itself, more attractive to the majority, has flourished most. Science, indeed, requires the sort of encouragement we have mentioned, more than literature. Its outside is not attractive enough, at first sight, to catch the superficial observer. Motives, extraneous to itself, must be held forth to induce its cultivation. A Jardin du Roi' in France has done more for the extension of natural history in that country, than all the labours of private amateurs could ever have done without it.

intimate relation between organised beings, and the local circumstances by which they are surrounded, the structure of peculiar organs which necessitate a modification of all the others, and fix irreversibly the habits and mode of existence of the animal,-the varieties produced by accidental causes, and the grand and permanent distinctions, whose preservation has been guarded by jealous nature with impassable barriers, the proportionate development of the intellectual principle following the varieties of orThis leads us to the second reason, which, in- ganisation,—and, in fine, the astonishing results of deed, follows naturally from the first. Natural that mysterious cause, which our ignorance has History, not being popular among us from our termed instinct:-all these are surely subjects of habits, from its less obvious external attractions, the highest interest, and constitute the essential and from the want of encouragement on the part province and peculiar charm of Zoology. The of Government, has obtained no commercial value writers who unfold them are deserving of the in England. This is a most powerfully influential gratitude and admiration of mankind, as much as cause of its neglect. It would operate any where; those who employ themselves in disguising and but here, from our essentially commercial charac-degrading the science, by a cacophonous nomenter, it must operate more strongly than elsewhere. clature, and a parade of barbarous latinity which The value of every thing in this country depends fools think learning, are entitled to reprobation upon what it will fetch. Nothing is esteemed, and contempt. There are many such in France, except in proportion to its demand, as a luxury, and some among ourselves, great men in their or its direct practical utility, as almost a necessary little circles: they do well to make the most of of life. Literature is in the first-mentioned this; for they may rest assured, that, however highly they may rank in their own estimation, or in that of their coteries, the world neither knows nor cares any thing about them.

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dicament, and, accordingly, we find it a very extensive and profitable article of commerce. The Mechanical, Chemical, and Medical sciences, are in the second, and they hold the next rank in profit and popularity. As to Natural History, it is esteemed as little more than an object of idle curiosity to a few, from which no amusement can be derived, and no profit. It is neither a luxury, nor a necessary of life,; therefore, it has no commercial value, therefore, it is neglected; it is abandoned to the attention of a few gentlemen, whose independent fortune, or disinterested spirits, enable them to pursue knowledge for its own sake; and the profits of it, such as they are, fall to the share of Messrs. Cross and Wombwell, et id genus omne.

The third reason originates with men of science themselves, in this peculiar department. They have taken little or no pains to render this study generally interesting and attractive; they have confined themselves too much to mere classification, definition, and dry description, and neglected to render prominent what is important in the philosophy, and pleasing in the details, of the subject. Added to this, is the very unfortunate degree of complication and confusion existing in the nomenclature of many departments of Natural History All this has proved a source, and a very natural source, of disgust, to many persons, against the study of Zoology. We regret, too, to say, that the evil, so far from being diminished, has increased, and is still increasing: almost every new writer on the subject deems himself justified in multiplying subdivisions, and coining new names, most of them more absurd and barbarous than their predecessors. There is no greater desideratum than a judicious well-digested manual of Zoology, in which there shall be no unnecessary multiplication of subdivisions, into which no new names shall be admitted, except for new species, and no more names than are absolutely indispensable. Were such a work once done, and well done, the sooner the systems of former nomenclators were committed to the flames, the better.

Such appear to us to be the principal, if not the only causes, which have retarded the progress of Zoology among us, and rendered too general the singularly ill-founded opinion, that the pursuit itself is uninteresting, if not uninstructive. The truth, indeed, is exactly the reverse. The study is

'Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.'

There are, on the contrary, few studies better calculated to expand the mind, and gratify our natural thirst of knowledge. The gradation and interapproximation of animal forms, amid whose countless variations a relation to a given standard can be traced, to one common and original type,-the

The Numbers now under our notice contain the Accipitres, Translation, &c., and Supplement, and part of the translation of the next order, the Passeres.

tions of persons entitled to vote or interfere on the occasion, are very distinctly expounded in the concluding chapter of the book; and an enumeration is added, in the form of an Appendix, of the penalties to which returning and other officers are liable for neglect or wilful abandonment of duty. Abundant references, too, are made, under every head, to Acts of Parliament and works of legal authority, in support of the statements in the text. Lastly, the whole subject is comprised within a volume of only 150 pages, a circumstance which we certainly regard as forming not the least important recommendation of our author's labours.

Even one hundred and fifty pages is an extravagant amount of letter-press, however, for the exposition of either the Election Law of a country, or any other of its laws. Why might not the whole doctrine of the subject be contained in a single Act of Parliament, of such brevity that every man in the kingdom might easily, if he chose, Under a rational system commit it to memory? of legislation, this would undoubtedly be the case; for the forms of procedure established by such a system, would be few and simple, inasmuch as they would be contrived only with a view to the protection of the few and simple interests of the parties really concerned in the business, and not in subserviency, either to the random and unreaIt is time, however, to turn our attention to the soning solicitations of accident, or, what is still work before us. The design of it is extremely worse, to the preposterous claims and suggestions laudable, it is that of combining the scientific of lawyers. Our own Legislature seems, inand the interesting parts of Zoology, so as to exdeed, to have at all times proceeded very much tend the popularity of the subject, and the know- upon the principle, that the law exists especially, ledge of its latest improvements and discoveries. if not exclusively, for the benefit of the lawyer. It consists of a translation of the Regne Ani-Yet, for this particular class in the community, mal' of Cuvier, and a very copious Supplement, the worst laws are evidently the best. Lawyers containing every thing of interest and importance would starve under a system of perfect law; just omitted in Cuvier's text, and drawn from the as physicians would do in a country in which best authorities. To the preceding parts on the there was little or no disease. Their prosperity, Mammalia, was added a synoptical list of all the as depending upon the law, is all made out of our species omitted in the Regne Animal.' In the sufferings under it; and the more it vexes and torments us, the more merrily, we may be sure, present parts on the Birds this plan is altered, and the omitted species are interspersed in the will they sing its praises. Had even our Election translation of the text, marked by a smaller type Law, for example, been less encumbered than it and an inner margin. is by all sorts of unmeaning and mischievous complication, Mr. Lister would have been without a subject for his present publication. Not, certainly, that we think he does not amply deserve all the credit and profit his book may bring him, -for it is really, as we have said, a compilation of much merit, but still it would undoubtedly be better, if the law could be made so short, and tions of it would be altogether uncalled for. The generally intelligible in itself, that such explanaoaths, and other useless forms and requirements, by which every chapter of it is overloaded, are calculated to yield a far richer harvest to practitioners, we are well aware, in another way than by the comparatively insignificant returns they can ever bring to the man who has happened to A Digest of the Law of Elections; containing the Promake them the subject of a successful publication. ceedings at Elections for all places in England, Ireland, and Scotland, with the Qualifications of Voters, Indeed, such popular expositions as the present &c. By Daniel Lister, Solicitor. Pp. 150. constitute the most formidable attack-next to London, 1828. the demolition of the system altogether-that can THIS is the most convenient Manual of the be made upon the monopoly of professional men; Election Law that has yet been given to the pub- and Mr. Lister, we think, deserves the thanks of lic; and, without a simplification of the law itself, the public for the disinterested part he has acted, we do not know, indeed, how the subject could in arming us, as it were, with his practical proe presented, in all its extent, either more lumi-tection against the dominion of himself and his nously, or within a narrower compass. The volume contains a very minute detail of the proceedings at elections in the different divisions of the United Kingdom, from the issuing to the return of the writ, in the course of which are given full copies of the orders, notices, oaths, &c., which have been enjoined by the Legislature, together with ample information as to every other point of practical importance. The special provisions that have been made for particular cases, are all, we observe, very accurately noted; so that there is no county or borough that will not find, in Mr. Lister's little work, a perfect guide or directory as to the formalities of the election ceremony. The laws with regard to the descrip

Our observations have extended so far as to leave us little space for extracts. We cannot conclude, however, without observing, that illustrations of this work continue to be executed, in the excellent style of the preceding Parts; and, consider the undertaking in all respects worthy of the patronage of the public.

LAW OF ELECTIONS.

8vo.

brethren.

The Hebrew, a Sketch in the Nineteenth Century; with the Dream of Saint Keynor. Blackwood. Edinburgh. 1828.

THIS is one of the best attempts at conveying religious instruction by means of fictitious narration, that we remember to have seen. The tale is itself extremely interesting, the moral it inculcates is unquestionably good, and many of the incidental descriptions and ticular, the account of a Jewish ball, and the narrasketches very admirable. We may mention, in par

tive of an English officer's preservation when wounded and left for dead, by a kind-hearted searcher among the corpses of a battle-field. It is altogether a very interesting little volume, and calculated to afford amusement and instruction at the same time,

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NAVAL EXPLOITS OF BRITAIN,
Geste Navali Britanniche, dal Grande Alfredo sino alla
Battaglia di Navarino, Poema di Stefano Egidio
Petronj. Edizione seconda. 2 Vols. 8vo. Treüttel,
Wurtz, and Co. London, 1828.

THE idea of celebrating the naval exploits of
Great Britain from the reign of Alfred to that of
his present Majesty, in a single poem, is, at all
events, sufficiently novel. Doubtless, too, a more
heroic and glorious theme could not have been
selected, had the author ransacked the annals of
nations, whether ancient or modern, from this to
Doomsday. It presents us with a continued series
of splendid triumphs, and calls for little more on
the part of poet, than strong powers of eulogy,
with a common share of historical knowledge and
enthusiasm for his art. These, at least, we are
ready to grant to the muse of Signor Petronj,
which, if boasting nothing of the epic fire of a
Homer or a Milton, always maintains her flight at
a tolerably respectable distance from mere medio-
crity and sing-song. Though not highly poetical, |
there is energy in his lines, and his management
of the versi sciolti, (the Italian blank verse,) is at
once varied and animated. His verse, indeed,
has not the polish and power of that of Monti,
Alfieri, Cesarotti, and Mauzoni, but it is equally
free from carelessness and extravagance. The
earnest and spirited tone of the language, like-
wise, supplies, in some degree, the absence of
highly-gifted powers; and this is further recom-
mended by the judicious method of selecting and
treating his subjects in a series of epic books or
cantos, illustrative of the most brilliant epochs of
our naval history. These are, moreover, accom-
panied with numerous notes, as creditable to the
author's knowledge of English history, as to his
industry and judgment. He is not content with
presenting us with a mere dry detail of facts; he
gives force and freshness to them, as well as to
his poetical text, by the political views and re-
flections with which they are interspersed. We
may observe, in particular, of the reigns of Elisa-
beth, Cromwell, and Charles II., the very able and
spirited style in which the poet characterises the
most remarkable features of our national enter-
prise and achievements, and the most splendid
passages in the lives of our great navigators and
heroes of the ocean. As a single specimen, we
shall give the speech of the Dutch Admiral Van
Tromp, after his defeat, addressed to the States :
'Thus well thou spok'st, consummate is the worth
And valour of unconquered Albion's sons.
Had not the speedy succour of our gallant
And noble comrades reached me, I had been
Or slain or taken. Thou, too, De Witt, exclaimd'st,
Hear me, ye sovereign people! while I state,
Boldly, the truth, as now in duty bound:
The English are too powerful, 'tis in vain
We would oppose the monarchs of the sea.'
Pp. 280.

PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. Advice to Solicitors on the Passing of Private Bills through Parliament. 8vo. London, 1826.

WE cannot better describe the nature of this publication than by a brief recital of its contents. It is especially intended to form a guide to solicitors in the passing of private bills through Parliament, and consists, in fact, chiefly of a methodical digest of the requirements in regard to this matter contained in the voluminous orders of the Lords and Commons, illustrated by frequent references to the practice of the two Houses, and by such occasional directions as to the most advisable mode of proceeding as the author's own experience enables him to lay before his readers. The work commences, accordingly, with a list of the bills requiring public notices, accompanied by a specification of the particular form of notice necessary for each, together with a very full summary of such explanatory observations as the subject seems to demand. The next two chapters treat of the map or plan which must be deposited with the respective Clerks of the Peace upon the introduction into Parliament of a bill for any intended undertaking, and of The Book of Reference,' containing the names of the owners and occupiers of the lands delineated in the plan. The whole of this information is afterwards very luminously disposed in a tabular form. Then follows a chapter on the

THE ATHENEUM.

·

'List of Owners and Occupiers,' whose interests are
to be affected by the undertaking, and whose assent
has, therefore, been applied for. The Estimate of
Expense,' the List of Subscribers,'. and the Form of
'Petition,' occupy the three next divisions of the Trea-
tise; the first part of which concludes with an enu-
which every Private Bill has to pass in its progress
meration, in regular order, of the stages through
through Parliament. Part Second consists simply of

an

exact reprint of the Standing Orders' and 'Tables of Fees' of the two Houses; without the insertion of which the author has, very properly, we think, judged that his work could not have been considered as complete.

It will

From this short statement, the object and utility of
the publication will be sufficiently evident.
not, as the author takes particular pains to show,
enable solicitors to dispense with the services of the
Parliamentary agent; but it cannot fail to form a most
important guide to them in regard to those preliminary
duties connected with the getting up of Private Bills,
which are considered as belonging more peculiarly to
their own department. The subject of which the
work treats is interesting, too, in no slight degree, to
the public in general; to whose attention, therefore,
we would beg to recommend the present exposition of
it, as the most convenient and luminous that has come
under our review. The author's public spirit was, we
understand, last session of Parliament, the means of
effecting the correction of many abuses and frauds
connected with the passing of private bills; and the
public are also indebted to him for certain improve-
ments in the Tables of es of both Houses, which
have been recently adopted. The book, we think it
also right to mention, although first published towards
the close of the year 1826, has been prevented from
being sold till within these few weeks, by an injunction
from the Court of Chancery, the operation of which,
in the present case, has been attended with peculiar
some compensation in the liberal patronage of the
hardship to the author. We trust he will now find
public, and especially of his own profession, for the
consequences of this vexatious interference.

IRELAND'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON.

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By W. H. Ireland,
Esq. 4 vols. 8vo. Cumberland. Loudon, 1828.

AMID the immense number of memoirs to which
the career of the singular man whose life they record,
has given birth, it is generally acknowledged, we be-
lieve, that none have appeared which do justice to the
at this than we think reasonable. It was not to be
interesting subject. More surprise has been expressed
other celebrated men in meeting with biographers un-
supposed, that Buonaparte would be more happy than
influenced by any of the ordinary prejudices of writers;
or that, in the study of his character and times, we
should possess more facilities for judging rightly
than in the examination of any other historical
We would ask of those who
character or period.

so bitterly lament the inadequacy of any of the
numerous works which have appeared on the sub-
ject to effect its proper purpose, what period in
ancient or modern history, or the actions of which
men belonging to it, can be rightly understood through
the testimony of one author? It is with regard to
Napoleon's character and actions, as it has been with
every other conspicuous actor on the stage of life; his
merits and defects are only to be learnt by a careful
examination of many and opposing observers.

The work of Mr. Ireland recommends itself, not for
any high political character, but for containing a vast
quantity of anecdote, and an amusing recapitulation of
whatever is known respecting Napoleon's battles and
general career. It is illustrated with several coloured
prints, and is well calculated for a work of popular
reading.

Flora Medica. Numbers 1 to 6. Callon and Wilson
London. 1828.

MEDICAL Botany is a study of such importance that
it is surprising so few, and those almost entirely un-
scientific works, should be known among us. The
present publication is well calculated to supply the want
which both professional students and general readers
must have felt in this department of science. The
letter-press descriptions, as well as the introductory
matter, afford a clear and succinct account both of the
botanical character of the several planets, and their
medical properties. The illustrative prints, also, are well
executed, and are admirable specimens of lithography.
We cordially recommend the work to the attention of
our readers, as it is especially calculated to render the im-
portant uses of botanical studies more clearly understood.

CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL.

The Death of Ananias, drawn on Stone by G. Foggo, from the original Cartoon of Raphael, at Hampton Court; and dedicated with permission to Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy. Engelmann and Co. London, 1828.

Or the original Cartoons of Raphael it is unneces sary to say a word. They are among the most perfect of the specimens of ancient art, which time has spared; and are of themselves a sufficient attraction to draw crowds of strangers annually to the palace at Hampton Court to see them. Any representations of these magnificent designs, which, by being moderate in price, cam be generally possessed, deserves therefore especial' encouragement; and such is the lithographic impression before us. It is the first of a series, intended to include the whole of the Cartoons, to be published at only ten shillings each, though the size of the drawing is about 22 inches by 14. At present, no good collection of prints from the originals can be procured at any moderate price. Holloway's, which are the most finished, (and are certainly splendid specimens of line engraving,) sold as high as ten guineas each; and although to persons of fortune these were better adapted than prints of inferior labour and inferior value, and were quite worthy of the highest patronage, inasmuch as the originals deserved the highest class of art to be applied to their transcripts,-yet, as there must be a very large number of persons possessing sufficient taste to value highly the masterly drawings of the Cartoons, to whom this class, at least, these lithographs of Foggo's, which Holloway's engravings of them were unattainable,—to are extremely faithful in the general character and effect, cannot fail to be highly acceptable.

VIEWS OF GIBRALTAR.

Six Views of Gibraltar, drawn on Stone, by J. M. Buynes, from the Originals, by H. A. West, Esq., of the 12th Infantry. R. Ackermann, Strand. London, 1828.

WE can speak personally as to the extreme accuracy of these Views. Gibraltar, indeed, is so remarkable a place, that whoever has visited it once, must retain vivid recollections of its peculiar features; and those who have visited it frequently, can have no difficulty in recalling every point and aspect of its singular scenery to mind. The first View is from the ruins of Fort St. Philip on the Spanish territory, looking southeastward, giving a fine view of the perpendicular northern face of the cliff in which the Devil's Battery is placed, and which, overhanging the small sandy isthmus, called the Neutral Ground, which separates the almost insular rock from the main-land of Spain, resembles the Shakspeare Cliff at Dover, overhanging the British Channel at its feet. The second View looking north from the South Bastion, though faithful, is of less interest than the preceding, as being more limited in its extent. The third View, which shows the elevated and cloud-capt peak of Europa, on the summit of which the highest telegraph is placed, with the Governor's cottage on the winding road of ascent; the sea at the base of the rocky cliffs; the Straits of entrance to the Meditteranean Sea beyond, and the African mountains in the distance-forms a very striking picture. The fourth View, looking south from the New Mole, exhibits in a very picturesque manner the manner in which the fortifications are carried along the margin of the sea. The defect of this print is, that the sky is too heavy, and the coast of Africa hardly sufficiently in distance; the battery walls, and the beach The fifth View, which is taken from the North Bastion, beneath, are, however, exceedingly well pourtrayed. is faithful, and gives a good idea of the mingled effect towers, and ordinary buildings, all of which are here of modern fortifications, rocky eminences, Moorish united. The sixth View, looking from the New Mole Fort northwards, embraces a sight of the Spanish very interesting panorama of one of the most remarkhills, with ships and beats at anchor, and completes a able places among all our foreign possessions.

EIGHT DAYS AT BRIGHTON-BY A FOREIGNER
OF DISTINCTION.

No. V.

'Tout ce que vient du cœur n'est pas de la flatterie : les flatteurs n'en ont pas . . . . .'

I LEFT Lord S-l's early, intending to spend the remainder of the evening at Lady Mary Sd's, where I was invited. But, in spite of all my hurry, it was so late when I got to her ladyship's residence, that almost all the company had departed before my arrival. This little accident, however, procured me the pleasure of passing a few hours in the society of Lady Mary and a few of her intimate friends. When I entered the drawing-room, the party were engaged in one of those philosophic discussions in which her ladyship takes so much delight. I felt myself incompetent to share in this profound conversation; and, as it is said that silence implies a certain kind of talent, I contented myself with remaining a listener. I thus enjoyed no small share of interest and pleasure, whenever Lady Mary spoke. I shall not presume to add my humble tribute to the admiration which her high talents so universally call forth; but I may observe that her ladyship has profoundly investigated many important philosophical questions, that she seeks and surmounts difficulties instead of evading them, and that the most enlightened critics are unanimous in the encomiums which her productions have elicited. The company were occasionally diverted from the grave discussions in which they were engaged by the syren voice of Miss -, her ladyship's daughter, whose graceful fingers, lightly running over the keys of the piano, proved that she was equally accomplished as a player and a singer.

Lady Mary presented me with her work, entitled, The Perception of an External Universe.'- Madam,' said I, I candidly confess that I shall be unable to understand it, without your kind assistance in the way of explanation. Such has been the unsettled course of my life, that I have hitherto had little opportunity for studies of this kind. But I am a docile scholar; and the lessons of an instructress, who possesses, as you do, the art of winning attention and exciting interest, can never be unattended with success. Upon this her ladyship had the goodness to translate to me some passages of her work, among others, that which treats of the faith due to miracles. To this last chapter might justly be added the miracle of a lady, devoting herself, in the flower of her age, to the task of collecting and deducing evidences of those important truths, which are not unfrequently the subject of sceptical controversy.

attentive in superintending the details. The effi-
cacy of these baths is almost instantaneously felt.
On quitting the bath, after resting for a few
moments, I repaired to the terrace of the jetty,
to enjoy the bracing sea-air, and also in the hope
of meeting with some of the sages of this modern
portico. I was not disappointed. Lord and Lady
H-d were there; his lordship mounted on
his poney, and her ladyship seated in a little chaise,
just high enough to enable her to converse with
her friends in the ride; for here they were sure
to meet almost every body they knew in Brighton.
The members of this little out-door club were all
on a footing of perfect intimacy. Lord H- -d,
who is at all times distinguished for his pleasing
manners, appeared on these occasions more than
usually remarkable for easy, unaffected frankness.
These conversations, which, in spite of difference
of opinion, were constantly maintained with good-
humour, might, had they been recorded, have
served alike for a code of bon ton and a school of
politics.

Lord Hd and his friends were, when I
joined them, talking about the affairs of Greece,
and the influence which the support of the Greek
cause would probably have on the political equi-
librium of Europe. The name of Colonel Fabvier
was mentioned, and I was asked whether I knew
him. I frequently met him in Paris,' I replied,
before he went to Lyons as Chief of the Duke of
Ragusa's Staff. I lost sight of him when he was
assailed by those unjust and unwise persecutions
which forced him into a line of opposition totally

at variance with his natural character. After a
long series of calamity, he was driven to the
greatest of all misfortunes, that of bearing arms
against his country. The issue of the contest in
Spain involved him in all that misery which falls
to the lot of political victims, and in this forlorn
condition I found him on my first visit to London.
He was then engaged in chemical experiments
adapted to the arts, and he told me that he had
some idea of going to Persia, where he had left a
brilliant reputation, when he was attached to one
of the French embassies in that country. His ab-
sence from France seemed to prey upon his
spirits, and his anticipations of the future were
cheerless and discouraging. But the noble mind
is exalted by misfortune, as the atmosphere is
purified by storms. It was with no less surprise
than satisfaction, that the newspapers shortly
afterwards informed me of his arrival in Greece';
and the noble cause he has embraced, will, I
trust, like a new baptism, purify him in the eyes
of those who, judging of things only by their
results, have, perhaps, condemned him undeser-
vedly.'

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Two young ladies, attended by their governess, now appproached lady H-d. Their cheeks Before I left Paris, I had heard that an Indian, were suffused with that delicate but healthful named Mohammed, had established some vapour- tint which succeeds the more decided bloom baths at Brighton, which were much extolled of childhood, and the modest grace of their for their salubrity. The season was now too far deportment rendered them exceedingly interestadvanced for sea-bathing, though many persons ing. Those,' said Sir Robert, are the daughstill persevered in braving the salt waves every ters of Lord G -le, our ambassador at morning. I wished to make trial of the Indian's Paris; the young ladies are here for their baths, and to ascertain whether they deserved to health.' The weather was most inviting, and be compared with those of Constantinople. I the elegant promenade was thronged with caraccordingly visited them at an early hour in the riages and fashionable pedestrains. There,' said morning. I was enveloped in a cloud of vapour, Sir Robert, is Princess Esterhazy.' Her apconfined in a flannel tent, and my limbs under-pearance sufficiently denoted her exalted rank; went a sort of friction or pressure, called sham- and, in her elegant figure and sweet expressive pooning, which produced an unusual sensation of countenance, I could trace a striking resemblance vigour and power of activity. But the baths of to her aunt, the late Queen of Prussia. This Constantinople have an advantage over these. place,' said I to Sir Robert, is a sort of uniThey are taken in a spacious marble chamber, in versal panorama. I could now almost imagine which the vapour is equal throughout; and when myself transported to the banks of the Neva; the temperature is raised to the highest degree, for yonder I perceive a Russian nobleman; his it is suddenly reduced by a shower-bath of cold fine countenance, portly figure, and, above all, water, which is one of the most powerful tonics his richly furred pelisse, remind me of one of the imaginable. These new vapour-baths at Brighton boyards of Moscow.' That,' replied Sir Roare fitted up in that style of elegance which dis- bert, is no other than the Duke of Devonshire; tinguishes all similar establishments in England. however, your mistake is natural enough. For The proprietor Mohammed, who has made the his coat has, I dare say, been brought from Rusart of bathing his peculiar study, is exceedingly sia, where he has lately been the representative

of our Sovereign, at the coronation of the new Czar.'

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'Who is that lady,' I inquired, surrounded by her lovely young family? That,' replied Sir Robert, is Lady Ux- ge, whose father-in-law has just been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, or, as you would denominate it in France, the Viceroy. Her beauty would, indeed, add lustre to a throne. You will, perhaps, see her this evening at the ball; for, I suppose, you have not neglected to apply for your ticket. Contrary to our English custom, the ball will commence early, but nevertheless, I dare say, it will be kept up till day-light to-morrow morning. I intend taking my daughter, and if you will favour her with your company to a family-dinner, we will all go together. I gladly accepted the invitation. Besides Sir Robert's family and myself, the dinner party consisted of Mr. Br-el, his two daughters, and a very agreeable young gentleman, named L, a brother of Lord D-, who seemed to be a particular favourite of Sir Robert. I was struck with the singular resemblance of one of Mr. Brel's daughters to the Countess Rosalie Rezewonska, with whom I was intimately acquainted at Vienna. I remarked the circumstance to Sir Robert, who had also known the Countess at Warsaw, and he concurred with me in thinking the likeness very remarkable. May I inquire,' said Mr. Brel, who is the lady whom my daughter so much resembles ? From her name, I should guess she is a Russian.' No Sir,' I replied, she is a native of Poland, and one of the most distinguished individuals in that country, as well on account of her high rank, as her many estimable qualifications. She is celebrated by an anecdote of which she was the heroine, and which borders closely on romance.' This was enough to rouse the curiosity of the ladies. Miss Brel begged to be made acquainted with the adventure of her female socio, and, in compliance with her wishes, I related the following story.

At the epoch, when terror covered France with scaffolds and tears, a young lady, equally illustrious by birth and celebrated for beauty, the Princess Fanny Lubomerska, was in Paris. In the midst of the convulsion, she relied for her security on the protection of the law of nations, and devoted her whole attention to the education of her only daughter Rosalia, who was then in her sixth year. Nevertheless, she was denounced to the Revolutionary Committee as a conspirator against the Republic, and was brought before that sanguinary tribunal. To be suspected, accused, and guillotined, was, in a few days, the lot of this interesting victim. On being arrested and sepa❤ rated from all her servants, she was allowed to bring her daughter with her to the Conciergerie, and when the unfortunate mother was dragged to the scaffold, she recommended her child to the care of some of the prisoners who remained behind. These, however, in their turn, soon experiencing the same fate, transferred to others the unfortunate infant who was in this way bequeathed, in articulo mortis, from victim to victim. At last, little Rosalia found a protectress in a good woman, named Bertot, who was the laundress of the prison, who, feeling for the forlorn condition, and charmed by the interesting countenance of this orphan of the dungeons, added her as a sixth to the five children of whom she was already the mother. In this situation, so different from that for which fate seemed to have destined her, Rosalia showed that the qualities of her heart were as valuable, as the graces with which nature had endowed her person were attractive. Her sweet disposition, her eagerness to please her bene

* It is always gratifying to see individuals whose names are associated with historical recollections. But, besides the distinction which an illustrious name confers, the Duke of Devonshire possesses that of being a liberal patron of the arts. The elegant verses translated by our poet Delille, refer, I presume, to the Duke's accomplished mother.

'Fortuna magna magno domino est servitus.' The reign of terror having passed away, the list observed, You have related a story, Sir, which,Translate it, if you please, Sir,' It means, its slave.' Madam, that great fortune makes the possessor