turesque subjects and antiquities. sian Journals, alludes to a very grand Most of them are stroke engravings, undertaking now in agitation, under some are in aquatinta, in which the the auspices of the French Emperor. Germans excel; others representing This is nothing less than to effect a Mexican or Arabesque costumes, are closer union between the different coloured. The view of Chimborasso sects of the Christian religion, agreeawill be worked in colours, and form bly to the doctrines taught by their one of the most magnificent prints of great founder, and such as is requisite the kind. With other subjects of the for our enlightened age. A great replates, there is the statue of a priestess; formation is intended in particular in a collossal idol of Mexico; the crater the Jewish worship; and as the rights of the Peak of Teneriffe; a frustra of of citizens have been secured to that the Pyramid of Paplanta; the Volcano sect, it will be provided by wi e laws, of Cayambe; the Garden of the In- to facilitate their renunciation of the cas; the Vallies of Quindiu; the Air old forms which separate them from Volcanos of Turba; the Palace at At- their fellow citizens. litla; the Pyramid of Chilula; Image of the Sun in the rocks of the Incas; The Josephine Academy of Sur the Casade of Tequendama; the snow- gery, at Vienna, have been investicovered Mountains of Chimborasso-gating the conductor of light invented Popocatepec and Cotopaxi; Vinegar by Dr. Bozzini, of Francfort on the River; the Swimming-Post; an En- Mayne, which is intended to illumine campment on the Oronoko, with the the internal parts and cavities of the method of roasting a monkey; a Ca- body. The experiments made on taract; Architecture and Interior of corpses are said to have demonstrated the House of Cannar, &c. All these the utility of this ingenious contriengravings will be finished in the vance; notwithstanding the applica course of the year, so that the first vo- tion of this conductor to living per lume of the Historical Narrative will sons, it is admitted, will be attended be ready for publication at the begin with very great difficulties. ning of 1808, and the others in the course of that year.

A Poem has been lately published in Paris, intituled Virgil in France, or the New Eneid; an heroic comic Poem, in the Franco-Gothic style; in which the Eneid of Virgil is traverstied into a history of the French Revolution; by M. Leplat du Temple. In this work Eolus is the King-of England; the Trojans the French: Priam, Louis XVI.; the Harpies, the Monks of Belgium, &c.

M. Peyron is about publishing his Account of the Discoveries made in the South Seas in the corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, in the years 1800 to 1804. This work will make two vols. quarto, and will contain 41 charts. It was compiled by order of the French Emperor.

One of the Naturalists belonging to the expedition under Captain Baudin, after being detained at Batavia by illness, has arrived at Nantes,.with a superb collection of Natural History, and a number of arms and instruments, from Otaheite, Java, and the adjacent islands.

A demi-official article, in the Pari

Germany.

M. Muller, painter to the King of Bavaria, has lately published a panphlet, censuring Kotzebue's judgment on the productions of the fine arts, in his travels from Livonia to Naples and Rome. This refutation embraces many general ideas on the arts, deve loped in a very ingenious manner,

Eighty or a hundred enormous cases of curiosities, from Berlin and Potzdam, have arrived at Fort St. Nicho las. No fewer than 150 packages, of the same kind, had before been transmitted to the Napoleon Museum. In these were inclosed the splendid collection of pictures from the gallery of Hesse Cassel, and a great s ariety of valuable articles from Brunswick and Wolfenbuttel. Among the more important contributions, are the MSS. from the library of the latter, which have been deposited, under the immediate inspection of M. Denon, in the National Library.

There has been lately sold at Carlsruhe, a picture of the Virgin, by Albert Durer, once in the possession of the last Catholic Margrave of Baden. It is in an astonishing state of preservation. Although of the age of three

centuries, it appears as if fresh from the hands of the painter. The Madona is in the old German habit. Nothing can be conceived so pure, so pious, so virginal, and yet so maternal, as her visage. The infant, which she holds in her arms, is of inimitable beauty; he has three cherries in his left hand, and a butterfly in his right. The hand, and the left arm of the Virgin, are of the most exquisite perfection. Artists hesitate whether they should not consider this picture as the chef d'œuvre of Albert Durer; and some dare to compare, nay even to prefer, the head of the Madona to that by Raphael, called Della Sediola,

Indies (East).

The East India Company have presented Mr. King with 1,500 pagodas, for the translation of a work on Mahomedan Jurisprudence.

Portugal.

The University of Coimbra has received a legacy of the library of M.` Hasse, who lately died at Lisbon. It contains nearly 12000 volumes of scarce books and manuscripts. Besides some Latin and Spanish works of the 15th century, it contains almost every thing in print and manuscript, upon the Portuguese Legislation, and a uumber of scarce articles in Spanish and Portuguese literature.

Russia.

Mr. Ker Porter, the celebrated artist and painter of the Sge of Seringapatam, is to be married immediately to a Russian Princess, who has a fortune of 8000l. per annum, having obtained the consent of the Emperor to her nuptials, which is a 'necessary etiquette in that country.

It is not true, as some of the Foreign A monthly publication has com- Journals have stated, that M. Klamenced at Madras, called the Indian proth, the orientalist, had set out for Magazine and European Miscellany, Pekin, with the Greek Missionaries; combining literary, and other intelli- but as he was proceeding with M. gence, from Europe, besides original Helm, a botanist, for Kiachta, to exinformation on subjects connected plore the frontiers of Chinese and with the British possessions in india. Russian Tartary, we learn that since The first number, published in Febru- his arrival at that place he has com ary last, is embellished with a,view of posed a Chinese and Japonese DicMadras from the beach. tionary.

Italy.

The Cardinal Archbishop of Genoa has suppressed several religious festivals in his jurisdiction; the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul; all the patron Saints of parishes; those of St. John Baptist, St. Laurence, the Conception, and St. Bernard, are transferred to Sundays. Such festivals as fall on Sundays are for the present retained, with the Epiphany, All Saints, &c.

Basilius, a learned Greek physician, at Constantinople, under Russian patronage, has published a collection of letters, in order to form a pure modern Greek Epistolary stile, in which he has introduced several letters of Alexander Maurocordato, the Turkish Mis nister, who had so much influence in the affairs of the Ottoman Cabinet between 1653 and 1699. The work is enriched with some notices upon learned Greeks, &c.

Sweden.

The Counsellor of State, Moscati, a celebrated Physician of Italy, has lately sent to Mr. Alibert, physician John George Eck, Professor of Phi of the hospital of St. Louis, at Paris, losophy at Leipsic, has published a two magnificent designs of the pelagre, Tour in Sweden, containing a variety a disease peculiar to the Milanese. of information relative to Swedish Lis This cutaneous eruption makes its ap- terature, the manners and dress of the pearance annually in the spring, and Swedes, their commerce, the beauties disappears in the month of September. of nature, the most remarkable objects What is very remarkable in this dis- in the capital, &c.; besides Stockease, is, that it almost always throws holm, the author visited Gefle, Falun, the persons who are seized with it in- Upsal, Warstad, Nykoping, Land to a state of complete madness. Dr. croua, Lund, and Christiansand; and Moscati has also sent to Mr. Alibert a returned to Germany, from Ystad, by representation of a new kind of Itch way of Stralsund and Grjefswald, in fictiosis) or scaly leprosy, which has Poinerania. pot bitherto been described.

UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VIII,

An Institution for the cure of the 2X

Deaf and Dumb, has lately been esta- more easy than it was, by suppressing blished in Sweden. The number of all expence of useless water. M. A. these persons is very great there. Up- Pictet, Tribune, who has mentioned sal, Vekis, Calmar, Kera, and Carlstadt, alone, contain 287.

it'in the Report made to the Legisla tive Body on the project of a law relaThe Commentaries of Proclus on tive to the imposts for the constructhe first book of Euclid's Elements, is tion of inland communications, has publishing at Upsal, by M. Aurivilius. given the following idea of it. Each The defective state of the Greek text, sluice, instead of one lock, has two, in this work, first induced Francis contiguous to each other, and which Barrocius, a Patrician of Venice, to communicate below. One is intended correct it, and to fill up the chasms to raise and lower vessels as by the usual from manuscripts discovered at Bo- method; but the vertical motion of the logna, and in the island of Crete. liquid which bears them is produced by His Latin translation of the same, the immersion or emersion of a chest published at Venice 1560, was trans- in the contiguous lock. The bulk of lated into English by Mr. Taylor, and this chest is equal to the volume of published in 1788. The corrections water to be displaced, and it is so acand additions made by the present curately and ingeniously balanced, Swedish editor, are from a Greek co- that one single person is sufficient to py of the Basil edition, by Conrad perform the manœuvres necessary for Dasypodius, of Strasbourg. raising or lowering the largest barge. Spain. Thus, in future, the supply of water,

M. Beltancourt, chief engineer of which was one of the principal difficulhis Majesty the King of Spain, has ties in the construction of canals, will communicated to the French Institute, be confined to the quantity requisite a new invention, which will render to make good the loss by infiltration the construction of canals infinitely and evaporation.

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THEATRICAL INFORMATION.

THE Proprietors and Editor of the Universal Magazine, constantly anxious to merit the patronage they have received, and to advance claïms to its extension, have at length resolved upon opening a new source of gratification and amusement to their readers. The Theatrical Amusements of a Country form a leading Feature, and have a decided moral and political influence upon a people, It deservedly too, holds a high rank in the estimation of those whose approbation is the best proof of its excellence. Whatever, therefore, tends to exalt this art, to give it chastness and dignity, to stimulate the powers of actors, and to repress the licence of subaltern buffoonery; whatever has for its object to regulate the propriety of scenic exhibition, to decide upon the merit of picces brought forward, and to discriminate the powers of performers, must ever be considered among the most interesting subjects of attention. It is therefore intended, in the ensuing numbers of the Universal Magazine, to exalt this department into a sort of Theatrical Tribunal, with regard to the novelties of the Theatre, its costume, the performance of remarkable charac ters, the delineation of particular passages and other collateral subjects. It is not intended to be a chronological account of dramatic Exhibitions, but merely a rich selection of the prominent delicacies of each month; and we feel fully confident that the plan, and the nature of its execution, will form a distinguishing feature in our future labours.

APOLLONIAN CRITIC.

"SEMPER FIDELIS."

"Dominion's Symbol, or the British Flag." Sung with the most unprecedented applause, by Mr. Slader. Composed by M. P. Corri. 18. To

O the assertion in the title of this excellent National Song, that it was received with unbounded appro

bation by a British audience, we give full credit. Indeed, whether we view its subject, or its composition, we consider it equally entitled to the applause of Britons. Right glad are we at such an awful crisis as is the present, when there seems to be an alarm

ing disposition, in a certain quarter, to Annual Country Dances. But the concede some of our dearest, most an- set now before us is arranged with so cient, and most honourable maritime much ability and taste, as to warrant rights, to find that such a song has our particular notice. And we fear been brought forward at one of our no impeachment of our judgment, for theatres. May the example be fol- asserting, that we think thein greatly. lowed in every theatre in the United superior to any collection of Dances Kingdom. that has appeared for several years.

Into the composition of this song For the justice of these encomiums Mr. Corri has thrown all that fire and our readers will perhaps give us creanimation that his subject required. dit, when we inform them that among We have before had occasion more the composers of these Dances they than once, to bestow commendation will find the names of Von Esch, on the music of this ingenious author, Sanderson, and Corri. but never with such complete satisfaction as on the present. The words " are by a Mr. Cross, and which we shall insert.

T. Your slack-jaw belay, if you ask Jack's opinion,

Our flag 'tis to hoist to the breeze,
Or die at our guns, e'er we yield the domi-

nion

We proudly possess of the seas.
Our birthright recorded in maritime story,
Which 'gainst the whole world we'll
maintain,

And ever obey'd shall the SYMBOL OF
GLORY,

The BRITISH FLAG, fly at the main.
Our rule to dispute, urged by envy and

rancour,

Oft Navy to Navy hath joined,

T.

The Lady in the Lobster," a collection of Ballads, written by Rosa Matilda. Composed and dedicated to her serene highness the Margravine of Anspach, by Augustus Voigt. 10s. 6d.

The titles of the Ballads in this col
lection, are as follow, viz.
The Zephyr.

The Lady in the Lobster.
Cupid's Metamorphosis.
Oh! canst thou cruel see me die!
The Little Laughing Boy.
The Poor Negro Sadi.

To which is prefixed, an Intrada, or prelude, of two movements-an Adagio and a Siciliano, which we think

But promptitude ever hath proved our very pleasing. The Zephyr is an imi

For nautical aid all implore,
Our maritime rights to invade, long may
sigh for,

And pant to invade Britain's shore.
Bat true to ourselves 'mid the world's wild

commotion,

We bravely those rights will maintain, And for ever the GLORY, the PRIDE of the

ocean,

The BRITISH FLAG, flies at the main.

tation of Burka, and is a very pretty ballad; the music of which we very much admire, and consider it as one of the happiest efforts of Mr. Voigt's musical genius, and we doubt not will generally please those performers who are fond of the pathetic style. The Lady in the Lobster is the next in succession, and gives name to the whole collection; but why it does so we cannot tell, as it appears to us to bear no particular relation to the others;

the music of this ballad is written with spirit, and displays a considerable degree of taste. Cupid's Metamorphosis is also a composition of considerable merit, and is well adapted to the subject of the ballad. Oh! canst thou cruel see me die! is the next in succession, but we think the least in merit.— "Purday and Button's Twelve elegant Of the glee, The Little Laughing Boy, New Dances for the year 1808. Ar- we have already given our opinion in ranged for the Harp or Pano Forte, a former number, and still think it intiwith correct Figures, as danced at tled to our highest approbation.-The Court, Bath, Brighton, and all po- Poor Negro Sudi is the best written lite Assemblies." Book I. 1s, 6d. ballad of the whole, and we consider It is not customary with us to re- the music to be adapted to the words view such ephemeral productions as with much propriety, combining a