We may say fearlessly, that this is a discovery of greater practicable importance than obtaining a footing on the Pole-or than many of the steps towards the discovery of he longitude, for which large sums have been paid, and arge sums are still annually expending;-and that it ould do honour to the present Lord High Admiral of ngland, if he would immediately order the experiment > be tried on some unemployed ship of his Majesty's avy, and bestow on Mr. Watson the reward which the it of such an experiment should prove him really to eserve. Scientific Notices. mprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve nents in Science or Art; including, occasionally, ular Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phi: sophical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mineralogical henomena, or singular Facts in Natural History; Jegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c. ETCHES OF THE ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, tapanied with Sketches of a New Theory of the Earth. By J. L. E. W. SHECUT.-Charleston, 1826. Mr. Webster has ascertained upwards of 80 species, and Biographical Notices. THE LATE SIR NEIL CAMPBELL. must rise by his merit." In North America, the remains of marine animals, in the soil and rocks adjacent to the lakes, are numerous. The following particulars of the public life of the late They abound in the greater part of the distance from Lake Governor-in-Chief will be read at this moment with inErie, through the counties of Niagara, Gennessee, Ontario, terest: His Excellency commenced his career in the Seneca, Cayuga Onondago. They exist, too, in the coun- 6th West India Regiment, to which he was appointed ties of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Madison, Essex, Ensign on the 2d of April, 1797, and was soon after proOneida, Montgomery, Washington, Chenango, and vamoted to a Lieutenancy in the 57th regiment. After servrious others. The rocky stratum in the county of Ontario,ing three years in the West Indies, he returned to England. is filled with organic remains; these are mostly madre- and in 1801 obtained a company in the 95th regiment of pores of fantastic forms, differing from any at present Foot. About this time his abilities began to attract the found growing in the ocean. Along the Illinois, in its notice of his superior officers, and after having been some whole course from Chicago, near Lake Michigan, to the time at the Military College, he was appointed AssistantMississippi, organic remains of molluscas, and other un- Quarter-master-General to the Southern District, in which sin-known animals, are contained in the flinty masses, as he remained until promoted to a Majority in the 43d reginoticed by that enterprising officer, Major Long, of the ment, in January, 1805; from which he was afterwards corps of Engineers. In the limestone around St. Louis, removed to the 54th Foot. In August, 1806, he was ap and down the Mississippi to St. Genevieve, and beyond, pointed Deputy- Adjutant-General to the Forces in the abundance of shells and madrepores have been found. Windward and Leeward Islands, with the rank of Lieut.Dr. Drake has detected similar organic remains in the Colonel. He served in the several expeditions against limestone surrounding Cincinnati; they consist of various Martinique, Guadaloupe, &c. in 1809-10.-The following species of marine shells, madrepores, and tubipores. In extract from Major-General Maitland's despatch, dated the rocky masses near Kingsbury, in the state of New York, April 18, 1809, will show how highly Lieutenant-Colonel in Cherry Valley, at Heleberg, in Coeyman's Patent, and Campbell's services were appreciated: Lieut..Colonel the region watered by the Walkill, the quarries of King-Campbell has been always forward; he is an officer who ston, and various other places in the state, peculiar mad. repores, corallines, and numerous species of marine shells, are abundant.-(Mitchill.) long known to exist in South Carolina; they are of a cirAn extensive stratum of fossil oyster shells has been cular form, and of a diameter of seven or eight inches; they are thick and heavy, dissimilar from any shells which are found on our sea shores. They extend from Nelson's Ferry, in the upper part of the district of Charleston, in a south-westwardly course nearly parallel with the sea, towards the Three Runs on Savannah River, and are probably connected with those which Mr. Bartram describes as being fifteen miles below Silver Bluff, on the Georgia side.-Drayton, Ramsay.) Various strata of marine shells have been found in digging wells, &c. in the district of Charleston. In some places, strata of shells, so agglutinated with marl and sand as to appear like stone, have been discovered at a depth of fifteen feet below the surface of the earth. In Mr. Longstreet's experiment, that of boring for water, on a lot in Archdale-street, marine shells were discovered at a depth of 17 feet below the surface; and again, another stratum at a depth of 49 feet! (Ramsay.) On boring for water on the square partly occupied by the Poor-House, the commissioners discovered a stratum of marine shells between 18 and 20 feet below the surface; again, another stratum 35 feet; a third stra tum 43 to 46 feet below the surface; and lastly, at the amazing depth of 314 feet 3 inches to 317 feet 2 inches, a stratum of shells, marl, sand, and clay, and some thick solid marine shells broken.-(Moser.) is is an interesting production, although it is chiefly tpiled from other works. The writer has been great pains to collect materials for his purpose, I he has brought together a valuable accumulaa of facts. We shall select a few chapters or sages, which we are confident will interest our iders. Remains. 'roofs of the Universality of certain Fossil Organic a he rocks of Judea are, in many places, covered with chalky substance, in which is enclosed a great variety tells and corals. The greatest part of Mount Carmel, those of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, are overspread with ite chalky stratum. In Mount Carmel are gathered My stones, which, being in the form of olives, melons, bes, and other fruit, are imposed upon pilgrims, not :fas those fruits petrified, but as antidotes against several es-Maundrel.) he mountains and quarries of Europe afford numerous imens of primitive petrifactions of the first class. Fitzerland is remarkable for the petrifactions contained fer mountains, and repositories; petrified fish, of tus kinds, are found imbedded in them. Mount Pein Lucerne, supports an entire rock of petrified shells ceanic origin. There are rocks of this kind in all the mountains on continents, in the Pyrenean mountains, those of China and Peru. We find the same distion in all countries where there are high mountains, gh they are more remarkable in some parts than in We almost everywhere find upon the declivities wuntains, sea shells, madrepores, and corals petrified, still adhering to the rocks. The mountains of Pisa in botany, are covered with oyster shells to an extent of two ree miles. Fueille describes the mountains of Peru resenting the same phenomenon, which has been also wered in the country of the Acaoukas of Mississippi, miles from the sea shore. In France, about 60 leagues Bourdeaux, in the parish of St. Croix du Mont, there atratum of stone covered by a bed of oyster shells ty or twenty-five feet thick, and extending upwards sea shells. The state of Georgia is said to be very rich in rare fossil "On the south bank of Savannah River, near the place called White Bluff, about a hundred miles on a straight line from the sea shore, the shell banks make their first appearance, and run a course south-west. These shells occur in different parts of the ridge of the land in which they are imbedded, to a distance of forty miles. Accord ing to General Merriweather, not only the oyster shell is found, but clam shells, and a scalloped shell nearly similar to the clam. The General thinks that he has seen some of them large enough to contain the foot of a common man. At some distance above this ridge, there are several quarries of a kind of siliceous stone, which has a number of all kinds of shells intermingled and dispersed through it; these are petrified and hard as flint, are wrought into mill stones, and are considered as a good substitue for French Bation of stone five or six feet thick. In this, the inha- found many echinites of a flat form, rather larger than a this have hewn out a chapel 15 feet high, in which they Spanish dollar; they are converted into flint, and are a brate mass. The shells are united in the bank by a sand, species of the scutella family. Ellicot's Journal contains th, being mixed and petrified with them, at present accounts of the limestone rocks and fossils of the Apalaas but one common rock. About half a league from chy, Chatahouche and Flint Rivers. It is composed, in ankfort, on the other side of the Main, there is a moun- many places, of broken shells, and filled with petrifactions. called Saxenhausen, whence stones are dug; the In Alabama, on the Tombigbee River, fossil shells of joe substance of which is composed of small petrified bivalve molluscas, of sea urchins and radiary animals, are s; they are united by a fine sand, which forms a very found; and fifteen or twenty feet below the surface, is a stone, of which the strong walls of that beautiful city stratum where wood is found, of different kinds, partly debuilt. At Vaquine, a small town in Provence, we find cayed. Again, beneath this and a concomitant body of her mountain full of sea shells and large oysters, some clay and linestone, is a substance resembling the grass of hich are still alive. The fields adjacent to Havre de the margin of the ocean, accompanied by numberless mae are full of oyster shells, which are also to be metrine shells.-(Mitchill.) in a great many parts of France - De Mallet.) The following observation also, which occurs in a dewarmly: Lieut.-Colonel Campbell merits my warmest spatch from Major-General Harcourt to Sir G. Beckwith on the capture of Guadaloupe, in 1810, speaks more acknowledgments for his zealous services, which have been unremitting; and particularly for his exertions and able assistance in the affair of the 3d."-Lieut.-Colonel Campbell having returned to England in 1810, proceeded to the Peninsula, then the seat of war, having previously resigned his situation as Deputy-Adjutant-General in the West Indies. In April, 1811, he was appointed Colonel of the 16th Portuguese Infantry, and was engaged in the military operations of that period, particularly at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Burgos, and at the battle of Salamanca. On these occasions the Duke of Wellington made honourable mention of his name, in his despatches of the 20th January and 21st September, 1812. On the retreat of the British army, in 1813. Colonel Campbell, in consequence of severe illness, returned to England. In February, 1813, he joined Earl Catheart, at the head-quarters of the Emperor of Russia, in Poland. Here he was employed, along with Sir Robert Wilson and Colonel Howe, in reporting on the force and military operations of the different corps of the Russian army. His eminent services while in this station are known to all Europe. On the 24th March, 1814, he was severely wounded at Fere Champenoise, as appears from the following despatch from Lord Burghersh, dated March 26th, 1814:-" It is with the greatest regret that I have to announce to your Lordship that Colonel Campbell was yesterday most severely wounded by a Cossack. Colonel Compbell, continuing that gallant distinguished course which has ever marked his military career, had charged with the first cavalry which penetrated the French masses. The Cossacks, who canue to support this cavalry, mistook him for a French officer, and struck him to the ground. -In June, 1814, he was gazetted Colonel of the British army, and subsequently received five different orders from the crowned heads of Europe, and Knighthood from his own sovereign. After the campaign of 1815, in which he was found at his post, Colonel Campbell retired to private life, covered with honours. On the 27th of May, 1825, Colonel Campbell was appointed a Major-General; and on the 18th of April, 1826, on the lamented demise of General Turner being known, was commissioned as Goon the 22d of August following. handred fathoms, and is again covered by another burrs. In a spring near the high soals of Apalachy, are vernor-in-Chief of Sierra Leone. He arrived at the Cojony Doubtless these are a continuation of the stratum men gnon by M. De France. In the south of England, tioned in the preceding paragragh. the environs of Paris, numerous deposits of marine ls have been discovered by Cuvier, Brongniart, and at (To be continued.) 5th, Very stormy during the night. 6th,-Quarter-past three p.m. very stormy, hail, and rain, 8th,-Severe gale during night, with heavy rain. Poetry. TO THE YEAR 1827. Ah! speed thee on, departing year. And lengthened time but steals Ah! speed thee on; the power, if mine, Ah! speed thee on; and though be thine Yet is a light around thee spread, Ah! speed thee on; a voice is thine, The shaft of death!-and many a dream Heaven's whisperings blest, and all divine. Liverpool. ON A DEAD FRIEND. Oh! lasting will thy slumber be, The once proud form that now I see, Thou may'st be happy, yet, for me, And in joy's hour would speak G. Those eyes which glow'd of late with light, Within is darkness too: All, save the truly pure and bright, May death claim as his due: It seeks a better world than this. Do fade in autumn's sway, The flowers by spring's soft breathing's made, The mower cuts the waving blade In its green pride away, It may be without sigh; Like thine from me it fly, Whose shadow's in the wave: SONNET. FROM BARRUFALDI. Stern Winter knocks at dying Autumn's gate As wave to wave succeeds, Time's mighty tide No. VII.-CONTINUED. SPECIMENS OF THE ELDER POETS. BY PERCIVAL MELBOURNE. SIR WALTER RALEGH. In plains and groves, or hills and dales, There shall you see the Nymphs at play; The birds, with heavenly tuned throats, Ten thousand glow-worms shall attend, Your lodging with most majesty. Then in mine arms I will enclose THE SHEPHERD TO THE FLOWERS Sweet violets, Love's paradise, that spread Your gracious odours, which you couched bear Within your paly faces, Upon the gentle wing of some calm breathing wind, If by the favour of propitious stars you gain And when her warmth your moisture forth doth west, You pretty daughters of the earth and sun, With mild and seemly breathing straight display My bitter sighs, that have my heart undone! Vermilion roses, that with new days rise, Display your crimson folds fresh looking fair, The rich adorned rays of roseate rising morn! Do pluck your purse, ere Phoebus view the land, SIR WALTER RALEGH, THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS DEATH. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days! But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust! THE DELIVERANCE OF VIENNA. AN ODE. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF VINCENZIO DA FILICAIA. BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. [From the Winter's Wreath.] The chords, the sacred chords of gold, And frame a sparkling wreath of joyous songs Who marshals for the fight Of unbelieving Thrace, And turned their rage to fear, their pride to shame. He looked in wrath from high Upon their vast array; And, in the twinkling of an eye, Tambour, and trump, and battle-cry, And steeds, and turbaned infantry Passed like a dream away. Such power defends the mansions of the just; But, like a city without walls, The grandeur of the mortal falls, Who glories in his strength, and makes not God his trust. The proud blasphemers thought all earth their own; The princedoms of Almayne Shall wear the Phrygian chain; 1 humbler waves shall vassal Tiber roll; As the curling smoke wreaths fly Passed away each swelling boast The flock so dearly bought, and loved so well. Of guilty pride and power Full on the circumcised Thy vengeance fell. From wood and cavern thronged to Thy great feast. Riding on storms and wrapped in deepest night. And quaked with mystic awe : The proud Sultana of the Straights bowed down The miscreants, as they raised their eyes, Saw each portentous star, Sabre, and targe, and spear. As his who, scared in feverish sleep Then backward falls again. Be all the glory to Thy name divine! The swords were ours; the arm, O Lord, was Thine. And taught Byzantium's sullen lords to fear, In a triumphant shout, And call all ages and all lands to hear. There, where in mosque the tyrants met, Unholy summons pealed,- The air, the earth, the seas: The day shines forth with livelier beam, The caves, the woods, the rocks, repeat the sound, But if Thy rescued church may dare Still Thy servants groan in chains, Still the race which hates Thee reigns; Part the living from the dead; Join the members to the head; Snatch Thine own sheep from yon fell monster's hold: Let one kind Shepherd rule one undivided fold. He is the victor, only he, Who reaps the fruits of victory; With wrecks and Moslem slain. Shall the twice vanquished foe Shall Europe's sword be hung to rust in peace? Of the triumphant Franks, Bear swift deliverance to the shrines of Greece; The avenging plagues of Western fire and steel. Of fierce pursuit, from Ister's shore, The Lord of Hosts asserts His old renown, He rushes on His prey: Till, with the terrors of the wond'rous theme, And close my dazzled eye, and rest my wearied wing. HOME TRUTHS. [From the Liverpool Mercury, 20th September, 1811.] Heav'ns! what a change the last twelve months have made! A sad, sad change in credit and in trade; Where'er we turn, some melancholy sign Beside the dock, obstructive of the way, Tyrant ambition, and accurst deerees, And its own wants suppresses, or supplies. O'eraw'd by terror, or by arms subdued, To 'Change, indeed, our merchants still repair, They still may make :-they may exchange a bow; What John-street meeting for the following day; Visit the banks,-there the same scene appears; ROSCOE retires, and changes, in retreat, The peat he clears away, you may depend, But happy he, who, for the peaceful shade, The countless ills which busy life beset; The hapless clerk, no longer now employ'd, "Trimm'd at the skirts and bound, where somewhat torn, "No one will know this waistcoat has been worn; In former times-what happy times they were! When every thing was going smooth and fair, When the blest stream of confidence ran high, And all who sought, received a full supply, Ere yet the rich had selfishly engross'd All business from the poor, who want it most, But every one impartial credit got, He who had capital, and who had not. In times when cash was plenty, such as these, A person could do business with such ease: Some London friend provided, no delay, No trouble then in payments, draw away. "Sir, here's a bill of parcels"-on demand The ready draft on London was at hand. "Well, Šir, about those rums you wish'd to sell, "I have resolved to take them."—" Very well." "The mode of payment, Sir, is understood 66 My draft on London."-"Good, Sir, very good." From hand to hand we bought and sold, we drew, Then sold and bought, and bought and sold anew; The wheel went round, and that was all our care, And all was credit, ****** and ******* In those blest times, when credit ran so high, These were the times, and times like these once more, Fusbos The Drama. BOMBASTES FURIOSO! DRAMATIS PERSONA. AMEN. Artaxominous............King of Utopia. ACT FIRST. SCENE FIRST Enter FUSBOS. Kneels to the King. King. Rise, learned Fusbos, rise, my friend, and know, We are but middling; that is, but so so. Fusbos. Only so so. Oh! monstrous, doleful thing; King. Nor mullygrubs, nor devils blue are here, King. Last night, as undisturb'd by state affairs, Fusbos. General Bombastes, whose resistless force, Bomb. [to his Army.] Meet me this evening at the I'll bring you pay; you see I'm busy now. Worn by their chief, I as a trophy bring: I knock'd him down, then snatch'd it from his fob; "Watch, watch," he cried, when I had done the job. "My watch is gone,” says he; says I,“ just so,” "Stop where you are, watches were made to go." King. For which we make you Duke of Strombolo. [Bombastes kneels to the King, who breaks a pipe over his head. Bomb. Honours so great have all my toils repaid; Now shall our farmers gather in their crops, King. I shall smoke short cut, you smoke what you The King, seated at a table; a bowl, tobacco-box, glasses, Short cut or long, to me is all the same. decanters, pipes, &c. Trio, "TEKELI." Courtiers attending. 1st Courtier. What will your Majesty please to wear: Or blue, or green, red, white, or brown? 2d Court. D'ye chose to look at the bill of fare? King. Get out of my sight, or I'll knock you down. 2d Court. Here is soup, fish, or goose, or duck, or fowl, or pigeon, pig, or hare; King. Thanks, generous friends; now list whilst I impart Or a full glass in that there bowl remains, you an equal portion shall belong: 1st Court. Or blue, or green, or red, or black, or white, You know you have not got a singing face; or brown? What will your Majesty please to wear; Or blue, or green, or red, or black, or white, or brown? 2d Court. D'ye choose to look at the bill of fare? King. Get of my sight, or I'll knock you down, [Excunt Courtiers. Here Nature, smiling, gave the winning grace. Song, BOMBASTES. Hope told a flattering tale, That love and pots of ale, In peace, would keep us warm ; The King, having evinced strong emotions during the Song, appears in a dejected state. Par. What ails my Liege? oh! why that look so sad? King. I'm in love; I scorch, I freeze, I'm ad. h! tell me Fusbos, first and best of friends, ou who've got wisdom at your finger ends, hall it be so, or shall it not be so? all I my Griskanissa's charms forego; ompel her to give up the regal chair, ad place the rosy Distaffina there? I such a case what course should I pursue? = love my Queen, and Distaffina too. I'll bet you a wager, No volunteer Major At neat prittle prattle. How I could ruminate, Though in a gloomy state, For to illuminate My turtle dove: But words are mere playthings, They cannot half say things She's young and she's tender; From the top to the toe: Eyes like stars glittering, Ne'er were made so. Nose like a jolly tower By the sea side: Then haste, O ye days and nights, SCENE THIRD. SCENE, Distaffina's Appartment. Enter DISTAFFINA, Dist. This morn, as sleeping in my bed I lay, I dreamt, and morning dreams come true, they say; [Enter King. I dreamt, a cunning man my fortune told, King. He's but a General, damsel; I'm a King. What a fool was I, To be cozen'd by A fellow not worth a penny, O. When rich ones came, And ask'd the same, For I'd offers from ever so many, O. But I'll darn my hose, Look out for beaux, And quickly get a new lover, O. So sing rum ti tum, And come, lads, come, Then a fig for Æneas, the rover, O. King. So Orpheus sang of old, or poets lie, O'er alehouse hung, shall change its head for thine; And none presume to write but in thy praise. Dist. [opens a closet.] And may I then, without offending, crave My love to taste of this, the best I have. King. Where it the vilest liquor upon earth, Thy touch would render it of matchless worth; Dear shall the gift be held, that comes from you, Best proof of love [drinks] 'tis full proof whiskey, too; Through all my veins I feel the genial glow; It warms my soul Bomb. [without.] Ho! Distaffina, ho! Dist..........................O yes, 'tis what's his name, The General: send him packing as he came. King, And is it he? and does he hither come? Ah, me! my guilty conscience strikes me dumb; Where shall I go; say whither shall I fly? Hide me, oh! hide me from his injur'd eye. Dist. Why sure, you're not alarmed at such a thing? He's but a General, you're a King! [King secretes himself in a closet. Enter BOMBASTES, Bomb. Lov'd Distaffina, now, by my scars, I vow ; (Scars got, I havn't time to tell you how ;) By all the risks my fearless heart hath run, Risks of all shapes, from bludgeon, sword, or gun, Steel traps, the patrole, bailiffs, shrew, and dun; By the great bunch of laurels on my brow, Ne'er did thy charms exceed their present glow. Oh! let me greet thee with a loving kissHell and the devil! say whose hat is this! King. Here on my knees, those knees which ne'er till [Seeing the King's hat, which he had thrown down when now, To men, or maids, in suppliance bent, I vow King ...............Are then my wishes crown'd? Song, DISTAFFina. At her palace gate, A darning a hole in her stocking, 0: She sung as she drew The worsted through, While her foot was the cradle rocking, O. For a babe she had, By a soldier lad, Tho' history passes it over, O. You tell-tale brat, I've been a flat, kneeling to Distuffina. Dist. Why, bless your silly brains, that's not a hat. Bomb. No hat? Dist...................Suppose it is, why what of that? A hat can do no harm without a head. Bomb. Whoe'er it fits, this hour I doom him dead; Alive from hence the catiff shall not stir : [Discovers the King. Your most obedient humble servant, Sir. King............ Indeed I hardly know. Through lane or street, with lawless passion rove, But give to Griskanissa all my love. Bomb. Ho! ho! I'll love no more; let him who can, the maid who fancies every man. |