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ith so much reserve, and listened with so marked an at- arrived from travels through Germany, Denmark, and and her charming daughter arrived, we were preparing to tion, that it needed not the aid of his bright reputation Sweden. He congratulated me on a circumstance at once hear the reading of M. de Longchamps' work. These make him cherished and beloved by all who had inter-so useful and agreeable. “Yes, doubtless,” said I, “when ladies requested to be allowed to form part of the learned with him. With what an exquisite simplicity did one is not forced to travel, for then it is not so pleasant, Areopagus, and the author was soon surrounded by a ot say to Erskine, who was giving us a short account and causes so much chagrin, that little room is left for brilliant circle. He then read his clever comedy in one the trial of Thomas Paine, whom he unsuccessfully de- observation."—" At your age,” he replied, "such lessons act, which, a few days after, was performed with merited aded, “Ah!” said he, "I by rights should have been are comparatively easy; by and by they would be more se- success on the stage. He was congratulated both on the awyer. Such was the wish of my family. I owe it vere, but I hope you will never have any thing more to do choice of his subject and the beauty of his verse. M. de ly to fortune, and partly to my own liking, that I am with them again." In saying these words, he took me by la Harpe, usually a severe judge, assured the author that dier; but one is so little the master of the part he is the hand, and accompanied them with such a look of be- the reader afforded him much pleasure. He was comin the world, that it is only at the end of our career nevolence, that I at once felt how much he deserved to be menting very judiciously on the greater or less degree of we can really blame, or applaud, the choice we made loved as well as admired. ،، You must come with your merit of some scenes, when Abraham, the dancing-master, commencement." M. de la Harpe was seated next fair friend to England," he resumed, "when she visits us, par excellence, arrived at three o'clock to give his lesson. askine, and had every facility of questioning and re- as she has promised to do; and I shall be happy to show Within a few days, Vestris had composed for the young ng to him. The distinguished lawyer, and the cele- you every thing we have worth seeing. You will not then Hortense Beauharnois a new gavotte, which bore her d writer, let fly at each other sallies of wit and elo- be a forced traveller, and that makes a material difference." One of the ladies played on the tambourine, the alee; and when, occasionally, M. de Narbonne attempt- "Ah! Sir, it was but just now that your friend, Mr. other danced with a shawl, throwing it into various folds, generalize the conversation, each made a point of Adair, taught me to feel so much respect for your coun- and both wheeled round their cavalier. Juliette was then ing to what he knew of the history of some of the try and your countrymen, that I cannot regard myself as a pupil of the dancing-master, and Lady Georgiana GorFa For instance, Moreau's retreat, Fox's addresses a stranger, either with you or him." Some of the com- don, whom Abraham likewise taught, already danced King for compelling Pitt to preserve peace, Ers-pany then rejoined us, and M. Moreau taking the arm of delightfully. It was proposed to postpone the lesson till speeches on the Jury Bill, Narbonne's Administra- | Mr. Fox, we returned slowly to the chateau. to-morrow; but the gentlemen begged that this might not La Harpe's Course of Literature, the praiseworthy Such were the first and few words which I exchanged be done, and even desired that the gavotte might be rewhich marked the public and private life of Montmo- with this celebrated man. Fox descended into the tomb peated in the saloon, that they might pass their opinion the valour of Junot, the charming poetry of Du- before I began to be a little spoken of in the world. I upon it. The ladies allowed themselves to be a little and Longchamps, were each, in turn, brought upon appeared before him as one of the least known of man- pressed on this point, because they had little expected such arpet, analyzed and applauded. And if it was pleas | kind. He was in the height of his glory, and I at the spectators. However, they would consent, they said, if or so many celebrated men to shine in the eyes of lowest pitch of my obscurity. My name, perhaps, did they had had a cavalier, who was indispensible, as the other, it was not the less gratifying to observe those not rest a whole day in his memory. I am happy, how. gavotte was arranged for three persons. k of approbation, which admiration and esteem drew | ever, that I had the good fortune to meet him, and con- | hindrance," said Espinchal, who danced then, as well as in favour of the charming woman whose attractive verse with him. There is a virtue in the look of such a he has since bravely fought, "if that be your only obnce had drawn around her so great an assemblage of man, and a powerful charm is attached to its recollection. jection, it can be easily obviated; and if you will permit On entering the saloon, we found there M. M. de Lon-me, ladies, I will try to recollect it, having seen it danced dee was just being served, when we heard the tram-guerue and Chazet, who had just arrived. As soon as at Madame Campan's, at St. Germains', at the ball which of horses in the court-yard, and presently Eugene they were presented, M. de Lamoignon asked Madame followed the representation of Atalie. There was then no harnois, and his two friends, Philippe de Segur and Recamier to sing. She sat down to her harp, and accom- possible objection. The want of a band was supplied by olite d'Espinchal, were announced. Young and spi-panied herself in Plantade's pretty romance, "Le bien Abraham with a kit which he drew from his pocket; and illustrious not only on account of his own glory, but aimez, ô ma chere Zelie." Juliette was so beautiful, her never, perhaps, did two more celestial creatures move with at of his father-in-law, Eugene was not in the least voice was so sweet, and Manderman had made her so greater precision of step, and gracefulness of attitude. Aicated with so great a share of success. You might complete a musician, that the whole company was in rap- They reminded me of the most elegant of the female ly recognise, under the elegant uniform of a Colonel des ture at hearing her. Felix de Longuerue took advantage figures on the Herculaneum vases. Juliette executed her les of the Guard, the same young man who, but a few of this moment of ecstacy, to make a drawing of Mr. Fox, part with all the lightness of a nymph, raising the tambefore, was as good a son as he was afterwards a sol-whose marked features and expressive countenance were bourine above her head at every bound; and the graces of who supported his mother and sister by the fruit of easily caught. He finished his sketch before the romance Lady Georgiana's beautiful form were heightened by her bour as a journeyman joiner at Bordeaux,-who, in was concluded, and we were all struck with the resem- management of the shawl, the waving folds and transpat lapse of time, had been transported from the plains | blance. rent gauze of which, as she alternately furled and unnquered Italy, to the feet of the pyramids of Egypt, "In such agreeable company, time passes rapidly." furled it, onstituted the adopted son of him whom France called Segur, who made this remark, added, that the First "Now half concealed, now half unveiled her charms," viour, and all Europe pronounced a hero. Advanc- Consul's carriages had been in waiting for an hour in They were praised and applauded with all the enthu ith an unassuming air to Madame Recamier, he the avenue. The party then broke up; Fox and his siasm of delight. This pleasant and unexpected ballet ed her to allow him to express his regret at arriving friend took leave of La belle Chatalaine, soliciting per- being over, the company gradually left Clichy. The le to an entertainment to which it had given him so mission to repeat their visit, a favour which she granted Duchess of Gordon took Juliette and myself in her carriage, pleasure to be invited. But he added, "that hav-as those do who know how to receive one. Eugene and to the Bois de Boulogne; and these short moments sufbeen detained by the First Consul in the details of Segur followed them, but d'Espinchal remained with us; ficed to make us acquainted with the real merit of Lady e service, he had been but that moment able to make and it may be taken for granted, that, after their depar- Georgiana. Her reflections and judicious observations apscape," and appealed, for the confirmation of this ture, our laudatory remarks on such interesting travellers peared to belong to an understanding not common at her gy, to Segur and Espinchal, who, he said, had been were not soon exhausted. We were still talking about years; and her criticisms bore the stamp of the most g for him upwards of two hours in the court of the them, when the Duchess of Gordon, and her daughter, ssel. Then, going up to Mr. Fox, "I flatter my-Lady Georgiana, now Duchess of Bedford, were announced. said he, "I shall shortly be enabled to make some This afforded another apportunity of doing honour to the ds to you, Sir, for I am commissioned by my mother merit of the English who were then visiting France. The company you to Malmaison, and have preceded Duchess of Gordon was quite natural and affable. But by a few minutes the carriages that are to conduct some mistakes which she made as to the meaning of certhither, with your friends, as soon as you can tear tain French words contributed as much to her fame, in tself from the fascinations with which I see you are Paris, as did her high rank and superior accomplishments. Feb. e surrounded. I shall have much pleasure in being More graces and more beauty were never united in the guide." He then introduced Segur and Espinchal same person than in Lady Georgiana Gordon. It will be travellers, and shaking hands with the friends he readily be owned, that it required no small share of perin the company, sat down to the table like a soldier sonal attractions to shine as this lady did in the company astomed to hasty repasts, of which the rapid meals of of Madame Recamier, who was the most celebrated beauty First Consul did not allow him to forget the practice. of Paris. But she had so charming and so virginale an few moments after, we rose from breakfast, and expression, and there was so much sweetness in the counauped according to choice or accident, proceeded to take tenance, and so much gracefulness in the deportment of Falk in the park. Juliette took my arm, and we were this belle Anglaise, that the prize of beauty seemed, in the m left alone with Fox. She again introduced me to opinion of almost every beholder, equally due to each of m as a friend of her infancy; who, she aded, had just these two lovely women. At the moment the Duchess

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Biograhical Notices.

ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD JOHN STRACHAN.

This gallant officer, who departed this life, at his hou in Bryanstone-square, on the 3d instant, after a shonb severe illness, was the son of Lieutenant Patrick Stracta and nephew of Captain John Strachan, both of the rop navy, the fifth Baronet of that name, on whose dem Dec. 28, 1777, he succeeded to the Baronetage. Richard Strachan was born in Devonshire, Oct. 27, 1764 and at a very early period entered the navy. His pre tion to the rank of Lieutenant was on board the Act of 44 guns, from which he became third Lieutenant the Hero, 74, one of Commodore Johnson's squadra the affair of Porto Praya. He afterwards belonged to Magnanime, 64, and then to the Superb, 74, the f ship of Sir E. Hughes, who promoted him, in 173, the rank of Commander in the Lizard sloop, at Be and further, to the Naiad frigate, captured fr French. His commission as Captain was dated Apri Richard Strachan was appointed Captain of the Ve 1783. frigate, which ship was ordered to convey the brother the present Lord Cathcart on an embassy to China. Excellency was in a bad state of health on his embarka at Portsmouth; it continued daily growing worse, and ing the stay of Sir Richard Strachan in India, he gr died on the Vestal's arrival in the Straits of Banca. Da distinguished himself. In November, 1791, while cr ing off the coast of Malabar, in the Phoenix frigate fell in with La Resolve, of 46 guns, convoying two count ships to Mangalore, supposed to be laden with stores Tippoo Saib. Sir R. Strachan determined to search vessels, which was resisted by the French Captain, 2 action accordingly commenced. killed, and eleven wounded-and La Resolve, twenty killed, and forty-six wounded, when the latter struck colours, and was searched accordingly, but there wa thing found to justify her detention.

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knife, the patient being so far from suffering in this part of the operation, that, frequently, she is not aware that it has been done. The vessel manifesting itself, we take a short incurvated probe, which we slide beneath it at the lower extremity of the incision; afterwards, with a wellsharpened lancet, laying open the vein to the extent of about a line, that is, one-eighth of an inch; afterwards intromitting, cautiously, at this orifice the tubule of the syringe, so as to satisfy yourselves that, when you operate, TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD. the entrance will be easy; at this time, perhaps, a little blood oozes out.-This preparation made, we bind up the (From Dr. Blundell's Lectures.) arm of the person who is to yield the supply of blood, laying open the vein in the usual manner, but making the That the blood of one animal may be substituted for orifice rather free. In a conical tumbler, of large diamethe blood of another animal of the same species, is a printer, the blood may be conveniently gathered; and into the ciple which has been placed beyond the shadow of a doubt. syringe, previously washed and chilled by transmission of Repeatedly, as others have done before me, I have drained water milk-warm, the blood is to be absorbed, as demon. the dog till it lay in a state of apparent death, the blood ceas- strated, from the point of the tumbler through this long ing to issue even from a tubule inserted into the carotid to- tubule, in such manner that, although the whole of the wards the heart, the circulation, therefore, being entirely blood is not to be taken up lest the air should be drawn in, arrested. The animal being, in this condition, to all appear not more than a dessert spoonful is to be allowed to accu. ance dead, I have transfused from another dog, and found, mulate at once in the bottom of the vessel; in truth, it is where the operation has been well performed, that the dog, blood should collect. This tubule should be long enough not in the glass, but the barrel of the syringe, that the to all appearance irrecoverable, has soon afterwards arisen from the table, as if it had experienced a resuscitation to throw the barrel of the syringe above and beyond the from the dead. It is true, indeed, that for two or three brim of the tumbler, so that it may be completely out of days a little cachexia, or ill-health, has hung about it; the way. That it may enter the vein more easily, the end but, in the course of a few days more, the animal has of the tubule should be bevelled, like the tea-pot spout. seemed to recover itself completely, becoming as well as this manner, holding the syringe vertically with the tubule Two ounces of blood from the arm being absorbed in above, and the handle of the piston below, we slowly urge By many it has been imagined hitherto, that, in the the piston on ward, till, together with all air, about a desoperation of transfusion, the blood of one genus of animals sert spoonful of blood has been expelled; and then, closing may be indifferently substitutol for that of another genus the nozzle, by the apposition of the tip of the finger, lest -the blood of the sheep, for instance, for that of the dog; (the piston descending by its own gravity) fresh air should the blood of the calf for that of a man; a doctrine which be absorbed, we give the instrument the horizontal direcI had myself imbibed. Accordingly, in some of the first tion, and proceed to insinuate the blood into the vein. On experiments which were made, and which, as far as we approaching the arm of the patient, perhaps we find the can learn, were by no means very successful, the blood of orifice obscured by the blood: touch the vein with a sponge, the brute was substituted for that of the human body; and the aperture may be read as clearly as the letter of a but it was first suggested to me by one of my own esteemed and respected pupils, Dr. Leacock, that the blood of one where it lies across the probe, which will intercept a furAt this time an assistant may gently press the vein, genus of animals may not, with impunity, be substituted ther exudation; for the circulation is so low that it is indifferently for that of another genus. Draining dogs of easily arrested. These preliminaries premised, without their own blood, he supplied them from the sheep; and trepidation, with that calm and measured movement of found that, though the animal was resuscitated for a time, the mind and body, the result, not of mere animal spirits, the blood of the sheep circulating in the veins, and per- but of that confidence which arises from a mind well preforming the office of the canine, so that the dog was able pared, we proceed to deliver the blood, cautious not to into run about the room, yet, in the course of ten or twenty terpose unnecessary delay. For this purpose, the tubule hours, I speak from memory as to the term, the animal being insinuated into the vein, to the extent of half an invariably died. Read his inaugural dissertation, pub-inch towards the heart, it is our next office to infuse the lished at Edinburgh a few years ago; it is well worth at blood into the vessel, and very nice and critical is this point tentive perusal. Consentaneous experiments, to be found at large in the "Researches," I have myself made with of the operation. What the heart in women or men night the human blood. From five dogs I abstracted their own is in these cases, feeble as the limb which refuses to sustain bear, in a state of vigour, I know not; but reduced, as it blood, and, by means of a proper instrument, intromitted them, it cannot support a sudden influx of the blood. To the human blood in its place; of those dogs one died on infuse too slowly is an error, no doubt; for, lying in the the table; two or three lived for a few hours, then sink- syringe, the blood, every moment, is becoming more and ing t and some, surviving for four or five days, expired, more deteriorated; but, to inject too rapidly, is a still more after many cachetic symptoms. So that, it seems, from fatal error: gorge the cardiac cavities, and the patient may experiments of this sort, that the blood of one genus of perish as suddenly as if shot through the heart. With moanimals cannot, in large quantities, be substituted indiffe- derate velocity it is that the blood should be infused; and rently for the blood of another, without occasioning the most fatal results. Hence eminently arises a necessity for most cautiously, when the collapsion is great. In pres the use of the syringe, as this enables us, in human hæmor. sing forward the piston, from moment to moment, fix your rhages, to use the human blood; for, even though a horse eye on the countenance, and, if all is well, then proceed or a sheep were at hand in the chamber, it is very doubtful more boldly; but if the lip quiver, or the eye-lid flicker, or if there be restlessness or vomiting, (though these are not whether the blood of these animals would save a woman fatal symptoms,) yet it is better to suspend the operation sinking from bleeding, and I am sure it would be danger- until they subside, as, in the present state of our informa- During the suspension of hostilities that followed ous to try it. tion, there is good cause for alarm: and let me add, that, Treaty of Amiens, Sir Richard Strachan comman By a variety of experiments, I, long ago, satisfied my after waiting in this manner, we must not return to the in- Donegal, of 80 guns; and, on the renewal of the wa self, even previously to the publication of the cases already jection, until we have obtained a fresh supply of blood. stationed off Cadiz, to watch the French ships before the profession, that blood may be transmitted If the first two ounces load, it is better to wait a few mi- port. On the 25th of November, 1804, he captur through the syringe as through the heart, without becom nutes (say six or eight) before more is injected; but if Amphitrite, Spanish frigate, of 44 guns, from C ing unfit for the purposes of life. Deterioration it suffers, these first two ounces are well received by the system, we Teneriffe and the Havannah, with despatches; and it is true; but not such deterioration as may render it unfit proceed immediately to inject other two, afterwards wait- sequently commanded the Renown. In 1805, Sir B for the animal body. Several dogs I have drained so that ing for eight or ten minutes, till the whole have duly cir-Strachan was appointed one of the Colonels of the l they lay in a state of asphyxia, in truth, appearing to be culated over the body, and, in some measure, at least, Marines, and in July, to the Cæsar, of 80 guns, altogether dead. Dogs, thus prepared, I have replenished have renewed its vigour : under the extremes of weakness, detached squadron under his orders. On the ever by the use of the syringe, with blood from other dogs, and this caution becomes especially necessary. Sixteen ounces the 2d of November, off Ferrol, he fell in wit they have done as well as if transfusion had been performed of blood, for the female system, is a large aggregate quan- French line-of-battle ships, which had escaped free by means of the tube. tity; eight or ten are more sparing; four or five may, in glorious battle of Trafalgar, but it was not till day There are different ways in which transfusion may be delicate cases, turn the scale in our favour. If our object on the 4th, that the advanced frigates of Sir R performed; the operation may be executed by means of is simply to save life, the sinaller quantities must be in- Strachan's squadron could get within gunshot, whe well-constructed two-ounce syringe, air secure, made of jected; if to restore vigour, the larger. The entrance of half-past three the same afternoon, the whole of brass, tinned internally, not offensive with oil, of course a single bubble of air, though not fatal, is always to be destruck their colours, thus completing the destructi perfectly clean, and to be used in the following manner:precated. If the respiration be stopped, it is, I fear, in that fleet, in engaging which Nelson lost his valuable One or two bystanders (inales are preferable to females) vain, to transfuse. If respiration is at its last gasp, the On the 9th of November, Sir Richard Strachan was being in readiness to supply the requisite quantity of blood, hope is small; a sudden influx of two ounces would, I moted to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the Blue. the arm of the patient should be prepared as follows:- think, certainly destroy in these cases. taking a scalpel, at one cut, if tolerably dexterous, we lay bear, at proper intervals, doses of half an ounce, (if the Knight of the Bath, and, about the same period, he te Would the heart 29th of January, 1806, his late Majesty created him bare the bleeding vein, which opens on the eye under the respiration be steady,) we are almost certain of success. Iceived the thanks of both Houses of Parliament; he the

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On the commencement of the French war, in 173, R. Strachan was appointed to the Concorde, of and 257 men, when he joined the squadron of fr the French coast, under the orders of Sir John B. Ha On St. George's Day, 1793, being to the wes Guernsey, four French ships were observed state to sea, one of which, L'Engageante, after a mas rate resistance, in which she was strongly supported Resolve, which escaped, struck to Sir Richard S The prize mounted 38 guns, and had three hundred of whom between thirty and forty were killed and while the Concorde had but one killed, and v wounded.

Sir R. Strachan was soon afterwards appointed to Melampas, of 42 guns, and was placed under the of Commodore Sir William Sidney Smith, where he stroyed and captured a great number of the enemy's sels of various descriptions. When Sir Sidney S into the hands of the French, Sir R. Strachan t command of the Diamond frigate in his stead, ca on the same system of destruction to all ships meet with. In February, 1799, he was appointed Captain, of 74 guns, and assisted at the capture French squadron in the Mediterranean; he served st unfortunate expedition to Quiberon Bay and Ferm had afterwards the command of a small squadron # western coast of France.

wisted his flag on board the Cæsar, and proceeded to the and front of his offending-the gay and the parti-coloured is scarcely perceptible within the life of man; but, as far American coast in pursuit of a French squadron, under coif itself! How did he dwell upon each particular point as our limited observation will allow us to form an opihe orders of Admiral Villaumez, one of whose ships, a of seduction it afforded; its knots, its bows, the satin and nion, not less than an average period of two hundred years foundered in a hurricane, and another of the same the lace; then, after he had minutely dissected it, with can be allowed as the time of its coming to full growth, or Mee was driven on shore near the Chesapeake, and after-what of scorn and of contempt did he call the attention of fit for cutting. Its first discovery was by the carpenter on ards destroyed. the semi-serious auditory to consider it in the aggregate, board of one of Sir Walter Raleigh's vessels, when he put On the termination of this service, Sir Richard Strachan and as a matter of mere taste! With what bitterness of into some harbour in the island of Trinidad, in the year employed in the blockade of Rochfort, until the sneer did he enlarge upon its proportions and its form! 1595, who, having occasion to go on shore to cut some mer of 1809, when he was appointed to command the and, finally, with a voice of thunder, how did he shout pieces of timber, required for work to be done on the ship aval part of the expedition to the Island of Walcheren. out, Why, good woman, did you not choose something to which he belonged, brought on board a quantity of this On the 3d of July, 1810, Sir Richard Strachan was better worth being damned for ?' Then, after having wood, which, on being worked, from the raw state, exhited with a sword, and the freedom of the city of sufficiently exposed his rib and her ribands, how did he bited, to the astonishment of all who saw it, that beautiful don, which had been voted him for his capture of gently set his feelings on the Montagnes Russes' of natural variety of appearance which no ingenuity or art French fleet in 1805. On the 31st of July, 1810, he Charity's elevation, and slide down rapidly, but quietly. can equal. The first use to which mahogany was applied promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and on the from the height of his doctoral dignity to the plain of in England, arose from a circumstance purely accidental, of July, 1821, to that of Admiral. He was allowed a friendly and marital appeal!-and how did he, with and was appropriated to the making of a box for holding son of £1000 for his services. Sir Richard Strachan glistening eye and broken voice, with a look of honest candles. Doctor Gibbons, an eminent physician, in the ed, in 1812, Miss Louisa Dillon, by whom he has pride and of genuine love, redeem his previous harshness latter end of the 17th, or beginning of the 18th century, some children. by dilating upon her many domestic virtues, her conjugal had a brother, a West India captain, who brought over truth and womanly worth!-and with what unction did some planks of this wood as ballast, but was not aware of he give to the congregation in general, and his absolved its value. As the Doctor was then building a house in helpmate in particular, his benediction-urbi et orbi-for King-street, Covent-garden, his brother thought they there was his city and his world-the wife of his heart, and might be of service to him; but the carpenters finding the the children of his affection. In all that Rowland Hill wood too hard for their tools, they were laid aside for a urged from his pulpit, Christian zeal and Christian cha- time as useless. Soon after, Mrs. Gibbons, wanting a rity were apparent: not the charity of the mitre, which candle-box, the Doctor called on his cabinet maker to might not leave its eyry to mingle with the flock beneath, make one of some wood that lay in his garden. Wallasbut the homelier charity of man to man,-not confined to ton, the cabinet-maker, on cutting it up, also complained the frequenters of his Zoar alone, but extended to vice, that it was too hard: the Doctor said, he must get stronger and wretchedness, and infamy-to the felon and the pros- tools. The candle-box was, however, made, and highly titute; for the miserable and abased were his brethren, approved of, insomuch that the Doctor then insisted on and he was the disciple of a man of sorrows, and of one having a bureau made of the same wood, which was acacquainted with grief.'"-From the New Monthly Magazine.cordingly done; when the fine colour, beautiful polish, &c. were so pleasing, that it became an object of curiosity, and he invited all his friends to come and see it: among them was the Duchess of Buckingham. Her Grace begged some of the same wood from Doctor Gibbons, and employed Wallaston to make her a bureau also; on which, the fame of mahogany and Mr. Wallaston was much raised, and furniture of this sort soon became general. Thus, from a circumstance so trivial, has emanated a most extensive branch of commerce.-Honduras Almanack.

Miscellanics.

THE REV. ROWLAND HILL.

THE MAHOGANY TREE.

Rowland Hill was then (twenty years ago) much med by his numerous followers; for, although devoid ace in action, and his expressions homely, often 5to offend good taste, it was impossible not to believe g Sheridan's observation) but that his words came et from the heart.' They certainly were not allowed ol by the way; but rushed forth, like schoolboys confined, without rule or order, and with excessive Mr. There was also in the venerable preacher much high animal spirits of youth, and at times so great tion even of its levity, that he often seemed (without The mahogany tree cannot be excelled in magnificence ing figuratively) as if he would o'erleap the pulpit's and grandeur of appearance by any of the known producis, and carry conviction to his auditors by other force tions of the earth of its class; and, could the largest of the that of words. Rowland Hill was impartial in oak, which species is usually styled the king of the forest, sure-witness that horrific day that his Madam,' be exhibited in competition, it would dwindle to insignitermed his spouse, entered the church later than ficance in the comparison; the enormous size and height ample might warrant, having been detained by of the trunk, the uncommon spread of the branches, the faithless milliner in expectation of a new bonnet, space of ground occupied by the roots, altogether convey which she at length made her appearance as her lord to the mind the idea that it was designed by nature for ar on his way to the second lesson. With what the use of a more colossal proportion than the present: nity of manner did he prepare for his discourse! the ingenuity and perseverance of man has, however, obdid he, before he commenced his preachment, regard viated all the difficulties, and reduced the almost apparent ples mate with much of reproach; but more, much impossibility of appropriating to his use, a tree, which, of pay and of grieved affection! How awful were it would appear, has, by nature, been made of too great a jams, as he summoned all his energies to the task! size to be brought within his power. Commerce has also menacingly, yet how pathetically, did he, in self-made mahogany, from being an article scarcely known, donment and sorrow for female frailty, cast his form to be one of necessity throughout Europe and a great part the cushion, while not a sound disturbed the silence of America. It becomes almost impossible to give the Zoar; then, how did he, in slow and subdued tones, more minute circumstances attending the growth of this ophize the very original cause of ill—the very head valuable and much used tree, as its progress to maturity

A CHANT.

COMPOSED BY A NOBLEMAN, WHO IS A DISTINGUISHED MUSICAL AMATEUR.

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