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LORD BYRON. Lord Byron and his Pet Bear-We perceive that our friend Moore has omitted some of the most whimsical of Lord Byron's juvenile pranks; amongst them, one which we remember was much laughed at, and became a stock story with the "knights of the whip," and drew many a half-crown from "lots of gemmen vot likes to ride on coachee's left." It is well known that the young poet had a favourite bear-they were remarkably partial to each other. One of his Lordship's great delights was to englove, and spar at Ursa, till the poet became tired and Ursa irritated; for though generally a tame and docile quadruped, he was inuzzled for fear of accidents. His Lordship was suddenly called down to Nottinghamshire. He had taken places for "two gentlemen" in a northern mail, in the names of Byron and Bruin. Twas a dark November night-the friends arrived in Lombard-street in a hackney coach a little before eight. The off-door of the mail, at his Lordship's demand, was open. ed, Byron placed his own travelling cap on Bruin's head and pushed him into the vehicle of letters," followed, and immediately made him squat on the seat, looking as "demure as a Quaker in a brown upper Benjamin." They occupied the whole of the back; and it so happened that the two B.'s (Byron and Bruin) were the only passengers who started from the Post Office, At Islington they took in a third, a retired Cit; he was a quidnunc! a Cockney! and a tailor! Old Snip's V's and H's in his short dialogue with the door-opening guard was quan. suff. for Byron-a pleasant companion for an educated Peer, young, proud, and splenetic! The bear's instinct pleased, but the Cockney's reason was emetical. Not a sound was heard within till ascending Highgato-hill. Alas! what is sciatica or gout compared to the infliction of silence on an old garrulous tailor? Snip took advantage of the hill-hemmed thrice, and broke silence with "Vell, Sir; a bit of nice noose in this here mornin's paper-vot d'ye think of them goings on of that there cowardly rascal Boneypart?" A pretended snore, "loud and deep," was his Lordship's only reply to the Cockney quidnunc's attack on the "" great soldier!" Snip was dead beat by the snore-he turned with disgust from his supposed sleeping opponent, and cast a longing eye towards the quiet gentleman in the fur cap in 'tother corner, and reopened his "vomitory of vociferation" with -"Hem! a nice bit of road this here, Sir, jest to Vetstun.-(no answer!)-He's a deaf un, perhaps ;" and in a louder key, he recom menced- A very dark cold night this here, Sir!" Like Brutus over Caesar's body, Snip paused for a reply, while the embyro Peer, to smother a laugh, was obliged to issue a tremendous snore that almost alarmed his quiescent friend Bruin. The tailor eased off from his snoring Lordship towards the supposed deaf gentleman, and, bent on conversation, was determined to have an answer; and, in defiance of Chesterfield, sought to seize a breast-button, but encountered nothing but

fur.

story is known, and still told, by many an Old Poor artificial Africans, Whip on the northern road.

A Nice Point of Honour." There happened a few weeks ago to be an election meeting in the country (I forget exactly where) at which the rustic politicians speechified with great violence, so much so as to attract the attention of the London newspapers, one of which published a lampoon upon the meeting, ridiculing especially a Mr. Jones, who appeared the most violent orator in it. Now Jones being a fiery and ambitious spirit, was enraged almost to madness at finding himself and his speech gibbited to the public derision, and determined in his indignation fo find out his satirist. Accordingly he wrote to the editor, who would give him no information; he then came up to town (so infuriated was he), and being upon inquiry told, I suppose, that Sir Nathaniel Callaghan was the author of every witty and severe thing that came out, he hastened to the residence of our friend, and asked him point-blank, if he was the author of such a pasquinade in such a newspaper? Nat, who had read and admired the lampoon,could not resist this tempting opportunity, and replied, that he must beg to be excused answering the question; which Jones understanding, of course, to be an admission, immediately poured forth upon him a tremendous volley of abuse, which he accompanied by a short, but vigorous application of his material, in retaliation of Callaghan's supposed moral scourge. Having done which, he flung out of the house, leaving its owner, as you may sup pose, astounded. When he recovered his selfpossession, he of course began to consider what was to be done. He had been abused and thrashed, under very peculiar and perplexing circumstances. His assailant was, unfortunately, not a gentleman, and therefore could not be pistoled. To bring an action of battery would not be a satisfactory proceeding; How, then, was the insult to be avenged? Irishmen are the special pleaders of the law of honour, and our friend was involving himself in all the subtleties of that code, in order to come at a form of procedure, and to collect all the precedents with which he was acquainted, which should meet the circumstances of the case. But after thinking all day upon the subject, he found his brain completely bothered, without being ever the nearer the object of his inquiry; so that there was a strong probability that he would be obliged to pocket his licking, from being unable to find any decision upon the singular point which he wished to elucidate. Next day, however, he was revisited by Mr. Jones, who came to make a thousand apologies for the outrage which he had offered him, and which was not intended for him, inasmuch as he had since discovered the real claimant in the author of the lampoon. Sir,' answered Nat, you have relieved me from much embarrassment: ever since I received the favour which you allude to, I have been studying how to acquit myself of the obligation; but as I find the thing was a mistake, and not intended for me, my course is clear, namely, to return it to you.' And accordingly he gave the fellow a sound drubbing."

MENT.

BY A JUVENILE CHIMNEY-SWEEP.

"Ah! Sir," bawled the tailor, this here's a werry nice varm travelling coat of your'n." Receiving no reply but a growl and a snore, Snip, in despair, gave his tongue a holiday-and slept. Aurora's early beams had already peeped into the coach-windows, when he awoke to unthought-of horrors; for COMMENTS UPON A RECENT ENACTthe first object which caught his sight was Bruin's head, with muzzled mouth but glaring eyes, within three feet of his own boiled gooseberry goggles. "Mercy!" he exclaimed, "the deaf gentleman in the nice varm travelling coat is a real live bear!-Help, murder! coach! stop!" roused the slumbering guard. "Let me out!" shouted Snip-and out he went; and the poet and his pet were left in full possession of the interior, while the tailor measured the seat of the box for the rest of the journey. The Way Bill is still extant, though not "written in choice Italian," as Hamlet says, but Lad-lane English; and the

[Among the new police regulations for particular districts in London, is one, prohibiting these little living machines from practising in "most musical the streets their ancient cry, most melancholy," of "sweep!" Their appearance (we presume, in a professional garb) before or after certain hours, is also forbidden.] Ye abolitionists, who plead

And mourn for blacks afar; Oh! see in us a nearer need, Hoine-negroes as we are.

The sooty imps of time,

Who stroll with skin no sunshine tans, To seek another climb!

What sage this new decree has given,

Our freedom thus to shelve? We must not pace the streets till seven, Nor walk there after twelve.

"Tis hard-when all, both high and low, May get up in the dark,

That we, poor black-birds, must not go To hear the merry lark.

At noon-when earth looks glad and green,
And half our work is done-
Our dusky forms must not be seen,
Like blots amidst the sun.

But oh! far more than this has stirred
The woes that will not sleep;
Our voices must no more be heard-
No more may say, "wee-weep."
That trembling, trickling, sooty sound
Is silent in the sky;

For tho' our tears should wash the ground,
They say we must not cry!

That note which made, though still and small,
A passage through the crowd,
Is hushed; for when aloud we call,
We're told, 'tis not allowed.
Oh! how were we of hopes bereft
In childhood's cheerful day;

They flew away ere long-but left

Along the flue a way!

We there a crooked passage find-
"Tis no uncommon fate;
For still, to dirty paths inclined,

Men rise above the grate.
But when the morning sun is hot,
And winds the chimney fan,
We shout and rattle round the pot,
As if it were a pan!

And then at length we take our sack,

But ab! with altered mien:
'Tis not like Falstaff's-for alack!
Our sack it makes us lean.
Oft as we sweep, the breeze sweeps too,
And stills our shivering tune;
A sea of tears then gushing through,
Becomes a Black Sea soon.

But over as our woes abate,

We leap up with the sun,
And long for all the charms that wait
On May-day and its fun.
Yet ah! should Mr. Peel so arch

Observe us as we stray!
Alas! that mind's pervading March
Should show itself in May!
Soon to our welfare we must cry
Farewell, if this be true.
A dew is now within my eye,
And on my lips, adieu!

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Things worth Knowing.-China was full of books before there was a man in Europe who could either read or write.-One of Mahomet's rules for securing happiness in the married state was this:-"Wives behave to your husbands in the same manner that your husbands behave to you."-Some of the bridges of London are built, and some of the streets paved, with Scotch stone: there are excellent freestone quarries near Bath, but the expense of conveyance to London by land is greater than from Scotland by sea.-' -The Athenians allowed no unmarried man to hold any public office.The custom of breaking a cake over the bride's head, when she enters her husband's house, is borrowed from the Greek, who, as an emblem of future plenty, poured figs and other fruits over the heads of both bride and bridegroom.The Greeks shaved their heads when they wished to show respect to the memory of a great man. A fluent speaker will pronounce 7200 words in an hour, 150 in a minute, and 2 in a moment.

Literary Port Folio.

The following notice of a late work of our highly respected townsman, Dr. Sega, is taken from the National Intelligencer, and we perceive has been copied into other papers, and is extensively circulated throughout the United States. We are glad to see this, for it is only necessary for Dr. Sega to be known, to insure his enjoying every where the same high reputation he has in this city.

DUELLING! DUELLING! DUELLING! [From the National Intelligencer.] Gentlemen, I have perused with much interest a pamphlet upon the practice of modern duelling, by James Sega, LL. D.

will be found a very interesting sketch of its unite the domestic circle, through all the relations of husband, father, and friend, equally history. distinguished both of these memorable men.

Newspapers in England, Scotland and Ireland. Some former Numbers of the Museum

contained two very interesting articles,-one upon the London Daily Papers, and one upon the London Weekly Papers. This article gives an account of the state of the newspaper press in the country in England, and in Scotland and Ireland.

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By far the greater portion of this volume consists of letters from Sir S. Raffles to various his widow, from those to whom they were adfriends; the originals having been collected by dressed; but all his own papers, of every description, relating to his government in Sumatra, wero destroyed when the ship was burnt in which he was returning to England. Those collected as above, Lady Raffles has placed in order, and connected by short explanatory notices and observations, in the manner and

Next follows an unfavourable review of Lan-style of which modesty and ability are equally don's and Montgomery's Poetry. It is well to hear both sides. The admirers of these poets, have praised them without moderation, but this appears to us a very fair review.

Haliburton's Nova Scotia,-is an American subject, and will be the more interesting to our readers, from the scarcity of such subjects in journals professing to be entirely American. In the Museum, we think we are safe in saying so, there are more articles upon American sub

Dr. Sega appears to have reflected much upon this subject, and has discussed it in a very able and judicious manner. He has traced it to its origin, and shows, that although it ori: ginated among barbarians, they conducted it with more magnanimity and valour than those who pursue the practice in this age of civilization. The contrast he draws between the chivalry of knight errantry, and the unhallow-jects, than in any other journal in America. ed passions which excite to modern duelling, is too just not to be admitted by every one; and it would be well for those, who point to the practice in the days of chivalry for their justi fication of duelling as it now exists, to reflect upon the marked distinction as clearly established by Dr. Sega. If Dr. Sega succeeds in calling attention to this subject, I am sure, from its importance to mankind at large, a speedy and effectual remedy will be provided for it; and his name will be enrolled among the benefactors of the human family. those who are memorializing Congress for the protection of southern Indians, and for the prevention of Sunday mails, turn their attention to this subject: it presents a wide field for the exercise of their philanthropic feelings, and ah! how happy will they be, if they can give such a direction to public sentiment, as will for ever crush this unnatural method of shedding a fellow being's blood. Let them read Dr. Sega's pamphlet, and it will kindle in their bosoms a flame, which nothing can extinguish but the suppression of the inhuman practice of duelling.

Rose's Southern Africa,-is a very interesting article, from the Monthly Review.

Mr. Dickson's Narrative,—of an attack made upon a party of travellers, proceeding from Mexico to the coast, in which all but one were

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Journal of Health.-We have looked over many numbers of the Journal of Health, published by Mr. Dobson in this city, with very great pleasure, and we hope not without profit. Advice for preserving the health, and other popular matter, is here given in the most attractive style, and of the soundest kind. This little work is published once in two weeks, at one dollar and a quarter a year. We advise every body who wants it sent by mail, to get three of his friends to join him, and remit five dollars in advance for the four copies. We mean to go back to the beginning, and read all the articles regularly again.

The Museum for May, is embellished with an elegant engraving by Longacre, of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Besides a great variety of shorter articles, poetry, &c. &c., it contains the following, of great interest:

The Maroon War.-This war was carried on between the Maroons and the English inhabitants of Jamaica, for a long time. The Maroons were the descendants of the aborigines, and of runaway negroes. It is frequently alluded to in all our papers, and this article

destroyed by banditti; the survivor, Mr. Dickson, having miraculously escaped with numerous wounds.

The West India Trade,-is a discussion of the policy of admitting Americans to it, from Blackwood's Magazine.

But the most valuable article in the whole Number, is that admirable one from the Quarterly Review, upon the Life and Public Services of Sir Stamford Rafles. This energetic and most excellent man, was not only a faithful servant of Great Britain, but deserves the gratitude of the world at large. The scene of his labours was the East Indies. An extract from the beginning of this article will be sufficient to excite the desire of our roaders to see the whole:-

"We rise from the perusal of this' Memoir' with feelings of the most gratifying nature. It is delightful to meet with such a book, concerning a part of the world from whence we are more accustomed to hear of crimes, cruel ties, tyranny, and misrule, than of such disinterested philanthropy, active benevolence, and unceasing exertions for the moral and religious improvement, and consequent happiness, of the human race as are herein displayed. In this respect, we know of hardly any work worthy of being compared to the volume before us, unless it be that of Bishop Heber, recently published, by the side of which it may be placed as a fit companion. There are, in fact, many points of resemblance between the two characters, though developed under widely different circumstances. Heber was a man of brilliant genius, improved by all the advantages of learning, and embellished by a highly refined taste.' Raffles, born in a humble sphere of life, received only a common education at one of those suburban schools called academies. But, unlike as they were in the circumstances of birth and education, we find in both, with very extraordinary talents, the same benevolent disposition-the same kindliness of feeling -the same cheerfulness of temper and buoy ancy of spirits-and the same unweariedness in doing good. That warmth of affection and strength of attachment, which enliven and

visible. On the whole, then, Sir Stamford Raffles is his own biographer. There is this disadvantage, that these familiar letters had most of them been written on the spur of the moment, as opportunities occurred, and evidently were never intended to meet the public eye. They are, therefore, not to be looked at in the light of studied compositions, in which words are weighed and sentences measured. The compensation is that, in the full and free scope of familiar correspondence, we have all the freshness and warmth of friendship, expressed in sentiments poured forth directly from the heart. We much regret that the letters of love and affection addressed by Sir Stamford to his lady, during their occasional separations, have not been preserved like those of that kind which charm the reader of Heber's correspondence-these all perished in the same catastrophe with the whole of their property.

"We are fully convinced, that no individual, before or since his time, has possessed so extensive a knowledge of the commerce, resources, laws, language, and customs, of the varied population of the great eastern Archipelago, and more particularly of the two magnificent islands of Java and Sumatra, as did Sir Stamford Raffles. All his views and conceptions with regard to them appear to be sound and statesman-like; indeed, his talents and acquirements were evidently such as constitute a great man;-but how useless, comparatively, would these have been had he not also happened to be a good one! The ease with which he was accessible to all classes, his placid temper and persuasive manners, appear to have gained all hearts, and to have enabled him to mould them to his own measures. possessed over all ranks, that, with the aid of Such, indeed, was evidently the influence he missionaries of enlightened minds, whom he eagerly sought after, we have very little doubt he would have succeeded in bringing the four million inhabitants of Sumatra, half Mahomedan, half pagan, within the pale of Christianity, in the space of a very few years."

Our limits oblige us to omit all notice of much other valuable matter in this Number.

The Museum is published at the same office with the Literary Port Folio, and on this account, has not heretofore been so noticed, as we should have been bound to notice it, had we been a disinterested witness. But we really do not see why we may not with perfect propriety, recommend the Museum as being replete with interest, and full of articles written with great taste and talent. Indeed, with the rich field for selection, that is open to us for it, it could only be a wilful blindness, or shameful indolence, that could make it other

wise.

It is published every month, at six dollars a year. Each number contains a beautiful engraving. Subscriptions thankfully received by E. Littell.

In the year 1821, France exported 1,500,000 leeches in 1826, the number was increased to the prodigious amount of 33,650,000.

Varieties.

Portrait of a Voluptuary in Feeling-If contempt were not an unchristian feeling that should be checked on every occasion as soon as it arises within the mind, I know one cha. racter at least by which it might be excited in a very forcible degree. It is that of the volup: tuous inan, who, in the vigour of his health and manhood, caters for his comfort like a convalescent-a helpless creature, who is afraid to burthen with the weight of his own frame a set of muscles capable of upholding a burthen that would strain the back of a young horse. He shrinks like a blasted nabob from the slightest breath that agitates the perfumed atmosphere of his apartment, and stuns your ears with accounts of draughts from the windows and from the doors, together with expedients for their modification, until you fancy you are speaking with a poor terrified Italian of the malaria. He makes a greater preparation for shaving his beard in the morning than a sensible man would use before the amputation of a limb, and considers the keenest edge no finer than a handsaw. He inquires of his man ere he descends, what way the wind blows, and takes his seat on the lee side of the screen, lest he should be blown away by one of those awful parlour hurricanes while he is eating his potted shrimps and chocolate. To excess, indeed, of all kinds he is a stranger; but the love of virtue is not the safeguard which protects him. He is thoroughly sensual; but the labour of an intense enjoyment is the Rubicon which he will not pass. He creeps, and shrinks, and shivers himself into a premature old age; and is at length moulted out of the world by dyspepsy and hypochondriasm.

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"In this manner my father employed his time. He wrote epistolary dedications for the musicians, of which I possess several; he sketched the plot of a comedy for a dramatist who could only write, and wrote for the one whose forte lay in plots; he made prefaces and introductory discourses to suit the wants of those who applied to him. One day a man came to him to beg him to write an advertisement of some pomatum which was to make the hair grow; he laughed heartily, but did what was requested. He did not always labour, however, for the mere sake of obliging. He had given up to his wife the whole of his little income, and very rarely asked her for money, and then only for trifling sums. spent a great deal however; he was fond of cards, played very ill, and always lost; he liked riding in hackney coaches, often forgot them at the doors of houses where he stopped, and had a whole day's fare to pay. The females to whom he was attached cost him con

with which he asserted the cause of the latter
monarch after the revolution, the military skill
with which he supported it at the battle of Kil-
liecrankie, and by his own death in the arms of
victory. It is said by tradition that he was
very desirous to see, and to be introduced to, a
certain Lady Elphinstoun, who had reached
the advanced age of one hundred years and up-
wards. The noble matron, being a staunch
Whig, was rather unwilling to receive Cla-
ver'se, (as he was called from his title,) but at
length consented. After the usual compli-
ments, the officer observed to the lady, that
having lived so much beyond the usual term
of humanity, she must in her time have seen
many strange changes. "Hout, na sir," said
Lady Elphinstoun," the world is just to end
with me as it began. When I was entering
life, there was ane Knox deaving us a' with his
clavers, and now I am ganging out, there is
ane Claver'se deaving us a' with his knocks.
Clavers signifying, in common parlance, idle
chat, the double pun does credit to the inge-siderable sums, which he was anxious my mo-
nuity of a lady of a hundred years old.-The
Waverley Novels, No. X.-Old Mortality.

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Sang Froid-It is notorious, (says Marmontel, in his incomparable biography,) that with much nobleness and dignity of soul, Marshal Saxe was fond of mirth and jollity. By taste, as well as by system, he loved merriment in his armies, saying that the French never did so well as when they were led on gaily; and what they most feared in war was weary inactivity. He had always a comic opera in his camp. It was at the theatre that he gave the order of battle; and on those occasions the principal actress used to come forward and say, "Gentlemen, to-morrow there will be no play, on account of the battle the Marshal gives: after to-morrow, the Cock of the Village, with the Merry Intrigues,'" &c.

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Use of Perfumes.-Look upon it ever as a sign of a masculine intellect and a strong understanding to neglect the voluptuous gratification of this sense (of smell). This is a folly which should be left altogether to the mascu. Melton Mowbray, March 8.-A great sensaline imitators of the weaker sex. They are tion has been produced here by a robbery of as shameless slaves to it, whose chambers are. flagrant and audacious a character as any on filled with wasteful odours: who expend on record. On Wednesday last Lord and Lady vials of unwholesome perfume that wealth Southampton gave a grand dinner to the prin which is committed to them for the advantage cipal nobility and gentry of Melton Hunt, at of their fellow creatures, and whose study ap- their residence, Quorndan-Hall, near Loughpears to be that they may leave no breath unborough. Lady Southampton visited her drawpoisoned or unpolluted of the fresh and whole-ing-room at the hour of nine o'clock, at which some air that surrounds them. A man that is wrapped up in perfumes is surely a pitiable

creature.

This fashion, which was once disgustingly prevalent, is now confined, in a great measure, to persons of vulgar and mean habits, who are not only heedless of their religious obligations, but ignorant of the customs of good society, Still, however, the folly is not wholly banished from even the better informed classes of mankind; and it is a hideous cruelty, that a gentleman of moderate fortune will keep in his desk, for the purpose of perfuming note-paper, a vial of perfume, the price of which would pay the house-rent of a poor peasant in our provinces for a whole year. There is, besides,' a manifest rudeness in the use of artificial odours, which no well educated person ought to offer to society. Predilections in this sense are as various as in that of taste; and it seems as unreasonable, that a man should compel every person he meets to inhale that single odour which he thinks agreeable (but which to many may be quite the reverse), as if a host should measure the tastes of his company by his own, and oblige them all to partake of a certain dish, because it happened to be his favourite.

period every thing remained in its usual order.
About one o'clock her Ladyship's waiting maid
having occasion to enter, found the door fas-
tened on the inside. Surprised at so unusual
an occurrence, she hastened to her Ladyship
in the drawing-room, and communicated the
circumstance. After several attempts had
been made to induce any person who might be
secreted within to come forward, the door of
the apartment was with great difficulty forced
open, when it was discovered that some daring
villain, entering from the window, and securing
the door to prevent interruption, had carried
off the whole of Lady Southampton's bijoutry,
including the family diamonds and other pre-
cious stones to the amount of several thousand
pounds. An alarm was instantly given, mes-
sengers were despatched in all directions to
apprize the Magistrates of the robbery, and a
reward of £500 was offered for the apprehen-
sion of its perpetrators. Hitherto nothing has
transpired to lead to their detection.

A VOLUME of Memoirs of the Life and Writ-
ings of the celebrated Diderot, by his daugh-
ter, Madame de Vandeul, will shortly make its
appearance. The manuscript had been in the
hands of Baron Grimm, who had sent it to a
John Grahame of Claverhouse.-This re- German prince, whose correspondent he was.
markable person united the seemingly incon- A copy of it was recently allowed to be taken,
sistent qualities of courage and cruelty, a dis- which has fallen into the hands of a Paris
interested and devoted loyalty to his prince, bookseller, who is about to publish it. Some
with a disregard of the rights of his fellow sub-piquant extracts from it have already appear
jects. He was the unscrupulous agent of the
Scottish privy council in executing the mer-
ciless severities of the government in Scot
land, during the reign of Charles II. and James
II.; but he redeomed his character by the zeal

ed in the Gazette Littéraire, a clever weekly
periodical, which has been recently started in
Paris on the plan of our own Literary Gazette.
We copy the following description of this en-
cyclopedist and philosopher's habits:

He

ther should know nothing of. He never denied himself a book: he had a taste for prints, gems, and miniatures, of which he made presents within a day or two after he had bought them; but he required money to meet all these expenses. He laboured, therefore, for public bodies, for magistrates and others who could recompense him liberally for his work. He composed discourses for advocates-general, addresses to the king, parliamentary remonstrances, and various other things, which, he said, were paid three times their value. It was with the little sums he received in this manner that he satisfied his taste for making presents, and the little luxuries of life."

Here is the account of his death: "He went to occupy a splendid suite of apartments, which had been hired for him by the Empress of Russia in the Rue Richelieu. He enjoyed them but twelve days; he was enchanted with them; having always lodged in a garret, he thought himself in a palace. But his body became weaker every day; although his head was not at all affected, he was firmly persuaded that his end was approaching; but he said not a word about it, from a wish to spare the feelings of the persons about him, whom he saw plunged in sorrow; he occupied himself in every thing that could divert and deceive them; every day he was arranging something new, putting his prints in order, &c. The night before his death a more convenient bed was brought for him; the workmen took a great deal of trouble in placing it properly. My friends,' said he to them, 'you are taking infinite pains there for a piece of furniture which will not be wanted for more than four days.' In the evening he saw his friends. The conversation turned upon philosophy, and the various roads of arriving at that science. The first step towards philosophy,' said he, 'is incredulity. This remark is the last which he pronounced in my presence. As it was late, I left him, in the hope of seeing him once more.

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"He got up on Saturday, the 30th of July, 1784; he conversed all the morning with his son-in-law and his physician; he had his blistering plaster removed, as it gave him pain; he set down to table, took some soup, some boiled mutton and succory; he then took an apricot, which my mother wished to dissuade him from eating. But what possible harm do you think that can do me?' He did eat it; then rested his elbow on the table in order to cat some preserved cherries, and coughed slightly. My mother asked him a question, and receiving no answer, she raised her eyes and looked at him-he was no more!"

BARON HUMBOLDT has returned to Berlin from his excursion to the Ural mountains of Siberia. His observations on these mountains have led to a remarkable discovery. More than two years since, struck with the extreme resemblance between them and the mountains of Brazil, he was convinced that diamonds

ought to be found in Siberia as well as in America. This opinion was more strongly confirmed in his mind during his last excursion there, and from his observation the Comte de Pollier, who accompanied him, was impressed with the same conviction. This nobleman, (who is married to the Princess Schakanskoi, the proprietress of considerable estates in the Ural chain,) after quitting the Baron, when the latter took the road to Tobolsk, recrossed the mountains in order to visit his wife's property, situated on the western or European declivity of the Ural. He gave orders to make search in a washing of gold, situated 25 wersts to the N. E. of Bissersk, and 250 wersts E. of Peru. This has been attended with complete success; and though no machine has yet been constructed, the children employed to wash the gold on tables have already found seven diamonds. Machines are now getting ready to make this precious mineral the subject of regular working.

Nervous Affections.-The late Dr. Wollaston. -An impression made on one part of the body will often produce a nervous affection elsewhere, at a distance from the original seat of the disease, and where no such obvious explanation of the fact presents itself. A disease in the liver produces a pain in the right shoulder; a disease in the heart produces a pain in the back. The late Dr. Wollaston was accustomed to relate the following:-He ate some ice-cream after dinner, which his stomach seemed to be incapable of digesting. Some time afterwards, when he had left the dinnertable to go to the drawing-room, he found himself lame from a violent pain in one ankle. Suddenly he became sick; the ice-cream was ejected from the stomach; and this was followed by an instantaneous relief of the pain in the foot. From a Lecture by Mr. Brodie.

Extraordinary Power of Whistling.—Mr. Dovaston, the friend of the celebrated artist and engraver on wood, Thomas Bewick, in a biographical article published in the Magazine of Natural History, gives the following account of his extraordinary faculty for whistling: As he sat at work, I enjoyed his more deliberate and sound conversation, accompanied by strains of his most extraordinary powers of whistling. His ear (as a musical feeling is called) was so delicately acute, and his inflexorial powers so nice and rapid, that he could run, in any direction or modulation, the diatonic or chromatic scale, and even split the quarter notes of the enharmonic; neither of which, however, did he understand scientifically, though so consummately elegant his execution: and his musical memory was so tenacious, that he could whistle through the melodies of whole overtures; and these, he said, he could obtain, having once heard from the orchestra of a play-house, or a holiday band, in both of which he took extreme delight. In proof of this I tried him to some extent, by flinging on his pianoforte several wild airs I had taken down from pipers in the Hebrides and Highlands, of difficult and intricate evolution, which he completely repeated the first time. Lest he might have heard these before, I farther sprinkled at him (without information of their originality.) several private imitations, I had myself composed, of various national melodies, which he not only instantly and spiritedly whistled, but remembered long after; as I found when sauntering with him amid the mountains of Derbyshire."

Fowls with Human Faces.-M. Jules Guérin, in presenting to the Academy of Sciences of Paris, the first number of his Medical Gazette, called the attention of the Society to the account of a hen now living in Russia, and having a profile resembling that of a human being. On this M. Cuvier observed, that there was a portrait of a similar animal in the Jardin du Roi: and M. Geoffroy Sainte Hilaire said he was very well acquainted with

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RULES OF THIS PRISON.

1 that Evry Member Must rise in the Morning and wash his hans and face

2 each room must Pe swep twice in each Day and washed once in Eash week 3 No setting or ling on the Beds in the Day time.

4 No one member received from the Oil Mill without being scoured an washed and Close Burnt.

5 All the Rum that Can be got without the Sheriff noing of it Must be Devided

6 All visitors Must try to fetch what Rum they Can Given under our hands this the 15th Day of April 1830

Michael, Mowra
Henry, Yowe
Barney, Canon
Chauncey, Good vich
and Leonard

Richard Gawly if he was here.

Female Preacher of Rank.-The young, beautiful, and fascinating Irish widow, the Viscountess Powerscourt, is preaching and expounding the scriptures at public assemblies in Brussels, with eloquence and fervour. She opens her service with a hymn, of which, after touching a piano forte, she gives out the melody and first stanza.-Scotsman.

Peter Pindar-During his last illness, his fair secretary delivered into his hands a sealed packet, which had been left by a gentleman in black, with an injunction that it might instantly be delivered into his hands. "Open it, my dear," said Dr. Walcot, "and let us hear what it is." It proved to be a long exhortation to an amendment of life and a preparation for futurity. Dr. Walcot exclaimed, "Burn itburn it-I will not hear a word more. Put it black, if he comes here again, to go about his into the fire directly, and tell the fellow in business. He may be the devil for aught I know."

Perfection of Punning-A celebrated living author lately observed, that he rarely made a

pun;

"but when I do," said he, "I'm very proud of it, for it is always the very worst that ever was made, and therefore excellent. The other day," he continued, "a lady spoke to me about Mr. 's gallery of pictures, and remarked, that she should very much like to get an introduction to see them. Well, said I, he is my friend, and you shall go-you shall go and pick his pocket. Pick his pocket! she exclaimed, why should I do so? Why, said I, because he has PICT-URES."— Scotsman.

Judicious Change of one Letter.—It is said that Mr. Canning met one of the late Lord Sheffield's innumerable, pamphlets in the library of some country friend. The tract is stated to have begun with a sentence like the following: "There can be no doubt that, under a due system of protection, the growth of British Wools might be greatly increased, and that our domnestic Wools might eventually be enabled to stand the competition of the Wools of the continent." The day being gloomy, and society not brilliant, the witty statesman changed every Winto an F, and in this new shape he left the essay for the amusement and instruction of the neighbourhood.

A very singular circumstance happened in the neighbourhood of this town. Mr. Southern and a party of friends were coursing, by permission of Lord Talbot, when a hare having been started, two greyhounds, hot in pursuit head, and such was the violence of the concus from opposite directions, met, forehead to foresion that they both were killed on the spot!— Stufford paper.

kisson.-He looked with astonishment at the Portrait of Don Miguel, drawn by Mr. Huscharacter of Don Miguel. It was amazing that so young a man could have accomplished so much wickedness in so short a time; for, at the early age of six and twenty, this man-this Don Miguel-had perpetrated every crime, and displayed every vice, which historical truth or historical fiction had attributed to the most sanguinary monsters that ever waded through the blood of innocent people in pursuit of their ambitious objects. It was to be hoped that he would finish a life of infamy by a death of violence. [From the Morning Journal.] A Sentiment of the Stoics. SONNET.

"Arcana naturæ penetrat, et scrutatur cœlestium cau-
sas, et in profunda terrarum purmittere aciem juvat.”—
Seneca
The soul enlarged from this encircling clay,
So taught the Stoic, shall for ever roam
Through starry worlds, yet ever be at home,
Where comets mark with fire their devious
way,

Or suns diffuse a never dying day;
Trace every whirling orb, behold the springs
Which move this complicated frame of things,
And scan the spheres in their concentric play.
The thought was great, and in a Pagan strange
-Yet why prefer the streamlet to the fount?
Why be content through noblest worlds to

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speculation of colonizing the Poyais territory, An attempt is again making to revive the with which the name of Sir Gregor M'Gregor was connected a few years since.

The Portuguese government has issued a decree for the cultivation of the mulberry tree, as a commencement to the culture of silk, for which several of the Portuguese provinces are well suited.

A very important trial came on at Edinburgh on Tuesday, at the instance of Sir William Forbes & Co, bankers, against the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company. The issues were to ascertain whether a policy of insu

rance, effected on the life of the late Earl of Marr, and which had been assigned to Sir William Forbes & Co., was valid, it having been averred that his Lordship had been in the practice of taking opium to a pernicious extent. After a trial which lasted twelve hours, and a brief consultation on the part of the jury, the latter returned an unanimous verdict in favour of the pursuers. This verdict is decisive of claims to a very considerable amount, found upon policies effected on the same life in several other offices.-North Briton.

THE LITERARY PORT FOLIO. It is intended that this journal shall contain such a variety of matter as may make it acceptable to ladies as well as to gentlemen; to the young as well as to the old. While we shall take care that nothing be admitted which would render the work unfit for any of these classes, we shall endeavour to procure for it sufficient ability to entitle it to the attention of all of them. To these ends we have secured an abundant supply of all foreign and domestic journals and new books-and we ask the assistance of all who are qualified to instruct or amuse the

public. Upon this assistance we depend in a great degree for our hopes of success, for however the abundant stores to which we have access, may enable us to supply matter highly interesting to our readers, we think it of even more importance to give them something peculiarly adapted to the present time and circumstances; something from home.

No. 21.

PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27,

See advertisement on the last page for a notice of a change in the proprietorship of this work. It will hereafter be published at No. 22, Carter's Alley, by Mr. Harding.

LAST DAYS OF P. JOLIN, Executed Oct. 1829, in the Island of Jersey,

England, for Parricide."

Ir will be in the recollection of many of your readers, that in the month of September last, an awful instance of parricide, committed in the island of Jersey, was presented to the public: The circumstances of the case were as follows:-Philip Jolin, a young man, professedly working with his father as a blacksmith, but in reality given over to habits of extreme intemperance, had on the morning on which the crime was committed, as he confessed to one who attended upon him in prison, drunk such a quantity of spirits as to have be come completely intoxicated. His parents had. both of them lived in habits of drunkenness, and by their example the son had probably been drawn to the dreadful course which ended in his ignominious death. His mother had died eight months before this period. Going to his home on the day when he committed the crime, a home of which he himself said no person knew the wretchedness, he found no food prepared; and he met with only the comfortless reception which might be expected under his own actual state, and the circumstances of his father's situation and character. He went into the garden and gathered a pear, about which a quarrel ensued with his father, attended with some personal violence. The son at first threatened his father; but, being further remonstrated with, he went out, and picked up a brick, which he broke in two pieces, and, returning, threw them at his father's head. These blows caused his imimediate death. Utterly unconscious of what he had done, young Jolin went away again, and slept for some time, till his fit of intoxication had passed; and then, when he was quietly returning to the scene of his crime, he was arrested and brought to prison. The judges, and two juries, in number together thirty-seven, after two long trials, carefully examining all the details of the case, pronounced his crime to be murder, and condemned him to death. He underwent his sentence on Saturday, October 3.

There were many particulars in this case, in addition to the peculiarity of the crime, and indeed the rareness of any crime of such magnitude in the small district in which it occurred, that gave it great notoriety. One leading feature of it was the manifest alteration which took place in Jolin's mind during the period. of his imprisonment. Upon this point there was a very remarkable agreement of opinion amongst all persons who had any acquaintance with the real circumstances of the case. Not only ministers, both of the church and the dissenters, but persons of other classes agreed in the reality of a change; the nature of which, however, not so many persons could detect, as the effect of its operation. The public press in that island, speaks of an "alteration" which took place in him, of his "confession in the most humble terms of his own sinfulness," of "his forcible admonitions to others to abstain from evil, and to practise the duties of religion and morality;" but of the great radical change of the heart which this case exhibited, the writers seem to have had no adequate conception. Jolin may, however, be cited not merely as a man convinced of sin, reformed in character, and zealous in warning others, but as thoroughly converted in heart by the power of

the Holy Ghost, led to acknowledge not only

particular sins, especially that which led to his heart from God, and persuaded that all his antimely end, but his general alienation of repentance, all his good resolutions, could never expiate his past sins, but that, as he himself said, "Christ was his only hope; for He had paid his ransom, and He would receive him into glory."

I am myself, sir, one of those persons who have in general little confidence in a repentance which only springs up under the apprehension of death, whatever flights of sentiment, or depths of experience, may be exhibited. I have too often seen to demonstration, in the backsliding of those who promised every thing in the time of sickness, how vain had been the best founded expectations. In the greater part of these cases, however, there is generally a want of completeness, which the experienced pastoral visiter is able to detect: too little of real contrition, or too much of profession and confidence. But in the case in question, I have not been able to restrain myself from joining in the conviction of one who was much with Jolin in his imprisonment, and who declared this instance came to him with the sort of power which he could have supposed produced by witnessing the case of the thief on the cross. I shall not, therefore, hesitate in giving you a few of the particulars which I have been able to collect, and which will, I trust, be interesting to a considerable.body of your readers.

Jolin appears in early life to have been sent to school, although he said that such had been the irregularity of his father's house, and such the hindrances thrown in his way, that he had been more impeded, than encouraged by his parents, in any attempt to attend upon the public means of instruction. How tremendous was the responsibility of such a father and mother! culpable in their neglect, but awfully so in the influence of their example. And what a striking instance does the case of one parent present, of retributive justice at 'the Divine hand! The father trained his child in habits of intoxication; and the son, in a fit of intoxication, hurried his father headlong to the bar of God's judgment. We are not able, often, so clearly to trace the Almighty hand made bare against the sinner as in this case; nor is it in the dispensation of rewards and punishments under which we are placed, that men should be recompensed in this life: still we know, that as a man sows he shall also reap, if not in this world, to bring him to repentance, yet surely, and how much more awfully! in that world where a place for repentance is no where found.

This young man, on occasions previous to his committal, had read the Bible; for he remarked to one of his attendants that when at sea, during his watch, he had done so; but he added, "I then read it as a sealed book. I had neither eyes given me to see, nor ears to hear, and this was a just judgment upon me for my sins." His mode of life had been altogether one of complete dissoluteness. He went to sea because he was too bad to remain on land, and he came to land again because he was wearied of the sea. His whole family, moreover, had been separated from their relations by their extremely bad character. They were disgusted at the shameful scenes of drunkenness exhibited in his father's house. It is not easy to conceive a state of lower degradation than this young man had reached, as he himself confessed. No one, he said, could tell the misery of this state as he experienced it. What situation could indeed more completely have tended to brutalize the mind, to deaden every feeling of conscience, to place a man long habituated to it in a state without hope, as

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it was without God in the world? The nature of the crime for which Jolin was committed to prison, was such as to increase the general horror towards him. This was exhibited by the crowd, in the streets, on the occasion of his trial; so that it seemed to be of him, as is expressed in the emphatic language of the prophet, "None eye pitied him, to have compassion upon him; but he was cast out, to the loathing of his person." Yet out of this state it pleased God to call him. It is true there were mitigating circumstances in his case which he might very naturally have urged to extenuate the enormity of his offence; as the exceeding badness of his education, the. continual discord of his father's family, and the state of intoxication in which he was when he unintentionally committed the crime: but these points were scarcely alluded to by him in his private conversations, so completely was the conviction established in his mind that he had fallen into sin by the wilfulness of his own heart; that he had destroyed himself, and that to a greater depth of transgression he could scarcely have reached.

After Jolin had been lodged in gaol, he was visited by a very respectable relative, Mr. Pinel, a member of the Methodist church. He made this visit as ho himself testified, without the hope of any spiritual benefit. He, however, desired to relieve his temporal necessities, and to afford him all the comfort in his power. He found the poor culprit in a most pitiable state. Overwhelmed and stunned by his situation, he was lying on a heap of straw, and appeared like one who had no hope to look to in this world or the next. Mr. Pinel said to him, "Young man, I think both your body and your soul are in great danger." Jolin did not answer, but sobbed excessively. He then procured for him a bed, and some coinfortable clothing, and put into his hands a French Testament.

Although Jolin's crime was so palpable, and he confessed it in the clearest manner, yet it was committed so unconsciously to himself, and he had seen no traces of it except in what others told him, that the whole seemed like a dream; and the deed itself with its appalling circumstances, were not likely to fasten themselves on his mind as if it had been premedi tated, or as if he had been in full possession of his understanding, or as if he, which he himself wished, had seen his father's murdered corpse. However, this circumstance afterwards appeared to turn out to his advantage. It prevented him from fixing his thoughts exclusively on a particular sin; and he was thus less hindered in seeing the sinfulness of all his nature and habits, and learning that lesson which it is often so difficult to comprehend, that we are not less condemned by the law of God for all our sins, and our alienation from him, than for any one or more great of fences which we may have committed. Not that this state of mind in Jolin prevented him from coming to the deepest sense of his own particular offence; for as he learned more thoroughly to understand the nature of sin in general, his feeling for his own crime more deeply penetrated in his mind. One other subject seemed to produce in him the paroxysm which the mention of his father had done: this was the sin of intemperance, which had, as I have before remarked, been the immediate cause of his crime. Mr. Hall, thinking that he might be suffering from the cold, fixed as he was in a large stone chamber, of which the window was usually open, guarded him against seeking to mitigate his discomfort by drinking. At the mention of this, he went off again into expressions of horror at such a possibility in his tremendous circumstances, and of determination that, should he ever have the opportunity, he

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