Dr. John Reid's Treatise on Con- resided as a private person, to occupy sumption has lately been translated a chair of philosophy in the Univerinto German by Dr. Helmerhausen, sity of Koningsberg.

of Neustadt, in the dutchy of Saxe Cobourg.

The catalogue of books at the last Leipsic Fair, amounted to only 1562 articles, including the Latin works. Among others were the works of the musical physician, who prescribes marches and allegros instead of pow ders and pills; prestos instead of purgatives; he cures the fever by the gentle movements of the Andante, and $othes the agonies of pain by the delights of an adagio. There were many continuations, or new editions of of former works: Voyages, Travels, Biography, &c. The class of publications least diminished, are novels and theatricals. There were 88 of the former, and 38 of the latter. Francfort sent but one bookseller to this fair, though this city had been in the habit of sending ten before the pre

sent year.

A specimen of printing, supposed to be earlier than any other of the kind, has lately been discovered in the Roval Library of Munich. It is an Exhortation to all the Christian States to join in a campaign against the Turls. It is written in German verses, and seems to have been done in 1454, consisting of nine quarto pages, printed with moveable types of wood.

Mr. John Moelzl has been at Paris, to submit to the judges of music, a piece of mechanism, which he calls Panharmonicon. This machine, moved entirely by springs, gives the sound of all wind instruments with a purity and perfection never before attained

by art.

It combines the German flute, small flute, clarionet, hautboes, bassoon, horn, trombone, serpent, and trumpet. It performs pieces of music with great precision, marking perfectly all the shades of piano and forte; but the execution of the trumpet is peculiarly striking.

Professor Kirchner, of Francfort, has published the first part of his work, entitled the History of Francfort; in consequence of which, the Prince Primate has written him a very obliging letter, and presented him with a gold coin.

The treasures of art belonging to the Gallery and Museum at Cassel,' have all been transported to Paris. Even the Statue of Hercules has been removed; but a continental journalist puts the question, what the inhabitants of Hesse Cassel should want with the image of Hercules after having lost its strength.

The beautiful gallery at Saltzbal, in Brunswick, has likewise become the prey of the conqueror, and consequently removed. Few galleries in Germany possessed so many of the Flemish masters' most excellent productions as this; it had also been considerably increased within the last few years.

Mr. Wilberforce's View of Christianity has been translated into the German language at Francfort.

A German Journal asserts that beavers exist in the banks of the Lippe, in Westphalia, in spite of the efforts of the inhabitants to destroy them. The existence of the beavers is said to appear evident from the great number of trees which have fallen on the river sides. But it is difficult to determine whether these animals live solitary, or in societies and pairs.

Holland.

The uniform of the Dutch army has been white ever since the commencement of the present year.

The Journal called Le Vrai Hol. landais-The True Hollander-being printed at the Hague, in the French language, and the object of which

seemed to be the reconciliation of the Mr. Singer, a German at Rome, has Batavian people with the new meaobtained from the pontifical govern- sures, has stopped for want of a sale. ment, the exclusive privilege for car- In fact, printed in a large fetter, and bonizing turf or peat from the pontine upon a small sized paper, it was not a marshes; it is afterwards to be used marketable commodity with a Dutchas fuel at Ronie, which is an article very scarce and dear at present. Professor Fichte, the celebrated metaphysician, has left Berlin, where he

man, as his country journals are ge nerally crowded with short transverse columns even in their margins! The Koninglike Courant, viz, the Royal

Italy.

Courant, a new daily paper, printed rena, that the oldest person does not in the Dutch language at the Hague, remember so hot a summer as the preems to be the favourite, and it fre- sent. In the middle and lower Italy quently has a column or more devoted the heat has been so excessive, as to to the arts and sciences, or foreign, produce apoplexies and brain fevers. particularly English literature. At Rome about the time the heat rose The brewers of Groningen having to 29 degrees of Reaumer, 60 persons lately thought proper to raise the were sent to the lunatic hospital. price of their beer, and the burgoRussia. masters and council having called On the 13th of March last in the upon them without effect to shew afternoon, the inhabitants of the cancause for so doing, within a limited ton of Jucknow, in the government of time, the magistrates gave the inhabi- Smolesk, were alarmed by a clap of tants to understand, that they were thunder unusually loud. At the same not under any necessity to pay more moment, two peasants being out in for their beer than the price settled the fields, saw at the distance of forty jn 1794. • paces, a black stone falling to the earth, which it penetrated to a conThe Museum Borgianum at Rome, siderable depth beneath the snow. is at present the most considerable Being dug up, it was found to be of remaining in that city. It takes its an oblong square figure, something name from the uncle of the late Car- like cast iron, very smooth through dinal Borgia, who died at Lyons in out, weighing about 160 pounds, 1804, and with a great number of cu- and one side resembling a coffin, rious articles, contains a manuscript This meteor-stone was first sent to of the second century, on a roll of Count Kotschubei, the minister of the Egyptian papyrus. This is described interior, and by him transmitted to by Schon: an inscription in the the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Volscian language, the only one re- at Petersburg, maining; twelve Etruscan vases an- The Petersburg Gazette gives an ciently used in sacrifices, engravings account from a report made by the of which have been published under governor of Irkutsk of the discovery the Cardinal's direction, more than of a mass of ruins of 35 wersts from 5000 Greek and 1000 Cusic coins: the the frontiers of China, which appear most remarkable of them are described to have belonged to a very consideraby Adler; an Arabic globe, described ble city. They consist of shapeless by Asseman; several Arabic and hillocks, heaps of decayed bricks, and Syriac manuscripts. While Cardinal the remains of ramparts mostly overBorgia was secretary to the Propa- grown with large trees. The govern ganda he increased the number of ment have ordered an accurate infounts of types of foreign languages, spection to be made of them. in its printing office, at his own expence. He also procured a fount of Etruscan types, and encouraged Raphael Turki, the Egyptian bishop, to print his Coptic grammar, besides promoting the graminar of the Kurds language, written by Garzoni.

The number of inhabitants at Rome is strikingly diminished; it contains at present only 134,973 persons, of every age and condition. In 1788, the year before the commencement of the French revolution, they exceeded 165,000, and even seemed to increase in 1794. In 1798 however, a very sensible decrease was evident: the whole number of the inhabitants did not exceed 151,000 persons.

A correspondent writes from Ve

Spain.

A committee established by the King of Spain in December last, is in full activity. Its object is to excite emulation among the literary writers for the stage, for the composition of new pieces, and the reform of the old. The following regulations have been published, having received his majesty's assent. Every tragedy or comedy during the life of the author, shall produce him 8 per cent. out of the produce of their representation, Dramas and comedies in like manner, 5 per cent. Translated pieces, 3 per cent. during ten years. Operas, oratorios, &c. S per cent. viz. 5 per cent. to the musician, and 2 to the poet. Every translator shall give a copy of the ori

ginal with bis version. The pieces position that formerly they were carof every kind are to be addressed to ried to the Foundling Hospital at the committee of direction at Madrid. Milan, and so continued unknown. They must also be warranted by the Turkey. approbation of the vicar-general of A man about 106 years of age was Madrid, and submitted to a censor, lately living at Constantinople who empowered to admit or reject them was known all over that city by the according to their merit. Lastly, the name of Solyman, the eater of corro printing and publishing of theatrical sive sublimate. In the early part of pieces belong exclusively to authors, his life, he accustomed himself like who are at liberty to follow their incli- other Turks to the use of opium, but nations in this particular. not feeling the desired effect, he aug Switzerland. mented his dose to a great quantity, Several regulations for morals have without feeling any inconvenience, lately been adopted here, viz. single and at length took a drachm or sixty persons are enjoined to attend the pub- grains daily. He went into the shop of lic repetition of the catechism till the a jew apothecary, to whom he was unage of 22 years: a person is fined five known, asked for a dram of sublimate, livres for drunkenness, and the keeper which he mixed in a glass of water, of the public-house where it may hap- and drank it instantly. The apothe pen must pay eight livres: after even- cary was dreadfully alarmed, because ing worship on a Sunday no child un- he knew the consequences of being der 13 years of age must be seen in accused of poisoning a Turk: but what the streets: a fine of 150 livres is im- was his astonishment when he saw the posed upon any person convicted of same man return the next day for an playing at any game of chance; danc- equal dose of the same quantity. It is ing, balls, &c. are however permitted said that Lord Elgin, Mr. Smith, and on certain days, under the direction other Englishmen, knew this man, of the Lesser Council. The number and have heard him declare that his of illegitimate children in Switzerland enjoyment after having taken this is admitted to be considerably greater active poison, is the greatest he ever since, than before the revolution; felt from any cause whatever. but this is accounted for by the sup

ADDITIONS TO, AND CORRECTIONS IN, FORMER

CHARL

OBITUARIES.

NHARLES M'CORMICK, LL.B. of strewing the thorny paths of gram(whose death was announced p.175), mar with roses; under the plastic hand was a man of active benevolence and of such a teacher, young M'Cormick, real learning. He was a native of Ire- in the course of a few years, could land, descended of a race that is often relish the beauties of the Greek and mentioned with the highest respect in Roman writers, for which he was very the annals of that country. His father much indebted to nature, which had was a man of good natural understand- gifted him with an excellent memory, ing, and that understanding was highly refined taste, and a judgment that outimproved by education, which enabled stript his years. His time was not enhim to train up his son in the way that tively employed in exploring the rich he should go, and to enforce his pater- mines of Roman and Grecian literanal precepts by his own example. ture. He read the best authors in his The subject of this sketch evinced, at native tongue, particularly those that a very early age, a love for letters that treated of the British Constitution, increased with his years, of which he and the manly struggles of our ances has left many proofs in more languages tors for the maintenance of that form than one. The discouragements of Government, which may be justly which almost every boy experiences called the envy and admiration of the on his entrance on the learned lan- surrounding world. Lie examined this guages, were in a great measure re- venerable edifice in all its parts, and moved by the indulgent aid of his could reason on the utility of each in schoolmaster, who had the happy art words that might be truly said to have

been cast in the mint of reason. Hav- was writing it. It must have been a ing finished his classical studies, he great source of consolation to Mr. came to London with a view of adding M'Cormick in his ickness, and in his to the knowledge he had aiready ac- last moments, to reflect, that he never quired. Having remained some time wrote a line which he would wish to in the metropolis, he visited Paris, in blot out: all his writings were calcu ouder to perfect himself in the French lated to promote the cause of rational language; and to form, if possible, a liberty, religion, and virtue. He never correct opinion of the genius and po- lulled any great man in the down of licy of a people whose restless ambi- Dedication, or burned the sacred intion had involved this country in so cense of truth on the shrine of adulamany bloody and expensive wars. "I tion. His style was vigorous and flowloved the Constitution of England," ing-great integrity of metaphor, and said he," before I went to France; classical purity of language; force, but, on my return, my love kindled and clearness of expression, were the into enthusiasm:" an enthusiasm that principal objects at which he aimed: continued to glow in his breast to the he was superior to the little arts last moment of his life. He entered of weighing accents, and measuring his name on the books of the Middle words, for the mere purpose of winTemple, and in due time answered all ning the ear at the expense of the his terms. He passed much of his time judgment. In his younger days, he in Oxford in conversation with men had projected a History of Ireland, in of congenial literary pursuits, or in which he intended to examine with perusing some of the most valuable the most scrupulous impartiality the authors in that inestimable treasury pretensions of the Historians of that of "Medicine for the mind," the Bod- country, to a very high antiquity inleian Library. It is not exactly known deed, which Camden, the father of when he commenced author: some of British topography, subscribes to. But his lighter productions found their as that was a work of immense labour, way into newspapers, and periodical in which he would have to contend in publications; but as these were writ- almost every line with prejudices, pasten merely to relax the severity of his sions, and national pride, he deter studies, he neither derived fame nor mined to reserve the execution of it profit from them. Many of his pro- till his judgment had attained its full ductions, to which he did not put his ascendancy. He was active however name, would have produced both, if in collecting materials for it-such as he had been avaricious of either one the remains of pagan monuments, maor the other. And it is to be lamented nuscripts that lurked in libraries, and that those writings in which his name all that floated on the breath of tradiappears were not, in the language of tion. In this elaborate undertaking Dr. Johnson, composed under the he intended to have steered a middle shade of Academic bowers," but under course, between General Vallancy, the pressure of circumstances known Dr. Campbell, and Mr. Ledwich, and only to a few of his most intimate to have written it under the patronage friends; for he was a man of that inde- of the Earl of Moira, a nobleman pendence of mind that would make no warmly interested in whatever relates terms with misfortune, or yield to any to the prosperity and glory of that stroke of adversity. Those works to country. The great and laudable end which he has prefixed his name are, which he had in view, in the execution The Secret History of King Charles of this arduous undertaking, was, to the Second-Reign of George the induce the natives to sacritice their Third, down to 1783.-Continuation political and religious prejudices on of Rapin's History of England-Bri- the altar of Public Affection. But tish Cicero-Light reading for Lei- what are the hopes of man! as he was sure Hours-Life of the Right Ho- preparing to arrange the materials for In the his History of Ireland, he was attacked nourable Edmund Burke. composition of this last, it may be with dropsy. In the daily accumula truly said that be ran a race with time: tion of that disease, he preserved the for the Printer's boy was scarcely a mo- greatest equanimity, and even cheerment absent from his elbow while he fulness, affected only by the conside

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ration of leaving a truly affectionate MR. JOHN WALKER, (whose death wife behind him in distress. His was announced p. 175).—This very resickness lasted soine weeks

Till pitying Nature signed the last release,
And bade afflicted worth retire to peace.

It is with regret we add, that he has
left a widow, now in years, under the
pressure of very distressing circum-

stances.

spectable man, who has long been distinguished in the literary world, was in the 76th year of his age. In the earlier part of his life Mr. Walker adopted the theatrical profession, and acquired considerable reputation in Ireland, and many provincial stages in this country, and was for some years Mr. QUINTIN KAY, (whose death an established actor on the London was announced p. 175), was a native of boards. He was chiefly successful in. Doncaster, where he served his ap- parts of sententious morality and blunt prenticeship. When he first came to humour, and was conspicuous for his town, he worked for twelve shillings a merit in the performance of Down week; but, at length, saved money right in the comedy of Every Man in enough to enable him to begin busi- his Humour. Contrary, however, to ness in a small way. He afterwards the habits of most theatrical performbecame a partner with Mr. Say, whom ers, he had no favourable opinion of he outlived. It is said, that to many his own powers, but spoke of himself of his numerous workmen he con- as having been an indifferent actor. stantly paid more weekly wages than Having always a strong propensity to they expected; to others, he gave philological studies, he quitted the comfortable houses rent free, for a stage and published several valuable Rumber of years, but to a fine little works on Grammar and Elocution, of boy his grand nephew, who about six which he was many years a distinmonths since returned destitute from guished teacher. His great work is sea, he gave only half a crown. He the Pronouncing Dictionary in the used to say, he never wished to see his English Language, a production of poor relations. He was never married, prodigious labour, and of such high nor in love with any thing but money, merit that it will for ever be a standard nor was ever known to be within side book in this country. This work is of a church or a playhouse. On the characterised by extensive knowledge, contrary, he spent Sunday in his work- unwearied diligence, correct taste, shops, in a dirty shirt, with two or profound and accurate discrimination. three of his workmen, picking up All his other works partake of those pieces of rags, veneer, &c. The bulk properties to the full extent which of his fortune, amounting to upwards they severally required. Mr. Walker of 100,000l. he left among his relatives, lost his wife a few years ago, and the one of them a poor carpet weaver at shock was severe, as she was an excelLeeds, with a large family. Mr. Lad- lent woman, with an admirable underbroke, the banker, is also one of his standing and great humour. She also legatees; and he has left something was on the Stage, and was a good acto some charities. To his clerk, a poor tress. Mr. Walker was distinguished old man, his faithful drudge and com- in private life for a strict regard to mo panion many years, he left 150. He ral and religious duties, and it may be had been ill about a month previous to truly said, that society, so far as his his death; and, apprehending his decease, he sent for an undertaker, (not the one he usually employed) and bargaining with him for his funeral, he died as he had lived, an honest man, but without any concern for religion.

sphere of action extended, could hardly have lost a more useful and respectable member. He was intimately known to most of the distinguished literary characters of his time, by whom he was held in high esteem for his ta lents, his knowledge, and his virtues.

ENTERTAINMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS.

August 26.—

LYCEUM, Strand, Acedon gave

his first musical treat, called A Voyage to India.

journey, comes hat in of sentimental

This piece is kind

manner of Sterne's; but more happily adapted to what at the present crisis