other important cities, is a story derided were found eager in their inquiries after by the Japanese priesthood. On visiting English books. the great temple on the hills of Nang- While the commissioner was at Nanggasaki, the English commissioner was gasaki, there arrived a large detachment received with marked regard and respect of officers of rank, who had been out by the venerable patriarch of the north- nearly four years and not yet completed ern provinces, eighty years of age, who one-fourth of a survey on which they entertained him most sumptuously. On were engaged. These officers were at showing him round the courts of the tended by a numerous and splendid temple, one of the English officers pre- retinue, and were employed in making sent heedlessly exclaimed in surprise, an actual survey of every foot of the emJasus Christus! The patriarch, turning pire and the dependent isles. The surhalf round, with a placid smile, bowed vey appeared to be conducted on a scisignificantly expressive of "We know entific principle, to be most minute and you are Jasus Christus; well, don't ob- accurate in its execution, and to have trude him upon us in our temples, and for its object the completion of a reguwe remain friends;" and so, with a hearty lar geographical and statistical descripshake of the hands these two opposites tion. 1 parted. In a word, the opinion of Dr. Ainslie It is an extraordinary fact that for is, that the Japanese are a people with seven years past, since the visit of Cap- whom the European world might hold tain Pellew, notwithstanding the deter- intercourse without compromise of chamination of the empire not to enter into racter. For the Japanese themselves, foreign commerce, the English language they are wonderfully inquisitive in all has, in obedience to an edict of the Em- points of science, and possess a mind cuperor, been cultivated with considerable rious and anxious to receive information,. success by the younger members of the without inquiring whence it comes. College of Interpreters, who indeed BRITISH LEGISLATION. ACTS PASSED in the 55th YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE THIRD, or in the THIRD SESSION of the FIFTH PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. CAP AP. I. To revive and continue, un- dons to Persons under Sentence of Naval 'til the 25th of March 1818, several Courts-martial, and to regulate ImprisonLaws relating to the Duties on Glass ment under such Sentences.-4th March. made in Great Britain.-26th Feb. Cap. II. To revive and further continue, until the 25th of March 1817, an Act of the seventh year of King George the Second, for the free Importation of Cochineal and Indigo.-26th Feb. Cap. VI. To continue, until the 5th of July 1816, un Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of his present Majesty, for explaining and amending several Acts relating to Spiritual Persons holding of Farms, and for enforcing the Residence of such Persons on their Benefices, in England.-22d March. Cap. III. For continuing certain Duties on Malt, Sugar, Tobacco, and Snuff, in Great Britain; and on Pen- Cap. VII. To continue until the 5th sions, Offices, and Personal Estates, in of April, 1818, and amend an Act of the England; for the service of the Year forty-eighth Year of his present Majesty, 1816-4th March. Cap. IV. For raising the Sum of Eleven Millions, by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of Great Britain, for the year 1816-4th March. Cap. V. To extend the Powers of an Act of the thirty-seventh Year of his present Majesty, for enabling his Majesty more effectually to grunt conditional Par for empowering the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to advance the Sum of Three Millions towards the Supply for the Service of the year 1808. -22d March. Cap. VIII. To continue until the 5th of July 1817, for the 49th Geo. III. regulating the Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of G.Hope.-22dMar. Cap. IX. For charging certain Duties on Foreign Packets or Passage Vessels entering or departing any of the Ports of Great Britain.-22d March. French Packets to pay a Duty of 3s. 6d, per Ton.---Packets not paying the Duty may be deteined and sold.---Government empowered to fix the Duty to be paid for Packets of other Foreign Countries.--- Vessels of Pleasure not affected. Cap. X. For punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.-22d March. Number of Forces 176,615. Cap. XI. For the regulating of his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. 22d March. Cap. XII. For exhibiting a Bill in this present Parliament, for naturalizing Leopold George Frederick Duke of Suxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Cobourg of Sualfeld.-28th March. England to advance the Sum of Six Cap. XV. To carry into Effect a Convention of Commerce, concluded between his Majesty and the United States of America.-April 11. Cap. XVI. For better regulating the Offices of Receivers of Crown Rents.-11th April. Cap. XVII. To continue, until the 5th of July 1821, certain additional Duties of Excise in Great Britain.11th April. Cap. XVIII. To suspend, until the 5th of April 1820, the Duty on Lead exported from Great Britain.-11th April. Cap. XXI. To continue, until the 5th of July 1816, an Act of the forty-seventh Year of his present Majesty, for grantiag an additionat Bounty on double refined Cap. XIII. For the Naturalization Sugar exported.-11th April. of Leopold George Frederick Duke of Cap. XX. To make further ProviSaxe, Margrave of Meissen Landgrave sion for the Execution of the several Acts of Thuringuen, Prince of Cobourg of relating to the Revenues, Matters and Saalfeld; and settling his Precedence. Things, under the Management of the Commissioners of Customs and Port DuAfter taking the Oaths, he shall be deemed ties, and of the Commissioners of Inland a natural-born Subject. Cap. XIV. For empowering the Go- Excise and Taxes in Ireland.-11th vernor and Company of the Bank of April. -29th March. REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. prosaical irregularity may be blended with, and reconciled to, musical rhythm; or, to speak in Mr. D.'s emphatic phraseology, "to unite constant change with constant certainty," was an arduous Canto Recitativo, or a System of English Chant, subject of combining rhetorical accent designed for private practice, and the use of with musical pronunciation, we are glad Choirs and Congregations; by J.Dixon. 11. 1s. THIS very useful and laudable pubto find the task undertaken by so adeTo demonstrate how lication contains, beside the Preces quate a hand. and Responses of the church service, the hymns of the Liturgy, applied to music. This part of his design the author has executed in two different forms of chant; -in that which has long been in common use, and a new and more concise effort, and demanded more than commode; for the practical application of which, he has added a variety of original, double, and single chants; most of which are good in their kind, and some truly excellent. With Mr. Dixon's observations in his mon abilities. Thinking, again, with England upon the appearance of a work The introduction to this valuable judicions and modest preface, respecting the errors and imperfections of ecclesiastical chanting, we entirely acquiesce; and, as to efficient directory, or guide, volume exhibits all the accuracy and had been offered to the public upon the precision of earnest study, and cannot છે be too attentively read by all who are and be worthy the acquisition of every Number I. of the New Tout Ensemble, for the Piano-forte, consisting of favorite selections from the works of various composers. 2s. 6d. Should this publication proceed in a style consistent with the qualities of the opening number, we shall only have to hope that its merits may be proportionately appreciated by the public. The subject of the Rondo which forms the article under our eye, is not only pleasing but elegant; and the adscititious are characterized by their happy variegation, and the relief they afford to necessary recurrence of the burden of the piece. strains the A Rondo for the Piano-forte; composed by J. The single and double chants adduced in illustration of the system laid down, supply forty-nine pages of musical composition; to which is added, the whole book of Psalms, with each verse divided by a colon, and subdivided by bars, shewing the measures and accents, or musical prosody, of each verse, as also its The theme of this Rondo, is novel, introductory and intermediary excesses. gay and attractive. The chief merit of A grand Duett, for two performers on one the adscititious matter consists in its Piano-forte composed and dedicated to Miss pleasing affinity to the subject, and the Scott and Miss H. Scott, by J. Gildon. 5s. freedom with which a due advantage is This Duett, though, perhaps, not en- taken of the composer's skill in modutirely free from passages that a less able lation. The imitations are at once apcomposer would have avoided, is (ge- propriate to the horn, and to the leading nerally considered) a superior, and, in- ideas of the composition, while, without deed, very excellent production. It being reminded of other passages, simiconsists of two movements, whose themes lar in their object, we hear the tones, and are good in their several kinds, and feel the very genius and character of the whose matter, regarded in the aggre- instrument intended to be copied. gate, is marked with vivacity and in- Theme, by Henry Bishop, esq. with variations vention. for the Piano-forte; composed by Ferdinand Ries. 3s. One art we must allow Mr. Gildon to This theme is in compound common possess to a considerable extent; we time, Andantino quasi allegretto. The mean, that of bending his ideas, and ideas of which it consists are simple and producing a consentaneous link of bars, interesting, and form a connected and each of whose successive impressions consistent whole. The execution is belong to, and derive considerable force distributed with an attention to the and beauty from that by which it is exercise of both the hands; and is, we preceded, or prepared. This power of think, of a description to profit the pracselecting from, combining, and giving titioner. A mixture of taste and brillirelationship to such thoughts as offer ancy pervades the passages, and the prethemselves during the effort of compo- vailing effect is reputable to the talents sition, is so far from being an ordinary and judgment of the composer. one, as to form a very valuable requisite, * *Several pieces are deferred. * VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL. THE HE directors of the British Insti- of the royal and private galleries of this tution have made an arrangement country, one hundred and twenty-five for the present season highly acceptable specimens of the Italian and Spanish to the lovers and students of the fine schools, and have exhibited them arts. at They have collected, from some their gallery in Pall-Mall, at one shil ling per visit, or a guinea for the season. Mr. BULLOCK, of Piccadilly, whose The pictures, thus assembled, consist of various collections are so great an ornatwo of the best of the Cartoons of Ra- ment of the metropolis, has lately adphael, and six other pictures of that ded to the attraction of his exhibition prince of painters; there are also two of natural curiosities by some varieties finished pictures of Leonardo da Vinci, of art. During a late visit to Rome, he besides some rough sketches for car- collected many rare articles, with which toons; one Corregio sketch-three Carlo he has for some weeks been gratifying. Dolcis-four Andrea del Sartos-two the public, on the ground-floor of his Parmegianos-four Domenichinos-six London Museum. Among these are exquisite Murillos-four Guidos-nine two pictures, chef-d'œuvres of art, by Titians-five Claudes-nine Annibal M. LE THIERE, a French painter, Carraccis-besides Salvator Rosas, hitherto unknown to the British public, Poussins, Guercinos, Bassanos, Geor- but whose name will in future stand in giones, Cortonas, Albanos, and others. the very first rank of artists. It repreThe collection, as a whole, is perhaps sents the affecting judgment of Junius not equal to those of Lord Grosvenor, Brutus on his sons; and, the numerous the Marquises of Stafford and Exeter, figures being as large as life, it is of conMr. Hope, or the Dulwich Gallery; and siderable magnitude, but its size is not not more than a fourth of them can be greater than its merit in point of execuconsidered as pleasing and striking pic- tion, design, and general effect. The tures, or as fine specimens of the several other picture is of smaller size, and masters; yet it is highly interesting to represents Homer reciting the Iliad, enjoy, for a time, so easy an access in and is, perhaps, superior even to the the centre of the metropolis to such rare other in chasteness of colouring, groupproductions of art. The noblemen and ing, and drawing. M. LE THIERE is gentlemen who have liberally assisted president of the French School, founded the Gallery from their collections, are the at Rome by the EMPEROR NAPOLEON; Marquises of Stafford and Lansdowne; and his genius does justice to the muniEarls Grosvenor, Cowper, and Powlett; ficence of his patron, and raises him to the Earls of Aberdeen, Darnley, and the same rank among modern painters, Suffolk; Lords Northwick and Anson; which Canova possesses among sculpSirs T. Baring, A. Hume, G. Beau- tors. Mr. BULLOCK has also brought to mont, W. W. Wynn, and S. Clark; the England two splendid Mosaic paveRev. Mr. Carr; and Messrs. West, ments, recently found on the floors of Knight, Miles, Byng, Hibbert, Coke, the baths of Nero, as much superior to Baring, Long, and Hope; besides some English specimens of that branch of art, choice pieces from the Dulwich Gallery. as the pictures of Westall to the daubs One of the best of the Raphaels is St. of a country sign-post. He has also Catherine, with one hand on the wheel; gratified the public with a specimen of but, as an expression of resignation and the transcendent skill of Canova, in two tranquillity, how inferior to the St. Ca- figures, which seem to move and breathe. therine of Corregio, who is looking The whole of this assemblage of rarities downward on a missal in her hand, the has its attractions increased by the exoriginal of which is in possession of the hibition of the travelling carriage and Editor of this Magazine. How inferior equipage of Napoleon, the same in which too are the Claudes to those of Mr. An- that chieftain proceeded from Paris gerstein; and, we may add, the other to join the patriot armies of France, pieces of the same masters in the col- assembled to defend their country from lection of that gentleman. Mr. Miles's aggression and invasion. It was taken Dominichinos; Mr. Baring's Da Vinci; by the Prussians, sold to government, Sir T. Baring's Carlo Dolci; Sir S. and re-sold, or lent, to Mr. Bullock, as Clark's Murillos; Mr. Carr's Del Sarto; a Prussian trophy, with which to amuse and Lord Northwick's Da Vinci, fill John Bull, under the sufferings which every beholder with rapture. the acquisition has cost him. 3 Z MON. MAG. No. 285. As every thing connected with the name and ac- Arabic words, on the conquest of Persia tions of the hero of France possesses an by the Kalifs, and immediate succesundiminished, and we may say an in- sors of Mahammed; compiled by a creased, attraction, Mr. Bullock's rooms learned Moghul prince, who took the are constantly filled with company, and poetical name of Anju, by desire of the at least a hundred thousand persons have Emperor Acbar, and published it during already gratified themselves by sitting the reign of his son Jehangir, A. D. in the very chariot which once held 1617, after having devoted thirty years Napoleon le Grand. The economy of of his life to this laborious work, which space in this vehicle is like that of the he says is chiefly extracted from 44 diccells of a bee-hive, and is a great curi- tionaries, and other ancient vocabularies, osity, independently of the reverence and all of which have since perished, and sympathy excited by these reliques, now most of the significations confirmed by the illusions of political falsehood are quotations from the old and best Persian dissipated. Classics. Upwards of twenty years ago, We lament to state, that the pressure a valuable copy, nearly coeval with the of the times and the scarcity of money author, fell into Mr. R's hand, being are severely felt by booksellers, printers, then in Bengal; and in 1801 he made stationers, engravers, and other persons an offer, through that eminent Hindustaconnected with the sale and production ny scholar, Dr. John B. Gilchrist, then of books. This remark may relieve the a professor, to translate it for the use of feelings of those who might mistakenly the college just instituted in Calcutta ; consider their share of the common ca- and a copy of his letter, unknown to lamity as personal or peculiar. We him, appears as an original communicamay say,technically, that, except in estab- tion in the Asiatic Register of 1802; but lished periodical publications and school- the great Mahrattah war breaking out, books, this respectable branch of indus- his professional engagements diverted his try has not, for many years, experienced intentions, and most of his papers were such general discouragement. afterwards lost in a shipwreck he suffered The History of the Abbey Church of on his way home. His manuscript was St. Peter, Westminster, which is intend- however saved; and, having, through a to form two volumes in royal and impe- friend, and at the India-house, got two perial quartos, and to be enriched with other copies, he has again devoted the fifty engravings, in the line manner, by last few years entirely to the collation the first artists, is now rapidly proceeding and completion of his translation; and, if towards publication; the first part being he can secure the patronage of the Eastannounced for appearance in the ensu- India Company, or of Government, he ing autumn. All the drawings will be has little doubt of being ready to print it made by M. J. P. NEALE, the proprie next spring; but, though he has no hope tor; and the historical, biographical, and or wish to derive any personal profit descriptive parts, will be written by a from it, the expence of such a work, and gentleman perfectly qualified for the un- small demand, must deter him from vendertaking, by many years' experience in turing it at his own risque. Firdosi, in antiquarian and topographical literature. his Shahnamah, and many of his cotemIt is the purpose both of the proprietor poraries, prided themselves in using pure and his associate, to render this a com- Persian, to the exclusion of Arabic and plete national work, and worthy of be- all other foreign words; yet it were useing classed with the best performances of less to refer to Richardson's Persian the kind that this country has produced. Dictionary, or even Wilkin's improved JAMES Ross, esq. member of the edition of it, for the significations of nine Asiatic Society, has in a state of great out of ten of them. Moreover, the author forwardness for the press, an entire and being a scholar and man of taste, the exliteral translation of the Farhangi Je- amples that he quotes are now valuable, hangīrī, or a Dictionary of pure Persian as perhaps the only remains of authors words, as they existed previous to that once as much esteemed in the East as antient language being inundated with Menander was among the Greeks, but |