nificance of the part allowed. Mr. Penley's Aufidius was endued with a most pragmatical sternness; and this rough warlike soldier was so coxcombical that we could only wonder how, with such a hero at their head, the Volscians had stomach to fight at all, or could resist any attack. Gattie was hardly respectable in Menenius; and the rest-heaven rest them!

The applause, on the second night, was extremely partial; but at the end, when Penley came forward to announce the next performance, some dozen “voices” raised the shout for Kean, who had just been carried off the stage in a very painful position, with his head hanging down. It is strange, that this senseless cry should ever be listened to; --if the imagination has been affected by the performance, it destroys the vision; and the best that can be done with regard to these injudicious friends of a tragic actor, who do him real injury by their favour, when they insist on such a call, is for the public to treat them with the obloquy and contempt bestowed upon other resurrection men.

COVENT GARDEN. On Saturday, a Mrs. de Jersey Beaumont, originally an actress of some celebrity in the North and West of Scotland, but recently from Philadelphia, attempted to sustain a leading tragic character on the London boards, and performed Isabella in the Mourning Bride. We have heard that the deserts and misfortunes of this lady in private life, obtained for her the trial of her powers in the metropolis, and are therefore grieved to say that they do not seem to be adequate to the situation. There was a want of pathos in her whole performance; and notwithstanding a marked straining after effect, she produced no sensation in the audience. Apathy, more fatal than censure, attended her exertions; and as she has not youth to encourage any hopes of improvement, we fear the effort must be set down as a failure.

THE ANTIQUARY, Our limits prevent us from going into any detail respecting this new musical drama, which was produced with complete success on Tuesday, and repeated every night this week. It is taken, with some alterations so as to bring on the denouement earlier, from the celebrated novel of the same name. Mr. Pocock, who has shown so much taste and judgment in productions of this stamp, is the author; and we believe that the skill and experience of Mr. Terry have been employed to give the finish in adapting the piece for the stage. The music, chiefly Scotch, is very pretty; and what is new, including a melody to words taken from The Literary Gazette (without an acknowledgement), not incongenial to the beauty and spirit of what has been selected. The performers do justice to the characters, and shall be mentioned more particularly hereafter. The scenery surpasses all precedent for correctness and beauty: one scene, representing the fearful rising of the tide upon the stage, is inconceivable to those who have not seen it, and baffles description. The house also overflows, and the Antiquary bids fair to run some time be fore it is thought antiquated.

FOREIGN DRAMA.

VARIETIES.

The first night of this drama was for the authors disowned by Minerva, forming altoCharity in the city; and we ought, perhaps, gether a tolerably numerous battalion, M. to record, that both here and at Drury Lane Odeon, the manager of the second Theatre an address was spoken, said to be poetry Français, conspires against M. Crifort, the and suited to the occasion, but seemingly manager of the first. His son l'Accident, and sad trash, and suited to no good purpose. Mademoiselle Omelie, his intended daughter-in-law, promise to second his plan, though Mademoiselle Omelie is secretly attached to Crifort; l'Accident is charged to keep a THEATRE DE LA GAIETE.- First repre- watchful eye on Crifort. But he soon relents, sentation of Bouton de Rose a melodrama in on reflecting that he is about to dethrone three acts. him to whom he is indebted for the first Delille de Sales, the author of the Philo-class he ever received. Gratitude triumphs sophy of Nature, left behind him a fairy tale, over every other sentiment, and so far from but little known, entitled Sige de Myrte et preventing his benefactor from quitting his Bouton de Rose, from which the author of own theatre, he gives him a ticket to see the new melodrama has borrowed one half the Vepres. Crifort being unbridled, and of his title, and some ideas. Bouton de Rose shewing an inclination to hiss the Vêpres, is a sprite endowed with wonderful power. l'Accident determines to call him to account. The King of the Genii has commissioned However he ultimately forgives him, and the him to visit the palace of Ormus, to defeat piece concludes with Odeon recommending the wicked designs of the enchanter Kalib, his friends to hold themselves in readiness the grand vizir, who is constantly inspired by to appear at the second representation of the the genius of evil. The mischievous enchanter Vepres to-morrow, at the rising of the curtain. is bent on the death the of princess Ellamira, daughter of the late king, because she had refused to marry him. His eyes being as penetrating as those of the lynx, he perceives Bouton de Rose concealed in a basket of flowers, listening to the disclosure of his designs. He utters only one word, makes only one sign, and the basket of flowers is metamorphosed into an iron cage, which he directs the fisherman Azem to throw into the river. However Azem, who is the son of an old minister disgraced by the intrigues of Kalib, is too good and too nobly born to perpetrate such cruelty; he delivers the amiable captive, and Bouton de Rose promises to reward him with the hand of Ellamira and the throne. Diamantine, the best of fairies, and mother-in-law to the Princess, consents to realize the promise, on condition that Azem shall previously undergo certain trials to prove that he possesses the virtues necessary in a husband and a king. Azem acquits himself triumphantly; he proves himself to be brave, just, and merciful; and, what is still better, that he possesses the most inviolable constancy towards his mistress. After a contest of enchantments between Bouton de Rose, Diamantine, and Kalib, by which the Princess is exposed to the greatest peril, the whole concludes with the coronation of Azem, and his marriage with Ellamira.

The melodrama was compleatly successful. Bouton de Rose was applauded to the skies. The scenery and decorations may rival the most splendid ballets of the Operu. The music, by Alexandre, is also deserving of commendation. The dialogue is by M. M. Guilbert and Pixericourt.

THEATRE DES VARIETES. First representation of Les Vepres Odéoniennes, a parody on Les Vépres Siciliennes.

Plymouth, Jan. 20.-It was high water here this morning at about nine o'clock, and a very high tide. The tide then fell 15 inches, and rose and fell again full 15 inches, seven or eight times in the space of half an hour. It excited the attention of every person in the dock-yard and on the river. À similar rise and fall were noticed here at the time of the great earthquake at Lisbon, and about seven years ago, when there were an earthquake and volcano in one of the Western Islands.

M. de Dreux, a distinguished French Architect, who has been studying at Rome for the last five years, has lately set out on a visit to Greece, with the view of transmitting some of the valuable remains of antiquity to the Museums of France. He intends to proceed immediately to Athens, where he will meet the learned Vice-Consul M. Fauvel, who will no doubt afford him that powerful assistance in his investigations, which he has already lent to M. M. Chateaubriand and Forbin.

ANECDOTES.

DR. LASSENIUS, CHAPLAIN TO THE DANISH

COURT.

John Lassenius, who died at Copenhagen, in 1692, was a celebrated divine, and a prolific author of this time. It is related of him, that he used always to stop in the middle of his sermon to take a cordial in a glass of wine, in the presence of the congregation, and then proceed with his discourse.Another anecdote of this man is so singular, that we are inclined to doubt its truth. It is as follows:-Lassenius, who had for a long The tragedy of the Sicilian Vespers has time perceived to his vexation, that during given rise to numerous parodies. The first his sermon the greatest part of the congreappeared at the Vaudeville, not much to gation were asleep, suddenly stopped, pulled the entertainment of the public. The Fari-a shuttlecock from his pocket, and began to etes come next in order. This parody is formed nearly on the same plan as that of the Vaudeville. Calling in as auxiliaries, dismissed debutants, young amateurs, and

play with it in the pulpit. This extraordinary circumstance naturally attracted the attention of that part of the congregation who were still awake. They jogged those who

were sleeping, and in a short time every | Logios," of the 1st of September, 1819, | transports it either to the Temple of Romubody was lively, and stared up to the pulpit contains, besides many other interesting ar- lus or the Church of St. Theodore. The with the greatest wonder. This was just ticles, a treatise in the form of Letters, on Temple of Saturn, (or rather the Acrarium) what Lassenius desired: for he immediately the many and important services which the began a most severe castigatory discourse, brothers Zosimas have done to Greece within saying, When I announce to you sacred these 20 years. The Messrs. Zosimas may and important truths, you are not ashamed be numbered amongst the first benefactors of to go to sleep, but when I play the fool you that unhappy country. They established are all eye and all ear!" at Jannina, in Epirus, their native country, a school of the first class, enriched it with an excellent library, endowed it with considerable funds for the salaries of the Professors, appointed pensions for poor Students, and upon the whole have spared no expence to raise their country from its degraded state. To their liberality we owe the appearance of the Greek Library, which is edited by Mr. Coray. The eldest of the brothers Zosimas has lived since his youth in the city of Moscow, where he has formed a valuable cabinet of antiquities, which is intended to be one day sent to Greece.

Norway. On the 7th of December last, the barometer rose at Christiana to 29 inches 16 lines, a height which it has not attained for many years. On the same day the sea was eight feet lower than it has been for the last twenty years; and the magnetic needle was so agitated, that Professor Gausteen could not come to any exact conclusion. This phenomenon seems to indicate a convulsion in some part of the globe.

We extract the following from the Journal of the Department of the Meuse. It affords a fresh instance of spontaneous combustion, to which all, but particularly women, are liable, who indulge in the excessive use of spirituous liquors :

"The widow Godard, aged 55, who lodged in the house of the Sieur Schelaide, at Saint Mihiel, in this department, and who was addicted to intemperate drinking, was burnt in her apartment on the night of the 1st of January. About three o'clock in the morning, the Sieur Schelaide discovering a foetid smell of burning through the partition which separated his apartment from that of the widow Godard, proceeded to force open her door. He found her lying on her left side, with her knees bent in the attitude of a person sitting; light flames were flitting above the body, which he easily extinguished with water, as the hydrogen gas was nearly exhausted. The clothes were entirely burnt, except a portion round the waist, the fragments of the stockings, and one of the shoes. A wicker chair, which was standing near the body, and a handkerchief which the deceased had worn on her head, were but little damaged. The head was only partially scorched, and the rest of the body was generally but unequally burnt. The stomach was entirely carbonized. An earthen chafing-pan, containing charcoal, was found near the body.

IMPROVEMENTS IN MODERN GREECE.

S. Kondos, a native of Greece, has began to publish a Greek Journal, under the title of" The Bee (Melissa) or Greek Ephemerides." The first number, 120 pages, contains articles on Bees, Agriculture, Education, English Literature, Thucydides, &c. &c. The same Author is going to publish a "General History, Ancient and Modern," of which the first volume, dedicated to Count Capo d'Istria, contains Prolegomena, and a Sketch of the History of Egypt. Bobée, the Parisian bookseller, is publisher of both these works. Mr. Bombas, one of the first Professors in the great College at Chios, has published "Elements of Moral Philosophy," in 1 vol. 8vo. and dedicated to the Greek Patriarch at Constantinople, which has been received with the greatest approbation in all the Greek schools. The last number of this Greek Journal, "Hermès ho

Two caverns were discovered last week at Gravesend by the sinking of the earth. These excavations are most probably ancient chalk-pits of Roman origin. On the south side of one of them are the remains of a flint arch, about two feet wide, leading into the other.

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is no longer the Church of St. Adrian; it is situated at the corner of the Consolazione, where Nardi placed it; and the Basilica Julia, and the Temple of Divus Cæsar, are in its vicinity. The Temple of Peace remains in ashes, and in its place, according to M. Nibby, are the ruins of a Basilick of Constantinus; the arcades, which were supposed to be so beautiful, are in bad taste, and the walls belong to the period when architecture was on the decline. The author informs us, that the Temple of Faustina was dedicated to Faustina the Younger, and not to the Elder: the words Divo Antonino were added at a more recent period. No satisfactory information can be collected respecting the Velatura of the Colyseum, which was to protect the spectators from the heat of the

sun.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

JANUARY, 1820.
Thursday, 20-Thermometer from 27 to 35.
Barometer from 29, 72 to 29, 79.
Wind N.W. andN.E. 4.-Snow in the evening.
Friday, 21-Thermometer from 30 to 36.
Barometer from 29, 31 to 29, 82.
Wind S. N. 1 and N. 2.-Cloudy fill the even-

Sunday, 23 - Thermometer from 10 to 37.

Barometer from 30, 29 to 30, 20. Wind S. E. and S. 3.-Generally hazy, sunshine at times.

Monday, 24-Thermometer from 35 to 49.

The forthcoming novel, entitled "Mystery, or Forty Years Ago," is not wholly a working, when it became clear. of fiction. It contains a correct picture of Saturday, 22-Thermometer from 14 to 28. Barometer, from 30, 15 to 30, 32. the state of London during those awful riots Wind N. E. Generally clear. which convulsed and threatened this vast metropolis with destruction in 1780. It also comprehends curious particulars of a real journey and residence in some of the least explored parts of Africa" Forty years ago,' and the great Saharra, on which no hero of romance (of avowed romance we mean), that we happen to be acquainted with, has ever ventured to set a foot. The celebrated Joseph Wall, and Major Houghton, are among the characters; and the persecutions sustained by the interesting and unfortunate traveller, from the tyranny of the murderous governor, is given on the authority of a correspondence which took place between them, from which two original letters are extracted, together with the substances of the charges preferred by Major Houghton against Governor Wall before he commenced that arduous and important enterprise which cost him his life.

M. Nibby, the antiquary, has just published at Rome a work entitled, Del foro Romano, della via sacra, dell anfiteatro Flavio, e dei luoghi adgialenti. If the opinions of this antiquary should be confirmed, many ancient ruins will change their names, and several points of the topography of ancient Rome will be displaced. The Temple of Jupiter Stator, (which has for some years been called the Temple of Castor and Pollux) is in M. Nibby's work called the Grecostasis; the Temple of Concord (afterwards called the Temple of Juno-Montae) is now styled the Temple of Fortune. The Temple of Vesta is no longer to be looked for beneath the Farnese Gardens; M. Nibby

Barometer from 30, 05 to 29,7%.
Wind S. and 3.- Generally cloudy, rain at
times.
Tuesday, 25 -Thermometer from 36 to 44.
Barometer from 30, 07 to 29,82.
Wind S, b. E. 14.---Generally cloudy. A fine
halo formed in the evening about 9.

Rain fallen,425 of an inch.
Wednesday, 26-Thermometer from 38 to 47.
Barometer from 29, 62 to 29, 82.
Wind S. W. 3 and 1.-Cloudy.
Rain fallen,175 of an inch.
Edmonton, Middlesex.

JOHN ADAMS.

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Travels in the North of Germany, describing the present state of the Social and Political Institutions; the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Education, Arts, and Manners, in that Country, particularly in the Kingdom of Hannover. By Thomas Hodgskin, Esq. Edinburgh and London, 1820, 8vo. 2 vols.

nature led to this melancholy and me- These will be the themes of generamorable event, and no pain or suffering tions yet unborn; and among the most vexed the passage of this virtuous glorious human memorials of our King, prince from time into eternity. The body it will be handed down to future times, and the mind were alike, in Heaven's that the energies of this land of freemercy, spared the pang of the dread dom, cherished by his paternal govern- In bringing our readers acquainted with change; and he whose life had made ment, produced not merely the brightest this publication, we are introducing to for him nothing to fear in death, gra- heroes, but the wisest philosophers, them one of the least assuming, while eously departed, as free from corporeal the greatest poets, the finest painters, it is one of the most sensible, useful, anguish, as his purity of soul would the most extraordinary discoveries, and intelligent books of travels which ader any circumstances have exempt- and the most beneficial inventions, that have recently issued from the press; cxed him from the terrors of conscience. ever distinguished the annals of man-cellent as many of the productions of God blessed him with the latter end of that kind have been, during the last righteousness-he was a good man twenty years. The fruit of three years' and-he died in peace. residence, and of pedestrian excursions over all the northern German Provinces, Mr. Hodgskin has given us information on most subjects, which has heretofore escaped the more rapid and stylish traveller: he has mixed with society, and sifted opinions not generally found among the labours of tourists; he has rapidly sketched or passed over topics familiar to the public, and dwelt upon such as presented novelty in themselves, or the appearance of novelty from the relative situation of the writer. By these means he has furnished us with a book, copious without being tedious, and replete with solid instruction, without wanting the charm of amusement. own feelings and thoughts bespeak an observant, acute, and candid mind; and, if we differ from him in some cases, it is always as with a person Acknowledging that our loss Acknowledging that our loss was of masculine understanding and good attended with many alleviations; bowing sense, whom we consider to be wrong, in all humility to that Divine Providence but acknowledge to be impartial and which, in inflicting the stroke deprived it well-meaning. Perhaps there is a of its sting;-yet, grateful for the mea- little too much display of generalizsures to which our beloved sovereigning reflections; but the nature of the devoted his life, and deeply and sin- task supplies a better excuse for this cerely lamenting for his death, we close than can usually be urged in behalf

When a nation is thus elevated, when the state of society is thus improved, It is not for a work like this to enter when the well-being of millions is thus pon the wide field over which a retro- augmented, and when, as it were, the pect of sixty years would travel. It is sphere of creation is exalted and enot for us to speak of those great poli-larged by the successful cultivation of tral agitations which have convulsed all that is elegant in the fine, solid in and overthrown, and reconstructed the the useful, and ennobling in the higher nations of the earth during that period: pursuits of intellect, it needs not to say or of the personal and kingly course of how much is due to himn in whom the conduct by which our late Ruler ren- supreme authority is vested: how much dered this country so conspicuous in is due to our lamented King, may be be awful struggles. Suffice it to say, that read in the many and prosperous Instituhe brightest pattern to which a people tions of which he was the founder or uld look for every sound principle in munificent patron, for the promotion of eory, and for every moral duty in learning, the acquisition of scientific practice, existed for more than half knowledge, the diffusion of general entury in the head encircled with the instruction, the perfection of the ornaritish diadem, and in the heart and mental arts, and the completion of Land which beat beneath the external every purpose calculated to further the plendours of royalty and wielded the interests of humanity here, or secure ceptre of almost unlimited power! its happiness hereafter. bat ere yet" Goodness and He fill up te monument," it behoves us to pay a bute to that softer and more refined Sture of the Monarch's character which connects his reign with the litetre, the arts, and the sciences of the ge. In this respect an epocha has deed been created; and when the

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