ble articles, is abundant beyond what is commonly thought; and mines of iron, copper, &c. are frequently met with, and opened, in places where formerly no suspicion of their existence was entertained. The Journal des Mines for May, contains the following notification; "The zeal with which the study of fossils and petrifactions has been prosecuted for several years, has suggested to the members of the Bureau de Minéralogie established at Hanau in Wetteravia, the idea of forming systematic Compact felspar. — Upon visiting some collections of petrifactions, which they offer time ago the Druidical stones at Staunton to furnish in successive portions at stated Drew, I was very much surprised to find periods; and they flatter themselves, in them composed of rocks which I was per-consequence, with obtaining the approbafectly unaware had any existence in this tion and support of amateurs and the learn vicinity-a siliceous breccia and compact ed. These collections, it is said in the felspar. Iu returning a short time since German Prospectus published on the subfrom an excursion among the Mendip Hills,ject, will present not only in isolated indiI passed through the village of Harptree,iduals all the fine remains of the organic and I was very much struck by observing world, the greater part of which are lost about half a mile on this side Harptree, to us, but they will exhibit as perfect a view masses of compact felspar exactly resemas possible, in pieces well characterized bling the blocks at Staunton Drew, which and carefully selected. Scientific travellers had been brought together for the purpose will be sent into countries which are richof repairing the highway. All the infor- est in petrifactions, and will thus procure mation I could learn respecting them, was, the means of supplying gentlemen who form that they were taken from the adjoining collections, with series as complete as posfields, where I saw large slabs of them lying upon the surface, having been turned up by the plough. The cultivated state of the country prevented further examination: otherwise I have little doubt that the compact felspar would be found in situ, for the masses here were in nothing different as to composition from the blocks at Staun ton Drew. SUBSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR MINERALS. We notice with pleasure every attempt to enlarge theintercourse among the learned and ingenious. Many of the studies conHected with the sciences are expensive; to render that expense as little onerous as possible is praise worthy; and as the mode of publication in numbers has been found useful in the literary world, there seems to be no cause why the same principle of detail should not meet with equal success in other pursuits, where distribution is desirable, especially as in the mean time it does not prevent the acquisition of analagous articles more rapidly in any other manner. In the execution of the scheme, much will depend on the honour and honesty, on the skill and good fortune, of the publisher: but this cannot fail of being known in a short time: as subscribers will most surely render their discontent sufficiently sensible, if they find themselves supplied with articles not worth their money. sible. "But as an enterprize of this kind requires a considerable advance of money; and as it is desirable, before procuring from far distant countries, such as Italy, Switzerland, and France, the articles which have been already ordered, that a deposit should be made on which reliance can be placed, the plan of a subscription has been preferred. "Every delivery will be composed of fifty specimens of the size of two inches by four, for petrifactions still adhering to the matrix, or a proportionate number of isolated specimens when the petrifaction itself of each delivery will be six reichs thaler is within or beyond this size: and the price (about 17. 1s. English) to subscribers, and nine rix dollars (or 17. 1s. 6d.) to nonsubscribers. furnish specimens of an excellent quality; "The undertakers pledge themselves to and none shall be given twice, unless when the matrix happens to be different; which, on the contrary, will present a double interest to the amateur who makes the collection with a view to geognostic speculations. "A specification will accompany every delivery, and with the last will be given an explanatory and recapitulatory catalogue. "As to petrifactions of great price and rarity, one specimen will serve for several deliveries, and it will be valued accordingly. The deliveries will take place at intervals of from three to four months; so that in a few years the collection will be complete.The subscription for the first delivery, which will take place in November 1814, women; and thus he contrives to banish obliges the subscriber to take the two fol- gloom, and to make himself amends for the lowing: but payment in advance is expect-loss of a crown! It is possible, indeed, that ed for the first only; and every subscriber his present state is happier than his crowned is at liberty to decline taking more than state. Princely revenues, magnificent pathe three.. Any person procuring ten sub-laces, numerous attendants, &c. &c. are no scribers shall have a collection for himself such bad enjoyments-if they can be really gratis. It is proposed to exchange fossils enjoyed-after a series of usurpations, and with naturalists who reside in countries their close. The final termination of the which abound in petrifactions, and who eventful history yet remains. wish to procure this accommodation. Letters and money to be addressed (postage free) to Hanau by Frankfort on the Maine." A FEW LINES ON THE PRESENT STATE OF Madame Letitia, the mother, now at an advanced age, still takes care of her person; and makes her appearance in rouge. She is at Porto-Ferraio, in Elba, and seems likely to make it her abode. true, auecdotes of which this family is made Among the amusing-we do not say the the vehicle, one imports that the Genoese have been dreadfully alarmed for the independence and extent of their territory; so many sovereigus are competitors for various considerable portions of it! The little Napoleon, now Duke of Parma, demands for his portion-and determines to obtain it by conquest, too, the whole Gulf of Spezzia, with its territory. Terrified, Napoleon amuses himself in promoting bevond measure, at this danger, the repubpublic works in his island; such as roads,lic of Genoa sent deputies to Napoleon, the and other improvements. He has formed a library, singular in its kind it contains all the pamphlets, &c. published against him. An extensive collection, if complete! It is supposed, that various reports concerning himself, sufficiently remote from truth, originated with him, and have been promulgated by his order, by means of those wiseacres who visit his island. He is learning English, with great avidity; and his language master pronounces him a forward scholar: his progress in the language is rapid. The Princess Eliza is at Bologna, where she had an interview with the new Graud Duke of Tuscany; who found her at her music, singing. This lady reclaims the principality of Lucca and of Piombino; the Duke of Sora, of the house of Appiani, also reclaims Piombino, with its dependencies in the Island of Elba; Tuscany reclaims Lucca; and the Lucchese reclaim their independence. father, to intreat his interference to mode- As the and the third to Mlast affects a delicate scrupulosity on the subject of presents, and perhaps may refuse you, I will give you a letter of intro duction to him! ! !-Verbum sat. FRENCH THEATRE: THE BOXERS. French concerning their (almost unknown Among other prejudices taken up by the neighbours, the English, one is, that the Art of Boxing is favourite with the nation Under this persuasion, the French Stage at large, and forms a part of general study. has lately produced two satires on this Lucien Buonaparte, created by his Holi-island: the first at the Theatre des Vaudeness Prince of Canino, has received visits of congratulation from all the Excellentissimos and Altissimos at Rome. He is besides Count de Polnia, Signior de Memori, and other places, and member of the Institute of France. Pale and lean, he looks older than his years, which are more than fifty. He keeps a magnificent house, and is much in favour, as he was formerly, among the Romans. He is lively, and instructive in discourse, a great connoisseur in pictures, and at present extremely devout. King Pepe, or Joseph, discontented with the air of the Pays de Vaud, has also taken up his residence in the environs of Rome. He gave at the Chateau of Prangin superb festivals and balls, to a hundred pretty villes; Le Boreur Francais, ou une Heure a Londres: The French Boxer, or an hour in London; in one act, by M.M. Moreau, Damarsan, and Lafortelle; The second is at the Variétés; Les Deur Boreurs, ou les Anglais de Falaise et de Nanterre: The two Boxers, or the English of Falaise and Nanterre; a whimsical shew, in one act, by M. M. Désaugiers, Francis,and Simononin. It is remarkable, that each of these farces in one act, should require no less than three writers to do justice to a subject so recondite!--but Homer condescended to write the Baratromyomachia. The first of these pieces supposes two French boxers to engage in the attempt to pass themselves off for English boxers :-the thought is cold, and the interest it is capable of exciting, is a nullity. The piece at the Variétés, supposes a Frenchman, just arrived in London, to be learning the English language and the noble art of Boxing, at the same time: the ridicule is heightened by the instructions given in each, jostling each other: it is a parade in the full force of the term; a constant volley of puns, blunders, mistakes, and cross readings. All the world-the Parisian world--has run to see it; and all the world the Parisian world has laughed to the utmost extreme of laughter, at seeing it. If it is not wise, it is witty; if it is not accurate, it is amusing; it is diverting; it is droll when all is over, it is condemned as foolish! Ah! que c'est bête! It nevertheless triumphs over criticism: J'a ri... me voi! a désarme? By way of convincing our readers of the accuracy with which English manners are copied in this imitation, it is enough to say, that the two boxers, after their fisty cuffs, dance a ballet together on the stage ! ! ! LEIPSIC MICHAELMAS FAIR. A Vienna paper contains the following statements, which we believe to be generally correct. "The most business was without dispute done in articles the manufacture of Lyons, also in woollen cloths, cassimirs, &c. The latter has had a favourable influence on the price of wool, hitherto exceedingly depressed; but which, to the comfort of the landed proprietors, who have suffered severely, is now rapidly advancing. The Merino cloths produced in various Saxon manufacturing towns were in extraordinary request. An Armenian merchant from Teflis in vain offered Persian shawls for sale; the greater majority invariably preferred cheaper articles; and it was, upon the whole, one of the characteristic features of this fair, that the finer and more costly articles of luxury-laces, fine stuffs after the highly tasteful French patterns, jewellery, &c. found scarcely any sale, because the higher classes have not yet recovered from the heavy losses and poverty occasioned by the war. "England sent immense quantities of goods to Leipsic. For the first time, English hardware, improved by a hundred patent-inventions, was again to be had in abundance, and at very moderate prices. Such persons, too, as prefer English harness, in which all the leather-work is incomparably better than any that can be met with on the Continent, had an excellent opportunity of supplying themselves. Large orders for these articles arrived from all quarters, and extensive purchases were made. People were astonished when they saw the lists of orders. One single house wanted 17,000 dozens of buttons. The English, however, did not meet with an equally advantageous market for their cottous and printed stuffs. The deluge of these articles surpassed all conception. This was but natural; for whatever had been destined for the American States, was transferred to the Continent. Large quantities had gone by Holland and Belgium, but still larger came by way of Bremen and Hamburgh, to Leipsic. Owing, however, to improvements in taste and neatness on the Continent, and particularly in Switzerland, the patterns of these goods appeared old-fashioned, or at least not agreeable. The Swiss and Saxon dealers in those articles, therefore, obtained a preference over the English among the Polish and Macedonian buyers, and those who purchased for the consumption of Ger many. The English, however, sold almost all their stock to clear their warehouses. There were also some very fine new English goods, and these, as well as the best Swiss manufactures, great quantities of which had been sent from Frankfort to Leipsic, were in great request; and sold, by the piece, at the rate of 16 to 18 groschen (2s. to 2s. 3d.) per ell. Several Chemnitz houses, and particularly Becker and Hubner, did so much business that their warehouses seemed to be completely exhausted. The English were in want of Georgia cotton wool, which they, there fore, bought up at Hamburgh, and wher ever they could find any. The Saxon manufacturers found the price of the Mace donian and Levant cotton very high, being obliged still to pay 80 guilders for it. including the Austrian duties and carriage. How very much the balance of trade must be upon the whole in favour of England, is shewn by the progressively rising course of exchange, which has already got up from four rix dollars four groschen, to five rix dollars 21 groschen. The payment of subsidies is of course discontinued. On the other hand, the whole continent pays for a hundred necessary and indispensable articles of luxury far more to England, than England lays out on the continent. To this circumstance it must be chiefly as cribed, that colonial produce, instead of falling, as was at first expected, advanced a little, and, in all probability, will obtain still higher prices; but people are cautious of speculating in these articles. No branch of trade, perhaps, feels so keenly the effects of the war as the bookselling. The inspection of the catalogue of this fair shews, that if all the ephemeral productions of the press were subtracted, very little indeed would remain. Poetry. VERSES BY THE LATE RIGHT HON. HENRY BILSON LEGGE. Written during the present King's Minority God bless our young Prince, and endue him with grace, Make him first a good mau, and in time a good King, Make him wise and religious, and worthy and chaste, In fit time to supply his brave Grandfather's And send him instructors no worse than the place, Make his tutors and servants both faithful and clever, And his youth from all evil examples deliver. From nurses and gossips, who nothing so dread, As that over-much learning should burden the head, Who for teaching a Prince how to reason and speak, Prefer a French novel to Latin and Greek: From Jesuit historians to tyranny civil, Who declare English freedom the work of the Devil; Who prove WILLIAM a villain if JAMES be a fool, And that force is a King's only title to rule : From philosophers deep*, who think Hell but a notion, And virtue and vice only matter and motion; Bid the Bible feed moths on my Grandmother's shelf, And by algebra shew that the world made itself: From grave politicianst, who shrug and who wink, But have no time to speak, so profoundly they think, Who, while slanders are carried, demurely stand by, And enjoy the effects of another man's lie: From the nice men of fashion, who not for their life, Would tread on your toe, tho' they'd lie with your wife, Robinson, brother to the celebrated Mrs Montagu. + Stone, brother to the too famous Primate, and uncle to Mr. C. Arbuthnot, now Secretary of the Treasury. VOL. I. Lit. Pan. New Series. Dec. 1. last. TO AN OAK TREE, In the Church Yard of ** in the Highlands of Scotland, said to mark the Grave of Captain Wogan, killed in 1649. BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. Emblem of England's ancient faith, And valour fills a timeless grave. Repine not, if our clime deny Above thine honoured sod to bloom The flow'rets of a milder sky. These owe their birth to genial May; And can their worth be type of thine? Still higher swell'd thy dauntless heart, And while despair the scene was closing, Commenc'd thy brief but brilliant part. 'Twas then thou sought'st on Albyn's hill (When England's sons the strife resign'd,) A rugged race resisting still, And unsubdu'd though unrefin'd. Yet who in Fortune's summer-shine, To waste life's longest term away, Would change that glorious dawn of thine, Though darken'd ere its noontide day? Be thine the Tree whose dauntless boughs Brave summer's drought & winter's gloom! Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows, And Albyn shadows WOGAN's tomb, Ο $99] Leipsic Michaelmas Fair. - J'a ri... me voi ! a désarme? By way of convincing our readers of the accuracy with which English manners are copied in this imitation, it is enough to say, that the two boxers, after their fisty cuffs, dance a ballet together on the stage !! ! LEIPSIC MICHAELMAS FAIR. A Vienna paper contains the following statements, which we believe to be generally correct. [400 and the interest it is capable of exciting, is saw the lists of orders. One single house a nullity. The piece at the Variétés, sup-wanted 17,000 dozens of buttons. The poses a Frenchman, just arrived in London, English, however, did not meet with an to be learning the English language and equally advantageous market for their cotthe noble art of Boxing, at the same time: tous and printed stuffs. The deluge of the ridicule is heightened by the instruc- these articles surpassed all conception. tions given in each, jostling each other: it This was but natural; for whatever had is a parade in the full force of the term; a been destined for the American States, was constant volley of puns, blunders, mistakes, transferred to the Continent. Large quan and cross readings. All the world-the tities had gone by Holland and Belgium, Parisian world-has run to see it; and all but still larger came by way of Bremen the world the Parisian world has and Hainburgh, to Leipsic. Owing, how laughed to the utmost extreme of laughter, ever, to improvements in taste and neat at seeing it. If it is not wise, it is witty; ness on the Continent, and particularly in if it is not accurate, it is amusing; it is Switzerland, the patterns of these good diverting; it is droll-when all is over, it appeared old-fashioned, or at least no is condemned as foolish! Ah! que c'est bête! agreeable. The Swiss and Saxon dealeradma It nevertheless triumphs over criticism : in those articles, therefore, obtained a pr ference over the English among the Poli and Macedonian buyers, and those w purchased for the consumption of G many. The English, however, sold alm all their stock to clear their warehous There were also some very fine new E lish goods, and these, as well as the Swiss manufactures, great quantities which had been sent from Frankfort Leipsic, were in great request; and by the piece, at the rate of 16 to 18 chen (2s. to 2s. 3d.) per ell. Se Chemnitz houses, and particularly Bestizian and Hubner, did so much business their warehouses seemed to be compl exhausted. The English were in wa Georgia cotton wool, which they, fore, bought up at Hamburgh, and ever they could find any. The Saxon nufacturers found the price of the donian and Levant cotton very hig ing obliged still to pay 80 guilders including the Austrian duties and ca How very much the balance of trad be upon the whole in favour of Engl shewn by the progressively rising of exchange, which has already gott four rix dollars four groschen, to dollars 21 groschen. The pay subsidies is of course discontinue the other hand, the whole conting for a hundred necessary and indi articles of luxury far more to Eng. England lays out on the cont this circumstance it must be, cribed, that colonial produce, ing, as was at first expecte little, and, in all probabili still higher prices; but of speculating in of trade, perhaps, ↑ of the war as spection of tha? * "The most business was without dispute done in articles the manufacture | of Lyons, also in woollen cloths, cassimirs, &c. The latter has had a favourable influence on the price of wool, hitherto exceedingly depressed; but which, to the comfort of the landed proprietors, who have suffered severely, is now rapidly advancing. The Merino cloths produced in various Saxon manufacturing towns were in extraordinary request. An Armenian merchant from Teflis in vain offered Persian shawls for sale; the greater majority invariably preferred cheaper articles; and it was, upon the whole, one of the characteristic features of this fair, that the finer and more costly articles of luxury-laces, fine stuffs after the highly tasteful French patterns, jewellery, &c. found scarcely any sale, because the higher classes have not yet recovered from the heavy losses and poverty occasioned by the war. "England sent immense quantities of goods to Leipsic. For the first time, English hardware, improved by a hundred patent-inventions, was again to be had in abundance, and at very moderate prices. Such persons, too, as prefer English harness, in which all the leather-work is incomparably better than any that can be met with on the Continent, had an excellent opportunity of supplying themselves. Large orders for these articles arrived from || all quarters, and extensive purchases were made. People were astonished when th |