presence of mind marked his Majesty's conduct in his short excursion to Calais: when the yacht arriv ed off that port, it was blowing hard, with a heavy sea running, the waves rolling in struck her on the weather side, and dashed furiously over her quarter-deck. It was reported, that as his Majesty's barge was not arrived, and no means of ensuring a safe landing, were at hand, they must stand out to sea for the night. The King asked if there was no French boat; a French fishing-boat was dancing before the yacht at the moment; the people offered their services. Sir Edmund Nagle and Sir Charles Paget (both experienced naval officers) wished to deter his Majesty from going, but he called to the Frenchmen in their own language, and asked them if they could carry him safe ashore; they affirmed that they could: upon which his Majesty, turning with a smile to his nautical attendants, said, "Come-I am quite sure you don't mind a ducking ;" and instantly went down the side-they of course followed. The boat having got entangled in some ropes which were adrift, a sea completely washed the whole crew. Sir Charles Paget, alarmed for the King, was about to seize the helm, when the King touching his arm, said, "Be quiet, my good friend, leave the Frenchmen to manage their own boat in their own way, and I'll be bound for them they shall land us safe." They however struck three times on the that arose from the publication. bar, and were very nearly swamped. A LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. After the fatal attack of Bunker's Hill in America, Earl Percy gave to the widow of every soldier in his regiment, who fell in the battle, an immediate benefaction of seven dollars; he paid their passage home, and ordered five guineas to be given to each of them on landing in Britain. His humanity to the sick and wounded whom he supplied with wine, fresh provisions, &c., and his generosity to their families during their long stay at Boston, were unparalleled. He had a large tent provided for every company at his own expense, to accommodate the women; and he made it a rule to receive no other servants into his family but soldiers or their wives. Though his regiment was distinguished for its admirable discipline, yet he never suffered his men to be struck; but won them to their duty by generous treatment, by rewards, and by his own excellent example, requiring no service from the meanest sentinel which he was not ready to share with them, whether as to hardship, danger or fatigue. THE PERCY'S. The Abbe De Percy, some time after the commencement of the revolution in France, was obliged to fly from his living in Normandy to England. Soon after his arrival in London, he was hustled in New Street, Covent Garden, and robbed of twenty guineas, which he had received but a few minutes before at Sir Robert Herries's. With the remainder of his little property, he went to Bath, where it was soon expended. In this dilemma, his countrymen there reminded him, that he was related to the English Percy's, and, as the Duke of Northumberland was at that time there, they advised him to apply to his Grace for relief. The Abbe immediately wrote to the duke, who returned a polite answer, and requested a few days for investigation. In the meantime, his Grace wrote to Lord Harcourt, at whose house the Duc d'Harcourt resided, and enquired whether the Abbe was one of the Percys of Normandy; soon after which, he transmitted to his new cousin a gold box, with a bank note inclosed in it for one thousand pounds, and a general invitation to his table, which was from that day open to him. LITERARY DISCOVERY. The Edinburgh Star says, "About 30 years ago, there was a respectable old man, of the name of John Steel, who was well acquainted with Allan Ramsay; and he told John Steel himself, that when Mr. Thomson, the author of "The Seasons," was in his shop at Edinburgh, getting himself shaven, Ramsay was repeating some of his poems. Mr. Thomson says to him, "I have something to emit to the world, but I do not wish to father it." Ramsay asked what he would give him, and he would father it. Mr. Thomson replied, all the profit "A bar gain be it," said Ramsay. Mr. Thomson delivered him the manuscript. So, from what is said above, Mr. Thomson, the author of "The Seasons," is the author of is the father of it. This, I believe, is the "The Gentle Shepherd," and Allan Ramsay G. D. Oct. 3, 1821." Such is the story; truth.-An Old Shepherd from Logan House, but it seems very improbable. MIRACLE. The Gazette de Lyon, of the 14th, contains the following article:"A Nun of this city had, for several years, been confined to her bed by illness; and, from some singular cause, her whole body was in a state of putrefaction, though her senses still retained their full vigour. This woman died some time ago, and her body was buried in the vault of the convent. Her brother, whose sentiments were very different from those of the deceased nun, and who was generally looked upon as a strong-minded man, descended into the vault to see the body. He cast his eyes on the corpse; the head was uncovered, and the countenance which, during life, had been pale and emaciated, suddenly assumed the hue of health. It is added, that the dead nun, who had long made useless efforts to convert her brother, exclaimed with a loud voice,"Wretched man! think on thy salvation!" "It is not accurately known whether these words were really produced. They were heard only by the individual to whom they were addressed, and this part of the story is somewhat destitute of the proofs. usually required to corroborate facts of so extraordinary a nature. It has, however, been alleged, by credible witnesses, that the body of the nun, which, during her life, was in a state of putrefaction, has resumed the fresh and natural appearance of health. "The brother of the nun was so terrified by the miracle of which he was a witness, that he has entered a convent of Trapistes." BENEVOLENT GAMESTERS. A very respectable gentleman, who had an aversion to cards, but did not wish to seem unfashionable in a family where he often visited, and where public days for play were set apart, found himself under the necessity of playing deep. It was his good fortune, however, generally to be successful. After some years of intimacy, the master of this family took him aside one day, and imparted to him the melancholy, secret, that his affairs were in a most embarrassed state. The gentleman expressed his concern at his friend's distress, and entreated him not to despair. On his return home, he opened a private drawer in his bureau, in which he had nightly deposited his winnings at the card tables in his friend's house; and the next day, he insisted on refunding the sum this inconsiderate man and his family had lost. It was sufficient to save his friend from instant imprisonment, and to give a turn to his affairs; but he restored it only on condi tion that they should never play at cards again. The late General Scott, so celebrated for his success in gaming, was one evening playing very deep with the Count D'Artois, and the Duke de Chartres, at Paris, when a petition was brought up from the widow of a French officer, stating her various misfortunes, and praying relief; a plate was handed round, and each put in one, two, or three louis d'ors; but when it was held to the general, who was going to throw for a stake of five hundred louis d'ors, he said, "Stop a moment if you please, sir, here goes for the widow!" The throw was successful; and he instantly swept the whole into the plate, and sent it down to her. Many years since, a Mr. Bradshaw had won about £200 at a gaming table. A gentleman standing behind him, exclaimed, "How happy should be with that sum!" Bradshaw, without looking at him, handed the purse of money over his shoulder. The stranger took it, fitted himself out for India, and in a few years acquired a large fortune. On his return to England, he waited on Mr. B. to whom he made himself known, and offered restitution. Mr. B. however declined accepting it; but he soon afterwards received from the gentleman a present of much greater value. Casimir II. King of Poland, received a blow from a Polish gentleman, named Konarski, who had lost all he possessed while playing with the prince. Scarcely was the blow given, when sensible of the enormity of his crime, he betook himself to flight, but was soon apprehended by the king's guards, and condemned to lose his head. Casimir, who waited for him in silence amid his courtiers, as soon as he saw him appear, said, "I am not surprised at the conduct of this gentleman. Not being able to revenge himself on fortune, it is not to be wondered at, that he has ill-treated his friend. I am the only one to blame in this affair, for I ought not by my example, to encourage a pernicious practice which may be the ruin of my nobility." Then turn ing to the criminal, he said, "You I perceive are sorry for your fault-that is sufficient; take your money again, and let us renounce gaming for ever." GREECE. The following enumeration of a few of the islands in the Grecian Archipelago will serve to give some idea of its importance generally-Candia, 180 miles long, by from 20 to 30 in breadth; population 280,000, of whom more than two-thirds are Turks. Rhodes contains nearly 30,000 souls, and possesses one of the finest ports in Europe. The population of Samos amounts to 60,000, all Greeks; that of Scio is estimated at 150,000; of whom there is but a small proportion of Turks. Lem nos contains 80,000, and not more than 1,000 Mussulmen; that of Negropont is 16,000. Though the population of Milo is HYDROGEN EXPLOSION. A dreadful accident occurred on the 9th Aug. 1821, in the department of Saone et Loire. A considerable mass of sulphurated hydrogen gas had accumulated in a coalmine during a suspension of the works. The workmen, on the renewal of their labour, had descended the mine to the depth of 550 feet, when a loud explosion took place, and a column of fire was seen to rise 52 feet above the entrance to the pit. Seventeen men, fourteen of whom left families, were the victims of this fatal catastrophe. LORD GORMANSTON. In the month of October, 1815, the Mary. of Glasgow, was stranded near Balbriggan in Scotland. On the vessel filling, the unfortunate seamen lashed themselves in the shrouds, and every attempt to relieve them proved ineffectual from the heavy swell and surf. Two days afterwards, Lord Gormanston, who had been made acquainted with the shipwreck, offered two hundred guineas to six gallant fellows, if they would venture to rescue the seamen from their perilous situation. They immediately pushed off in a stout boat; and at the great hazard of their own lives, brought the whole crew on shore though almost in a lifeless state. Mr. Filgate, of Lowther Lodge, added twenty guineas to the handsome reward of his lordship. COLUMBIAN PRINTING PRESS. The Columbian Press has been recently introduced into the printing office of M. Didot at Paris; and so favourable a report was made to the King of the Netherlands, by a Committee of Printers, that his Majesty awarded to Mr. Clymer, the inventor, an elegant gold medal, weighing between 11 and 12 oz.; on one side of which is a likeness of the King, and the other an appropriate inscription, surrounded by a wreath. SAMUEL BAILEY. Died, Oct. 11, at the advanced age of 92, Samuel Bailey, farmer, of Hale Common, Isle of Wight. He acquired upwards of £10,000 by means the most degrading. The privations he and his family suffered are almost incredible. As bailiff to Mr. Thatcher, he saved some property, and became a small farmer; but cattle were almost strangers to his farm, as he and his children used to perform their offices, even in ploughing, &c. Scarcely any of the necessaries of life ever entered his roof: even tea was unknown; and carcases of dead cattle and carrion were often his food. His avarice absorbed every other feeling. He was very decrepit in his latter days, supporting himself on crutches, and his appearance was of the most abject description; clean linen he did not often trouble himself with; a soldier's grey coat was for some time past his outward garment. He has left a wife and four children, to whom and their offspring, he bequeathed his property; viz. the interest to his children for their lives, and the principal to be divided among the grand-children; observing, it was impossible for his children to spend so much money during their lives! Sold useful learning by the pound." Mr. Francis Newbery pursued the same line of publishing as his Uncle had so successfully begun, and continued it until his decease in the year 1780;-his Widow then succeeded him, and added many an useful and engaging work to the stock of Juvenile Literature; on her relinquishing business in the year 1801, she was succeeded by the present publishers of the Gentleman's Magazine, who with unabated zeal, are doing much for the rising generation, by bringing forward books which have a sure tendency to store the minds of youth with religious morals, and scientific and amusing information. AFRICAN SYMPATHY. A poor Negro walking towards Deptford, saw by the road side an old sailor of a dif. ferent complexion, with but one arm and two wooden legs. The worthy African immediately took three halfpence and a farthing, his little all, from the side pocket of his tattered trowsers, and forced them into the sailor's hand, while he wiped the tears from his eye with the corner of his blue patched jacket, and then walked away quite happy. NATURAL BAROMETER. The Mnemosyné, a Finland Journal, makes mention of a singular stone, (therein called meteorological) in the northern part of the province, which serves there as a sort of public barometer. At the approach of rain it takes a black or greyish black colour, and when the weather changes to fair, it becomes covered with white spots. It is probably an argillaceous substance, containing rock salt, or ammoniac, or saltpetre,and absorbing more or less of moisture, as the atmosphere is more or less charged with it. In the latter case, the saline particles crystalising, will become visible to the eye and form the white spots. Natural History. CURIOUS FACTS IN NATURAL HISTORY. It has been generally considered, on the authority of Mr. Pennant, that toads live on insects and worms; but it appears from undoubted authority, that they also destroy mice. A gentleman residing at Keswick has published a letter in the Sporting Magazine, in which he says, that one evening in the latter end of July last, he observed a rustling in a strawberry-bed in his garden, and found that a toad had just seized a field-mouse, which had got on the toad's back, scratching and biting to get released, but in vain. The toad kept his hold, and as the strength of the mouse failed, gradually drew the unfortunate little animal into his mouth, and gorged him.-Another correspondent in the same Magazine relates a Some workmen, on removing a pile of fagwonderful instance of the voracity of stoats. gots near a coppice, where it had lain about five months, found 63 rabbit-skins and 25 hare-skins, all perfectly whole, besides fragments of skins; on removing a few more bundles they found six stoats, four of which they killed, the other two escaped. It is generally thought that stoats merely suck the blood of these animals, but this fact proves that the opinion is erroneous. DOG AND GOOSE. A Canadian goose, kept lately at East Barnet, in Hertfordshire, was observed to attach itself in the strongest and most affectionate manner to the house dog, but never presumed to go into the kennel except in rainy weather; whenever the dog barked, the goose would cackle, and run after the person she supposed the dog barked at, and try to bite him by the heels. Sometimes she would attempt to feed with the dog; but this the dog, who treated his faithful companion with indifference, would not suffer. This bird would not go to the barn with the others at night, unless driven by main force; and when in the morning they were turned into the field, she would never stir from the yard gate, but sit there the whole day in sight of the dog. At length orders were given that she should no longer be molested; being thus left to herself, she ran about the yard with him all night, and what is particularly remarkable, whenever the dog went out of the yard and ran into the village, the goose always accompanied him, contriving to keep up with him by the assistance of her wings, and in this way of running and flving, followed him all over the parish. This extraordinary affection of the goose towards the dog, which continued till his death, two years after it was first observed, is supposed to have originated in his having saved her from a fox, in the very moment of distress. While the dog was ill, the goose never quitted him, day or night, not even to feed; and it was apprehended that she would have been starved to death, had not a pan of corn been set every day close to the kennel. At this time, the goose generally sat in the kennel, and would not suffer any one to approach it, except the person who brought the dog's, or her own food. The end of this faithful bird was melancholy; for when the dog died, she would still keep possession of the kennel; and a new house dog being introduced, which in size and colour resembled that lately lost, the poor goose was unhappily deceived, and going into the kennel as usual, the new inhabitant seized her by the throat and killed her. LITERARY. On the 1st of January, 1822, will be published, a New Poem by the author of the widow of Nain, &c. entitled, Irad and Adah; a Tale of the Flood. To which will be added, Lyrical Poems, principally sacred; including Translations of several of the Psalms of David. Mr. T. C. HANSARD, the eminent printer, will soon publish in one volume. 4to. an useful and elegant volume, called Typographia; an historical sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing; with details of the latest improvements, and practical directions for the mode of conducting the various branches of the art, including the process of stereotyping, and of lithographic printing. (Blackwood's Magazine.) THE NATIVE MELODY. Stanzas, supposed to be repeated by an Exile: ONCE more, oh! turn, and touch the lyre, And wake that wild impassion'd strain ; I feel the delirating fire Flash from my heart through every vein !- Strikes on a sympathetic chord, And conjures up, with viewless wand, My early days, my native land! 'Tis sweet, unutterably sweet, Upon a far and foreign strand, Beloved country! when I lose Oh! many a time, with many a tear, When Winter's hearth was blazing clear, And not amid the circle round, Cold heart, or tearless eye was found :- Ah! ne'er from inspiration fell Tones hymn'd so sweet, or loved so well! And can they be less welcome now, |