and Mr. Sinclair, who had too little employment, sang most sweetly, and in a duelling trio proved himself equal to all kinds of sharps -and flats. Maid a farce of older times, when such be- more popular in his day, and many of his de-ject had been referred, speaks in terms of strong ings existed. In its revival, Mrs. Edwin is lightful compositions will continue to charm commendation of a paper by M. Serullas, remuch distinguished as a votary of a school of generations yet to come. specting a new compound of chlorine and cyaart of which we see too little on the modern The French Scientific Expedition to Egypt.-nogen, or perchlorate of cyanogen, cyanic stage. The compliment will be understood, if Letters have been received in Paris from dif- acid. It is said that the facts which this chewe state that her acting in this piece made us ferent persons who form part of this expedition, mist has discovered are of the highest importthink of Mrs. Davenport, and still more of Mrs. to the middle of November; but we do not find ance, and that he is entitled to admiration for Gibbs: it was truly comic and excellent, and was that they contain accounts of any new disco- the courage with which he exposed himself to deservedly applauded throughout (including an veries of interest. In addition to the letters the serious dangers that attended his various encored song). Mathews, in a hot (Captain) already published in this country, some of the investigations and experiments. Curry, threw much fun into the scene. Miss French papers contain communications of less Vaucluse. The lovers of romance will reDaly, at short notice (pro Miss Graddon, with pretension, from other gentlemen, who appear gret to hear that the neighbourhood of this a bad cold), acquitted herself very cleverly; to have been equally struck with the wonders celebrated fountain has been much deteriorated of Egypt. It would seem, from their descrip- by time and the progress of society. A large tion of Cairo, that the gaieties and amusements paper-mill occupies the place where once stood of the French Palais Royal fall far short of the the venerable castle of the lords of the soil. festivities of the Egyptian city. The Sorgue, formerly so poetical, is become an duration of cold, during the night, ever known ber of manufactories of various kinds. Extremes of Heat and Cold. The longest industrious stream, and gives motion to a num. at Berlin, was in 1823, from the 30th of De- Optics. M. de Loche, a member of the cember to the 10th of January, when the ther- Academical Society of Savoy, has published an mometer, during the twelve nights, was 10 de- account of an optical phenomenon, on which he 1776, from the 25th January to the 2d Febru- because it consists in giving the effect of transgrees below zero of Réaumur; and in the year bestows the name of "apparent translucidity;" ary, the thermometer, for the ten nights, stood parency to an opaque body interposed between at the same point. In 1823, even during the one of the eyes of the observer and a distant day, the thermometer was constantly below object, in such a manner that the details of heat was in 1826, from the 5th to the 10th of opaque body, and that the two images are seen The greatest duration of that object are projected on the surface of the July, when the thermometer was, during the in superposition. day, above 25 of Réaumur (upwards of 83 of Fahrenheit); and it was the same in 1802, meter has been invented at Paris, of which from the 21st to the 25th of August. The report speaks highly. A letter from M. de greatest cold known in St. Petersburgh was Humboldt characterises it as an admirable in357 below zero of Fahrenheit; and the greatin the year 1772, when the thermometer was strument. Ar the larger theatres during the last eight days there has been a repose upon successfully established pieces; so that we have only to intimate the note of preparation for novelties next week: namely, a new opera, the words and music by Bishop; a new comedy, in three acts, by Lunn, and powerfully cast; and a farce from the mirth-making pen of Peake. In the way of dramatic gossip, we may notice that Kean has definitively quitted Covent Garden, in consequence of the results of his late sudden illness; and that Liston met with an accident in stepping from his carriage, by which his shoulder was dislocated, but, being speedily replaced, the bad effect has not been so severe as to prevent him from continuing to perform. We observe that the licenser, Mr. Colman, has been most officiously and vexatiously interfering with the Oratorios, which, under the able direction of Mr. Hawes, promised to begin with great taste and spirit last night. He, it seems, has forbidden the performance of Mehul's "Joseph and his Brethren," because it was not licensed-no fees paid. Mr. Hawes was thus compelled to substitute another oratorio; and has had the courage and good sense to meet this oppressive act by a public appeal. Indeed, the licenser has been far too long permitted to annoy the drama, by the puerile and absurd obstacles which he is continually imposing. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC. On Saturday last, the pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, under the patronage of his Majesty, commenced a second series of operatic performances for three nights at the English Opera House, with the Barber of Seville. The cast of parts was the same as before, and De Begnis directed the whole with his wonted tact and spirit. zero of Fahrenheit. New Thermometer. A horizontal thermo Homography. Such is the name (implying stood at 26-7 of Réaumur 914 of Fahrenheit. the object represented,) which the inventor of a est heat was in 1788, when the thermometer that the representation is derived directly from At Berne, in Switzerland, however, the ex-new mode of lithography devoted to the repretremes of heat and cold have occasionally been sentation of plants has given to his invention. more intense than in St. Petersburgh. In the The Académie des Sciences has referred the year 1789 the thermometer stood, at Berne, at consideration of it to a committee. 24 below zero of Réaumur; and in the year 1807 the heat was, at one time, 29 of Réaumur, published a letter on a new cubit recently Egyptian Cubit. — M. Jomard has lately or 95-25 of Fahrenheit. At Montpelier, in the found at Memphis by M. Drovetti, comparing year 1823, the heat was so great, that for two it with the various measures of the same dethan 100 of Fahrenheit. In the year 1795 the appears to agree in essential respects, although or three days the thermometer marked more scription hitherto known; and with which it extreme of cold at Paris was 188 below the it differs from them in minute particulars. freezing point of Réaumur, or 8-68 below the freezing point of Fahrenheit; and the extreme of heat in 1793 was 30-7 of Réaumur, or 996 of Fahrenheit. Frederick Von Schlegel, the celebrated German lecturer and poet, died a few days ago at Vienna. Freedom of Education.-Several Societies in Paris have combined to offer a prize of 1,500 francs for the best essay in favour of freedom The Melodists' Club had its first meeting on of education. The principal topics to which Thursday, at Freemasons' Tavern, where the they wish the competitors to direct their attenattendance was numerous, and the musical tion are, the right or expediency of the legisentertainment delicious. His Royal Highness lative, the executive, or any other public the Duke of Sussex was announced as patron, authority intermeddling with education; the and several noblemen as vice-presidents: we will give some account of the meeting in our next Number. VARIETIES. necessity for any precautions or regulations Yellow Fever. A physician at Viana, in Mr. Shield. This celebrated composer, the father of English melody, died on Sunday last at a very advanced age. No man was ever Chemistry. The report of a committee of the Académie des Sciences, to whom the sub. A Tough Morsel.-A French writer, speaking of the relative situation of England and Ireland, says that the larger island devoured the smaller, but has never been able to digest it! LITERARY NOVELTIES. A second edition is preparing of an Itinerary of ProJohn Hughes, A. M. of Oriel College, Oxford, and illusvence and the Rhone, made during the year 1819, by trated by views from the drawings of De Wint, and engraved by W. B. Cooke, G. Cooke, and J. C. Allen, uniform with Batty and other European scenery. Mr. Valpy is now publishing a series of School and College Greek Classics, with English notes, in a duodecimo Edipus of Sophocles, are ready; and Thucydides, Heform; the Medea and Hecuba of Euripides, as well as the rodotus, Xenophon, &c. are to follow in succession. poem entitled the Fall of Nineveh, for March next. The extensive historical work by Sir James Mackintosh, so long expected, is now so nearly ready for the press, that the first volume will, we are assured, appear in the early part of the ensuing season. Contemporaneously with this work, Sir James has been induced to prepare for the Cabinet Cyclopædia a Popular History of England, forming three volumes of that publication. Such a sketch of English history has been long a desideratum in our literature. 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London, 1829. profess a religion which he did not approve, charge of the naval armament, he should reBaldwin and Cradock; and B. Fellowes. declared his determination to emancipate him-ceive every year of the war the sum of three THIS, the penultimate volume of Dr. Lingard's self from this restraint, and requested the millions of livres from the King of France: great work, carries on his History from the opinion of those present, as to the most eligible 8. That out of the conquests which might be establishment of the Commonwealth, 1649, to means of effecting his purpose with safety and made during the war, his Britannic majesty the year 1673; the remainder of the reign of success. They advised him to communicate should be satisfied with Walcheren, Sluys, and Charles, and that of James, being intended for his intention to Louis, and to solicit the power- the island of Cadsand; and that, in separate the concluding volume. Like those which have ful aid of that monarch. Here occurs a very articles, provision should be made for the preceded it, the present portion of Dr. L.'s interesting question,--was Charles sincere or interests of the Prince of Orange, so that labours is very ably written; and, speaking of not? That of the two churches he preferred he might find his advantage in the war: 9. it simply in a literary point of view, is deserving the more ancient, there can be no doubt. Both of a high eulogium. Whether the author is the Duke of Ormond and Daniel O'Nial had partial, whether he suppresses or mistates, seen reason to suspect him of a secret leaning we leave it to critics who have more leisure for towards the Catholic worship about the time inquiry and comparison to determine: it is of the conferences at the Pyrenees; and he had enough for us to observe, that great talents are recently avowed the same to Arlington and evident throughout, that the style is good, and Clifford. But the king's religious belief was that the reader is borne along by the narrative of his own creation.” in a very agreeable manner; while the foot references shew that the author has not been sparing of research. Considering, perhaps, that, as a Roman Catholic, Dr. Lingard must have strong feelings towards one side, and, it is more than probable, proposed to himself to advance its cause and the cause of his religion by this History, it is but just to confess, that there is an apparent fairness in his statements, which is well calculated to obtain belief for them, and which could only be shaken by such arguments and proofs as have been brought against some of his former quotations and assertions. We enter no farther into the question; but proceed to notice the principal feature developed in the volume before us, as a specimen of its other and more general characteristics. In 1669, it is said, Dr. Heylin's History of the Reformation shook "the credulity" of James, the Duke of York, and led to his reconciliation with the Church of Rome : Now, however, the secret negotiation with Louis proceeded with great activity; and that infamous treaty of 1670, alluded to by Mr. Fox in his Life of James II., but the existence of any copy of which has been doubted, was the result. Of this bargain, Dr. L. remarks: Some curious and disgraceful political manceuvring ensued, one of the chief objects of which was to mystify the Duke of Buckingham, and his colleagues Ashley and Lauderdale. Dalrymple, whose Memoirs are the most statesman-like and sagacious of any published relative to the period, is referred to for the fact, that Buckingham, "the dupe, had the satisfaction of concluding a treaty, of which he vainly deemed himself the author, but which in reality "Though much was afterwards said, little was a mere copy of the former, with the sole was certainly known. All the parties con- omission of the article respecting religion." cerned, both the sovereigns and the negotiators, Who were the cheaters, and who the cheats, observed an impenetrable secrecy. What be- it is not easy to decide at this late hour: came of the copy transmitted to France, is un-it was a time of utter profligacy and prostitu known: its counterpart was confided to the tion; and it is hardly uncharitable to surmise, custody of Sir Thomas Clifford, and is still in that the principal actors generally were a set the keeping of his descendant, the Lord Clif- of selfish and unprincipled scoundrels. During ford of Chudleigh. The principal articles were: epochs of long repose and political tranquillity, 1. That the King of England should publicly men have few temptations to tempt them to profess himself a Catholic at such time as should swerve from honesty and tolerable consistency; appear to him most expedient, and subsequently but this is circumstance not human nature. to that profession should join with Louis in a When struggle comes, when interests clash, war against the Dutch republic, at such time when sudden and violent transitions take place, as the most Christian king should judge pro- as in all cases of revolution, whether ministerial per: 2. That to enable the King of England to or national, the baser principles invariably rush "He was not blind," it seems," to the suppress any insurrection which might be oc- into play, and the baser persons acquire the dangers to which such a change would expose casioned by his conversion, the King of France most notorious ascendency (for where virtue him; and he therefore purposed to continue should grant him an aid of two millions of exists, it seeks refuge in retirement); and we outwardly in communion with the established livres, by two payments, at the expiration of witness such scenes as the English commonchurch, while he attended at the Catholic ser- three months, and six months after the ratifi- wealth and the French republic exhibited, to vice in private. But, to his surprise, he cation of the treaty; and should also assist him the dismay and regret of all lovers of true learned from Symonds, a Jesuit missionary, with an armed force of six thousand men, if the liberty. Nay, were we to look no farther back that no dispensation could authorise such du- service of such a force should be thought neces- than the last twelve months of our own history, plicity of conduct: a similar answer was re- sary: 3. That Louis should observe invio- what a frightful aspect of trimming and tergiturned to the same question from the pope; and lably the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and Charles versation would meet our eyes in a hundred James immediately took his resolution. He be allowed to maintain that treaty in confor- barefaced instances; a stain upon the boasted communicated to the king in private that he mity with the conditions of the triple alliance: independence and honour of the British chawas determined to embrace the Catholic faith; 4. That if, eventually, any new rights on the racter! Men following servilely that which and Charles, without hesitation, replied, that Spanish monarchy should accrue to the King of they bitterly opposed; supporting that which he was of the same mind, and would consult France, the King of England should aid him they swore their lives were pledged to resist; with the duke on the subject in the presence with all his power in the acquisition of those and, more contemptible and miserable still, vaof Lord Arundel, Lord Arlington, and Ar- rights: 5. That both princes should make war cillating this way and that, in a disposition not lington's confidential friend, Sir Thomas Clif- on the United Provinces, and that neither unworthy of the profligate days of Charles, till ford. Of these three, the first was a known should conclude peace or truce with them with- they can ascertain which creed, political or Catholic; the other two had hitherto professed out the advice and consent of his ally: 6. That religious, it will best suit their interests to themselves Protestants, but more for fashion's the King of France should take on himself the choose. But let us return to our historian of sake, than through any real attachment to the whole charge of the war by land, receiving older date, for a pattern,— reformed creed. They, like most others in the from England an auxiliary force of six thou- "To all an example, to no one a pattern"higher circles of society at that period, had, in sand men: 7. That by sea Charles should fur-he continues from our last extract: |